Council worker Brandon Hawkins was watering trees in the incredibly rural town of Laverton this week when he thought his eyes ...

A man has been arrested following a fatal crash that claimed the life of a Queensland woman near Kimba last Friday.

It was Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice, about an English woman's survival of Japanese prisoner camps in World War II and her journey to the Australian outback.The story made a deep impression on my ...

Mining can be thirsty work. And in South Australia's outback, mining giant BHP uses more than 33 million litres of water a day at its Olympic dam site. That water comes from the Great Artesian Basin - ...