Even in Australia, Porepunkah is a town few would have heard of before this week. Fewer still could pronounce it. Nestled at the base of densely wooded mountains in the Australian Alps, it is home to ...

A German backpacker who survived 11 nights in the Australian bush described on Monday how she got lost and confused after crashing her car. Carolina Wilga, 26, was found on a scarcely used track in ...

Temperatures in parts of Melbourne exceeded 45 deg C. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rocky outcrop holds an Aboriginal shelter of significance in the Pilbara region of Western Australia SYDNEY (Reuters) -Parts of ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian police battled wintry weather on Wednesday as they searched alpine bushland for a "heavily armed" gunman who allegedly shot dead two officers and injured another at a ...

Bundled in a little blanket on a plush couch, Valerie doesn't quite look like a dog who recently survived more than 17 months in the Australian wilderness. She's nestled between her two owners, ...

The heatwave is the worst seen in Victoria, since the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires that killed 173 people, and is not expected to ease until the weekend.

Rescued German backpacker Carolina Wilga had been last seen on June 29 arriving in a Mitsubishi van at a general store in the small agricultural community of Beacon ...