Multiple Australian companies are pioneering the country's electric aviation industry. So how are green planes powered, how safe are they, and what will it cost?

For people living in some of the nation's most remote and disadvantaged communities, a weekly air delivery service is a lifeline, delivering food, medical supplies — and online shopping purchases.

The owner of a major timber mill in regional South Australia says it will be shut until Monday while authorities investigate the death of a long-time worker at the site.

After giving up fish and sheep farming, Philippa Noble now grows and harvests timber for "$2,000 a tree". With a national timber shortage, could farm forestry be the way forward?

After two days of silence, Commonwealth Bank was the first of the "big four" banks to lift interest rates on its variable mortgages by 0.5 percentage points — in an uncharacteristically slow response to the Reserve Bank's rate hike on Tuesday.

Thousands of residents and businesses across the Central Tablelands have been without gas for more than a week, but communities are working together to ensure no-one is going without food.

It's taken five years to build, $293 million and 2 kilometres of beer lines, but North Queensland finally has a new stadium in the heart of Townsville's struggling CBD.

The debate over height restrictions for developments along the coast of a regional Queensland town is back in the spotlight, but now the decision could be up to the state government.

A major grain handler has raked in an 100 per cent jump in revenue but fortunes are far more bleak for NSW farmers trying to salvage crops from flood disaster. 

Prawn lovers in New South Wales are facing higher-than-normal prices this Christmas as the drought takes its toll on the commercial fishing industry.

The Reserve Bank increases interest rates for the fourth month in a row, raising its cash rate target by half a percentage point.

The University of Tasmania has said there is room to reconsider the location of its new STEM building, in a major walking back of its city-centric campus push..

Australian shares rise on Monday, while Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese was sworn in as the country's 31st prime minister after nine years of rule by the conservative Coalition.

Planned work on a Victorian transmission line will be delayed following SA's power station fire.

Optus is hit by a cyber attack that compromises customer information. Customers' names, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses have been exposed.

Western Australia's government calls time on its involvement in coal power, declaring the state will exit the market before 2030 and plough billions of dollars into renewable energy and storage.

In the midst of a global grape glut, it might be a case of go niche or go broke. Peter Valeri is pinning his hopes on grapes linked to his Italian heritage.

Cockles — or "kuti" — have been a staple in the diet of Ngarrindjeri families for tens of thousands of years, and now they are getting involved in the business of shuffling for the in-demand mollusc.

Billions more will be committed to building new homes in next week's federal budget, as the government chases a promise to build 1.2 million by the end of the decade.

The WA Nationals leader declares only his party has a viable plan to repair the deficit and debt plaguing the state's finances, labelling the major political parties' budget strategies flawed and doomed to fail.

Thousands of people have trekked through mud deep enough to lose a gumboot in to see big-name musicians at a free flood relief concert in devastated Northern NSW.

Jenny Craig's Australian and New Zealand operations will immediately stop trading after administrators failed to find a buyer for the weight-loss company's physical stores.

A new ASIC report says banks aren't doing what the law says they must do to help customers in trouble, as the proportion of borrowers in strife rises due to high interest rates, rocketing rents and increases in the cost of living. 

The price of a discount domestic ticket has risen by 56 per cent since late 2020, and flights are fuller than ever, according to the consumer watchdog.

In The Successor, Paddy Manning tells the intriguing story of a man who at once is one of the world's most prominent media barons, but who also actively shuns the spotlight.