Independent retailers are struggling to get fuel from the majors and say farmers have only responded to soaring prices and lack of availability ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A remote Australian town that will soon lose its only doctor is offering a salary of up to 680,000 Australian dollars ($428,000), plus free rent and a car, to attract a new ...

Australia is investing billions of dollars less in healthcare for people living in rural areas than for those living in cities. Moreover, the spending gap is growing, thus contributing to worsening ...

Around half of Australian aged care homes are losing money, prompting concerns about their long-term financial viability and the potential for closures – particularly in the country. Aged care homes ...

That’s according to the National Rural Health Alliance’s chief executive Susi Tegen, whose comments come as the Senate prepares to examine the access, and funding, that rural, regional and remote ...

Since the 1980s, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has sent emissaries to some of the most remote places on earth — including these places in the outback. MELBOURNE (JTA) — Ruth Hannah has lived in the ...

SYDNEY, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Authorities on Saturday urged thousands of people in Australia's Queensland state to evacuate as bushfires that have destroyed at least 30 homes continued to threaten rural ...