Rural and Remote Communities

Edwin Foster drives a round-trip of 250 kilometres three times a week for kidney dialysis treatment. He's one of thousands rural Australians travelling long distances for the life-saving treatment.

Exmouth-born Mim Strom's record-breaking AFLW season has earned her plenty of plaudits, but women footballers in her home town are struggling to play competitive footy.

It's not your typical retirement plan but Gavin Smith is in it "boots and all" giving new life to a caravan park in a town he first fell in love with 50 years ago.

As part of the local fire brigade, Harold Proud has helped protect the community of Kulin, south-east of Perth, since arriving in the region in 1947.

Bedridden with rheumatic fever in the 1940s, and having already lost his father to the disease, Ian Braybrook says he owes his life to the big-hearted doctor who treated his family without charge.

Firefighters in outback Queensland have raced against the clock and each other in a series of physical challenges. It's part of a the annual fire trials, dating all the way back to 1924.

When tree-changers Frank and Debbie Wust bought the pub that starred in Crocodile Dundee just over a decade ago, they had no idea it also meant helping to run an outback community.

A police officer says he found a large crowd gathered on a West Australian street after residents had climbed onto a shed roof to escape a "very aggressive" goanna.

Plans lodged with WA's Environmental Protection Authority this month will bring wild transformation to an ancient desert landscape. Experts, who note the proposed scale is "incredible", say the idea has a lot going for it.

Hundreds of Aboriginal people are travelling to Roebourne in Western Australia's north to mourn the death of a senior Yindjibarndi elder.

Wallabies' skipper Harry Wilson had humble beginnings, but his country roots have served him well.

The forest at the tip of Lord Howe Island's highest peak is an otherworldly place alive with animals and plants not found elsewhere on Earth. But it's taken radical action to save it.

With a spoon and an ice-cream container this sheep and salt farmer harvests in her own backyard.

Remote properties on WA's Nullarbor Plain have adopted unofficial time zones — but there's a method behind the "madness".

A royal commission has heard a lack of services vital to collecting evidence of sexual assault in regional South Australia has resulted in some victim-survivors walking away from potential prosecutions of perpetrators.

A spike in doctors training in general practice will end a seven-year decline, but rural communities fear it won't stem a chronic healthcare shortage.

A heavy downpour, hail and lightning which hit "out of nowhere" has left a train of destruction in Newman and the SES is warning residents to be prepared for similar weather events this wet season.

After a long period of administration, the Barkly Regional Council has welcomed a new mayor with a fresh vision for Tennant Creek and surrounds, along with 12 other newly elected members. 

Bruce McGowan felt privileged to hold his wife Belinda as she died, and now wants all palliative care patients to have the option to be close to loved ones at the end of their life.

It's often more than 40 degrees when this group of runners hits the track for its weekly run meet. The group's members say running in a collective is the best way to exercise in the outback heat.