The Sydney Youth Orchestras travelled to this tiny town to help inspire the local kids, but when they left, they were the ones who felt changed.

Not found anywhere else on Earth, a skink considered functionally extinct has been found in a national park in far west NSW.

From roadhouses to stations, outback workers are losing their jobs as tourists stay away. Skyrocketing fuel prices, as well as concerns around the availability of fuel in remote locations, are causing a 76 per cent loss of revenue for tourist-dependent businesses.

For more than a decade Aussie farmer Stuart Barden has called Kenya home, after initially travelling there as part of an agricultural scholarship, he saw what others didn't - hidden potential. 

Australia's weather is expected to shift rapidly, thanks to the probable emergence of an El Niño, meaning drought, extreme heat and bushfires could be on the way.

The NSW Central West has been hit by the largest earthquake ever recorded in the region.

North-west Victorian farmers are pushing for the completion of the Murray Basin Rail Project, more than seven years after it was originally slated to be finished.