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Sarah Wheeler during her six-month solo 5500km outback trek on horseback in the town of Nyngan, New South Wales ,

Sarah rode 5500 kilometres on horseback for her parents. This is what she learnt

After losing her mother to gastrointestinal cancer, Sarah Wheeler rode for nine months, talking to people she met along the way about grief.

  • Nick Newling

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Happy result: Norma and Curtis Hancock with Save Our Store campaigners including Christine Mierisch, seated, front right, and Liz Monty, standing left, in green.

Norma is almost 90. She just bought a beloved general store in regional Victoria

The heart of the town of Guildford will beat again when the century-old store reopens this weekend.

  • Carolyn Webb

A country town’s ‘little treasure’ gets a new lease of life

“It was never going to fall down on my watch,” says Alison Wren of the picturesque 115-year-old church in Victoria’s north-east that she has restored.

  • Carolyn Webb
Peta Bradley wearing the racing suit she wore at the World Ice Swimming Championships, on her property in Armatree, NSW.

Peta trains in a frozen cattle trough. She just became a swimming world champion

Hailing from a tiny town in regional NSW, Peta Bradley is an unlikely ice swimming champion. She says the pain is what motivates her.

  • Frances Howe
Exterior of the Guildford Family Hotel in Guildford, country Victoria.

10 of Victoria’s best regional pubs worth planning a road trip around

What’s even better than a long pub lunch? A long pub lunch in the country! These venues are the real deal, with food, drinks and settings worth planning a trip around.

  • Richard Cornish
Jo Lyle competing in the Women’s World Mineral Water Drinking Championship.

Mineral water skolling, gumboot throwing, sausage eating … It’s Glenlyon’s big day out

Quirky, traditional Glenlyon Sports Day has been a New Year’s Day tradition for more than 100 years.

  • Carolyn Webb
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The program has subsidies about 400,000 tickets.

Opposition calls for review of capped airfares program as Karratha flights boom

The program has ballooned in cost from $19 million to more than $100 million over three years.

  • Hamish Hastie
WA Premier Roger Cook, population hits 3 million, main picture. Picture: WAtoday/Cameron Myles

Cook’s vision for the future: WA’s big regional towns are about to get bigger

WA Premier Roger Cook envisioned large regional centres like Bunbury, Port Hedland, Karratha, Albany and Geraldton could eventually develop into major regional hubs.

  • Hamish Hastie
Indigo Shire tourism manager Susannah Doyle

Victorian towns install EV chargers to lure in drivers experiencing ‘range anxiety’

Some councils in tourism hotspots plan to install chargers for electric vehicles in the hope of attracting a growing demographic of tourists.

  • Benjamin Preiss
Dr Lorraine Gordon, chair of the Regional Voices Fund.

Fundraising group takes teal movement to regional Australia

The Regional Voices Fund says it is “on the same page” as Climate 200, the group that catapulted six independent MPs into parliament in 2022.

  • Brook Turner

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