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WA's environmental watchdog has taken the unusual step of reopening public consultation to Woodside's $30 billion Browse joint venture project after the company modified its proposal.

Scientists are testing Charles Darwin's theory on species diversity by analysing Kentia palm varieties that have grown side by side for 1 million years.

Prolonged drought conditions and increasing production costs are compelling farmers to reduce their flocks, leaving shearers struggling to find work. 

The site of a regional social housing project promised seven years ago has become a squat for the homeless in Bendigo, Victoria.

Women across the Northern Territory say they've been "robbed of choice" ahead of the NT's only private maternity ward closing.

Trump's threat of 100 per cent tariffs on all movies produced outside the US could have major ramifications for numbers of films produced in regional Australia - particularly on the Gold Coast.

Today on the show we take a look at what the election result means for regional Australia and how it will be represented in a drastically different federal parliament.

The gap between the city and the country, when it comes to health outcomes for residents and their ability to access healthcare services, is wide. Despite this, regional health has not featured as a major issue this election.   

A third of Australians on the electoral roll have already voted. At nearly 5 million Australians, that's a record.

Life in the electorate seat of Braddon, covering Tasmania's north-west and west coast, plus the dairy farming King Island, can be tough.Unemployment is high. The population of once thriving mining towns like Zeehan are at the mercy of a drive-in drive-out and fly-in fly-out workforce and mines stopping production.

The result in Gilmore was the closest in the country at the 2022 federal election, with Labor's Fiona Phillips holding onto the seat by just 373 votes.

The seat of Lingiari is vast and takes in 99 per cent of the Northern Territory, excluding Darwin. For decades its been a safe Labor seat, but at the last election the gap narrowed and now the coalition are hopeful they can secure Lingiari for the first time. 

A $7 billion costing blowout means that Queensland hospital beds will be delayed, just one of many problems facing the health sector in regional Australia.

In the seat of Wannon, voters are focused on offshore wind farms, rundown roads and a lack of childcare places

What matters to voters in Australia's newest electorate? 

Outback tourism operators say they're seeing a slow start to the season because travellers are staying away, worried about flooding.

Not only is the Superb fairy-wren beautiful to look out, science has found that the chatter of these beautiful little birds reveal their personalities.

As the world faces economic uncertainty thanks to Donald Trump's tariffs, many in WA's Goldfields region are celebrating soaring prices for the precious metal. 

The true devastation of the flooding in outback Queensland is starting to hit home for residents, and some locals are angry their towns didn't have the infrastructure to properly prepare for the deluge. 

Residents are finally able to return to flood-ravaged towns in outback Queensland, but in parts of South Australia and Victoria, pine forests are dying due to drought.