Lifestyle

It's that time of year when you may have found yourself searching for how to clean the clothes you only wear during winter. Look no further — here's what an expert has to say.

TikTokers using an AI fat filter effect is having a damaging effect on people.

Living aboard a boat has many advantages, offering residents a sense of community, security and a flexible lifestyle. For this reason, some women are giving up their homes on land to live on the water.

Health, wealth — and affordable housing were at the forefront of the minds of West Australians the ABC spoke to relaxing by Scarborough Beach on the first day of 2025. 

Hours from the mainland and in the middle of the ocean, Ruby Holmes and Heinrich Breuer are raising their son on the Great Barrier Reef.

Every year I quit Instagram just before Christmas. A month-long break stops me from going into comparison mode as my family settles in for a holiday at home. 

Bernie Millar says delays to her bushfire recovery have taught her a lot about patience, building codes, and the power of staying positive.

The caravan park is the lifeblood of Groper Creek, but keeping it running 24/7 has been a rollercoaster journey for friends Jeanette Garvey and Wendy Coplick. 

Oleander Glenie is a trans man from Adelaide/Tarntanya, who shares what it was like being diagnosed with autism in his 20s.

Celeste and Anna knew their plan to design a house without a single white surface, filled with bold splashes of colour, was daring. What they didn't expect was the impact the blue, yellow and red rooms would have on their moods.

Riley and Lachlan Hughes bucked the trend when they left the treadmill of their careers to become full-time market gardeners.

At the edge of the Pacific Ocean in North Queensland a community of aircraft enthusiasts are building their homes and lives metres from a commercial airfield. They say it is the best decision they have ever made.

He's a junior doctor in the public hospital system, completing specialty training in psychiatry, but Ben Bravery took an "unusual path" to medicine. Here's what he's learnt about unwinding along the way. 

After 25 years, there's a changing of the guard on Gabo Island as one lighthouse keeper retires and hands the keys to his replacement, in a tradition spanning 160 years.

Lake Nash Station, one of the oldest cattle runs in the country, was cut off for months by floods in 2023 —but it's bounced back and is now preparing to be flooded by schoolies. 

With the rising cost of living, many Australians can’t afford a gym membership. We spoke to an exercise physiologist and a personal trainer about the best ways to stay active at home, including what equipment you need, and how to write and progress your own program.

An increasing number of Chinese youths fed up with the pressures and values of urban life are moving to China's vast countryside and transforming it in their own ways. 

Tourist numbers in WA's north are dropping back to pre-pandemic levels, which operators blame partly on a delay to upgrades at a key airport that would open the way to more direct flights.

A pair of Cairns women have pushed, pulled and shouldered a wheelbarrow to the summit of Africa's highest mountain, in what is believed to be a world first.

Many of the risk factors for dementia – being female, growing older and the genetic lottery — cannot be avoided. But research is uncovering a growing list of ways to cut your risk.