Regional Communities

Victoria Police's new regional training academy in Mildura in the state's north-west will be a full 25-week training program available for up to 25 recruits. 

A young man who could have paid $115 to discard a trailer load of tyres has been fined thousands for illegally dumping them down a mine shaft in a national heritage-listed area — and ordered to clean it up.

A report into the cancelled Byron Bay Bluesfest reveals creditors are unlikely to be repaid the millions of dollars they are owed.

A regional Queensland palliative care facility has been given a new lease on life after receiving two major donations from businesses in Hervey Bay.

Giant cargo airships based in outback Queensland are being pitched as a freight solution for remote Australia, but questions remain about how the project will go ahead.

A brother and sister who grew up near the rural town of Lock on the Eyre Peninsula both received honours over the King's Birthday long weekend. 

A week after Western Australia experienced one of its worst storms in decades, some stretches of coast are crumbling into the ocean at an alarming rate. Millions of dollars' worth of infrastructure is at risk heading into winter.

Gippsland's May Beveridge still plays croquet every week. The 101-year-old may soon be crowned the world's oldest female competitive player.

Etched in Steven Clark's memory are the protruding teeth and moustache of the driver he says picked him up as a teenager — a man he now believes was serial killer Ivan Milat.

A mother's plea on social media turns into a community-wide extravaganza for her 10-year-old son. 

Returning legends of the Finke Desert Race, David Walsh and Travis Robinson, have been crowned Kings of the Desert at the gruelling two-day off-road race, with Walsh winning on bikes for a record-equalling sixth time and Robinson claiming victory on cars.

After three vandalism incidents in three years, cake decorator Ishani Harney says the emotional and financial toll of crime lingers long after the damage is repaired.

A motorbike rider has died in the Central Australian outback after a Finke Desert Race crash, with the two-day event expected to continue as police investigate.

Brian Baker, 95, spent the first 21 years of his life in living quarters at the York Town Hall where his father was caretaker.

Atherton was once named Queensland's tidiest town, but some residents say the main street has become unsightly. Locals have formed a volunteer clean-up crew to restore the Tablelands town to its former glory.

As the NSW ski season gets underway, Jindabyne's Snowy Stitchers Social Club finds connection and mindfulness in needles and yarn.  

The decision to locate Kununurra's new youth centre on an abandoned farm 7km from town has sparked local concerns.

In Queensland's "energy capital", two towns on either side of the same gas fields are feeling the effects very differently.

Residents of the tiny town of Underbool, in Victoria's remote Mallee region, flock to this small coffee van, which has even smaller opening hours.

Data gathered by scientists at a radio observatory in WA's Murchison has resulted in a new "map" detailing the magnetic web of our observable universe.