Tim Lee

Six Australian butchers have claimed third place at the World Butchers' Challenge in Paris, creating high-end retail displays in front of a packed stadium crowd.

Rice farmers have opened a $10 million mill, breaking a century-long monopoly and positioning themselves to process and sell different varieties.

Identical twins Alistair and Alex Macdonald came to Australia at 16 through the Big Brother Movement in 1955. They returned this year to the Blighty farm where their new life began 70 years ago.

The end of logging in Victoria may have inadvertently put the state's Alpine forests at risk. 

Bushfires and a lack of seed have created a "ticking time bomb" in Victoria's alpine and mountain ash forests, scientists are warning. 

In 1882, drover Wallace Caldwell led the longest sheep drive in Australian history, but his story was almost lost to time.  

For 150 years, the Letts family has run Donald's local newspaper, and at 95, editor Robin Letts is still leading the newsroom. 

Naturally coloured wool, the brainchild of a farmer in the 1970s, is used by craft enthusiasts around the world to be fashioned into all manner of things.

Ararat, like most regional towns, has an ageing population and a drift of young people to the cities. But a migrant resettlement program is reinvigorating the town.

Rural residents and local councils are deeply unhappy with new taxes, renewable energy, bad roads and mining companies, accusing the state government of "city centric" policymaking.