Hannah McGuire's mum broke down in court while recounting the desperate messages she sent her daughter, believing she had taken her own life.

The NSW Attorney-General is yet to decide on a financial payment, two years after the 58-year-old was pardoned for the deaths of her four children.

A woman who worked alongside accused childcare pedophile Joshua Brown says she made complaints about his behaviour two years before he allegedly sexually abused children.

A second childcare centre in Sydney has gone up in flames just days after another was the target of a firebombing attack. Police are appealing for information after a seven-month old baby drowned at a ...