A career in live export introduced former grazier Matt Simmons to Latin America, and the "slower pace of life" was incentive enough to move his family of seven across the Pacific.

With tourism numbers plummeting as a result of the recent East Gippsland fires, Lakes Entrance businesses hope for an Australia Day resurgence.

The cocaine trade stripped thousands of hectares of Amazon rainforest to grow coca. But inspired by traditional methods and feeling threatened by climate change, a small group of Colombian farmers are fighting back, writes Luke Taylor.

The ABC is given a flyover of the fire ground above the New South Wales Southern Highlands, about 100 kilometres south-west of Sydney. Before the fires, there has always been one constant in this lush landscape: green. But not anymore.

Severe storms carrying heavy rain, wind and hail have hit the outer suburbs of Melbourne as firefighters are pulled from fire-affected areas where rain and wind has caused flash flooding and is likely to topple trees and create landslides .

Police confirm an 84-year-old man injured in the Cobargo bushfire on December 31 has died in hospital.

Police are called in the middle of the night after a large hole opens up on a suburban road at Sunshine Beach.

Conor McGregor makes a spectacular return to the octagon, demolishing Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone in just 40 seconds in Las Vegas.

In a case echoing the Melbourne Storm's salary cap scandal that saw them stripped of two premierships, English club Saracens is being booted out of top-flight rugby union after rorting the salary cap for three seasons, during which they won two titles.

Even the winning captain in the BBL's Sydney derby is wondering if cricket needs to rethink its method for deciding rain-affected Twenty20 matches.

When I was asked to join the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs cheer squad as a gonzo journalism assignment, my editor was expecting I'd produce a piece of feminist snark — and to be honest, so did I, writes Emma Jane.