An inquest has heard the heartbreaking steps a surfer took to avoid a shark attack while in Australian waters.

Before the fictional story of a killer shark terrorizing a sleepy beach town, there was the very real summer of 1916 at the ...

Luis Alvarez, the hero who saved a little girl from a shark attack in Boca Grande, now finds himself facing deportation. The ...

A man in his early 20s was bitten in the lower leg by a shark near Bean Point on the north end of Anna Maria Island on Sunday.

Emily Smith is a multi-platform journalist based in Launceston, Tasmania. She previously worked for the ABC in Esperance, West Australia, Darwin in the Northern Territory and for newspapers in ...