A council in South Australia's Mallee region is planning to build and sell affordable homes in an unusual and hands-on approach to combatting the region's housing crisis. Karoonda's housing crisis has ...

Roger Smith is the author of Australian Geographic’s Treading Lightly column. Roger has a long background in nature conservation, citizen science, wildlife tourism and energy-efficient housing. Now, ...

A serious decline in mobile phone coverage in recent months has left farmers and residents living in South Australia's rural Mallee region to call for more reliable service, especially in times of ...

Residents in the Mallee region will need to prepare for October 2 to be a total fire ban day, the CFA has said. The organisation made the declaration on October 1 after they said conditions in the ...

Authorities say they've worked to contain several large bushfires in Victoria's northwest, but some are still burning. In the Mallee region, fire has burnt through 90,000 hectares in national parks ...

Fire authorities have given the all-clear for the bushfires in Victoria's Mallee region which began almost a month ago. Bushfires continuing to burn in Victoria's Mallee region are finally under ...

Move slowly and quietly in this specialist Australian arid habitat and you might be rewarded by seeing one of the world’s rarest birds. I’d like to share a childhood experience I had with a malleefowl ...