The Snohomish blogger and Instagram influencer shares warm and cozy holiday decorating tips from her new book.

TODAY WE PAUSE briefly to tip the cap to Mother Earth — or, more specifically, to the people plugging away at the day-to-day jobs of saving her life. People in the Northwest have a particular stake in Earth Day, a now-global event celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. The very first one was organized by […]

Dierks Bentley and his band tapped into a long tradition of comedy and country music when they created a parody group to open for them on tour. Now, Hot Country Knights has a debut album.

Sports teams can’t always count on winning games. That means marketing becomes the other player on the roster. A lesson the Toronto Raptors took straight to the bank.

RN Drive's Country Drive ploughs through some of the most important news of the week from rural and regional Australia.

Family giving foster children a 'station life' growing up on outback property, the 'tough mob' of women running a remote country town, growing the native citrus known as 'bush caviar', macadamia growers open farm to tourists with an onsite cafe.

Meet the dog on the frontline of defence against African Swine Fever, and rejoice with Menindee locals as water finally reaches their parched lakes.

Indigenous fishermen revive net fishing tradition; working dogs sniff out farm jobs for young owners; family of toymakers bringing joy of traditional toys to new generation; outback horse race goes ahead without spectators.

This week we find out how COVID-19 is affecting the highly mobile force of international backpackers; dive deeper on the price hikes for fruit and veg; and give a round of applause to businesses changing what they do to help fight the disease.

Green sea turtle returns to the wild after being nursed to good health; compassionate community finds forgiveness for accidental fire starter; the story behind quirky roadside mailboxes; and farmer comes up with crafty contraptions to reduce back-breaking load.

This week we hear about the changes we want to keep post coronavirus; why veggie seedlings and seeds are selling out and will more Australians look to farm work as job losses increase?

Smoke-tainted wine grapes helping feed wildlife; spectacular sunflower crop brightening drought affected landscape; residents of rural village preparing to rebuild homes after devastating fires; tips on life in isolation from couple who have called remote island home for more than 30 years.

This week we welcome water down the Darling River, all the way to Pooncarie; the panic buying of mince has now led to heavy discounting; and let's spend some hours on the road with the nation's busiest drivers - truckies.

Woodworker teaching others how to make 18th century style chairs by hand; ancient art of blacksmithing helping farming family find a way through drought; traditional shoemaker embracing slow fashion to produce bespoke items, grandfather passing on skills of tanning trade to his granddaughter.

This week we find out what it is to be flexitarian; discover the precautions farmers are taking to keep their workforce safe amid coronavirus; and learn how a vegetable could become part of your sunscreen.

Meet the passionate people preserving relics of the past in regional Australia. Whether it's old houses, churches, trucks, or trains, we'll introduce some of those undertaking painstaking restoration work to bring beauties of the past back to life.

This week how the closure of restaurants is hurting other boutique business; and butchers are bouncing back after a rush on meat.

Feeding the village, tourist town helping residents get by with hampers of good grub; wildlife sanctuary staff making sure animals get lots of attention during lockdown; bustling market falls quiet as stalls stripped back to bare essentials, end of an era as nuns leave former convent, turned ecology site.

This week we find out why Australia wants a review of wet markets; why farmers can't get their tractors repaired and how agriculture is hitting its sweet spot.

Finding fossils in underground cave dig; street artist turning country town into open air art gallery; friends turn super sleuths to solve historic mystery; tricks to growing tasty tomatoes on huge trellises.

This week we find out why the US meat industry is in coronavirus chaos; hear the Belgian potato industry's cry for frites; and discover why this Mothers' Day will be a great one for flower growers.

Floodwaters more than 50 kilometres wide came through Queensland's Channel Country earlier this year, but the extended weather forecast is not promising a return to average rainfalls.

Floodwaters that crippled North Queensland's cattle industry have turned the Channel Country further downstream into a landscape of dramatic contrasts.

Dane Greenstreet served for 17 years as a soldier. On discharge he faced a battle of isolation. That all changed when he joined his local RSL.

Jenny Han finds herself in the thick of country life, despite social distancing, after moving from the city to kickstart her career.

A country football club in South Australia is waiting to find out if it will be penalised for allowing a woman to play in the men's competition.

A six-week suspension handed down to South Australian footballer Casey McElroy is proving deeply divisive, with a female sporting great, a former test cricketer and the state's Minister for Sport criticising it as excessive.

Brooke Littlewood was facing a two-month wait for a regional psychologist when she decided to create a series of beer coasters for others who may be struggling.

A little country school in South Australia's south-east provided an instrument for every student and the results have been "joyful".

Not many music festivals would encourage fans to get naked for their events, but the Gympie Music Muster in south-east Queensland is doing just that.

Where aspiring artists often leave home to pursue a career in a big city, this group of young Indigenous artists from western NSW have made the choice to stay on country to make and sell their art.

The WA Local Government Association (WALGA) says it is hopeful regional councils which lost a combined $20 million in previously allocated funds will be given a State Government reprieve.

A group of men from the Military Brotherhood motorcycle club are riding from Brisbane to Perth, and back again, to raise money for a charity that supports the families of fallen veterans.

What does it take to prepare for a pandemic? Many hospitals around the world are already overwhelmed by patients infected with COVID-19. Australian doctors and nurses are bracing for something most of them have never faced before. In our country hospitals, resources are already stretched: beds are in short supply and there’s a greater proportion of older people. Preparation will, in many cases, be the difference between life and death.
 ABC National Regional Reporter Jess Davis takes us inside the Wimmera Base Hospital in Horsham, Victoria, as the team tries to prepare for the unimaginable.

Many parents across the country are helping their children learn from home for the first time ever, but one man who has been home educating for years warns some parents might not like what they see.

Army veteran Johnny Hoarau is well known for rescuing donkeys and horses, and says caring for the animals gives him a purpose and them a home.

It started with a "scratchy throat", but now almost every day at Newmarch House brings another death — here's what we know about the nursing home at the centre of a massive coronavirus outbreak.

Coronavirus deaths decrease in New York but rise everywhere else in the country.

New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian says school size matters when it comes to planning students' return.

This quietly powerful examination of one man's life is a sad indictment on a modern nation struggling to reconcile with the customs and culture of the original custodians.

Communities in the grip of drought are doing everything they can to keep their local kindergartens from shutting down, but they fear they're running out of options.

On her country mail run Jocelyn Flint delivers letters, boxes of wine, flat pack queen-size beds, asthma puffers and even biscuits for morning tea and she's a welcome sight in Tasmania's coronavirus hotspot.

The modern motoring experience is one of self-parking vehicles, multi-storey car parking complexes and stacking systems, but in many Australian country towns, reverse angle parking remains.

The first corroboree at a New South Wales city in more than 150 years has united generations while acknowledging deep concerns about climate change and drought.

Memories of sporting glory, last-minute comebacks, old friendships and rivalries are hidden in plain sight behind a few coats of paint.

The shooting of Nambour director Chris Sun's fourth horror epic is underway in the small country town of Kandanga in the Mary Valley. If you are lucky enough to pass through the one street hamlet in the next month you will see some of Australia's finest actors. ABC Sunshine Coast spoke to a few of them about the experience.

The 2015 Gympie Muster has come to a close with some of the biggest acts in Australian country music taking to the stage in sometimes the soaking rain. But with additions of popular acts like Sheppard, is the festival drifting away from its country roots?

Every year at the start of spring the streets of Port Pirie are filled with the colour, sounds and sights of a festival with its roots in a medieval Italian fishing community.