“The Squad” gets a lot of media attention, but they are just one part of the record number of women elected to Congress in 2018. In fact, it was the most diverse freshman class ever elected: the first Muslim women representatives ever, the first Native women, the first two Latina members from Texas, two black women from New England, and the two youngest members ever elected to the House of Representatives.

The Canadian stock market got off to a bright start Friday morning and was holding firm a little past noon, riding on gains in consumer discretionary, financial and energy sections.

After coming under pressure early in the session, stocks have regained some ground over the course of morning trading on Monday. The major averages have bounced well off their lows of the session, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq climbing into positive territory.

The U.S. dollar exhibited weakness against its peers on Thursday, reacting to data on private sector employment for the month of April, and unemployment claims in the week ended May 1.

Some rock 'n' roll groups will go to great heights for an eye-catching record jacket.

Atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe and sustainable energy economist Mark Jaccard join host Chris Hall to talk about how to talk about climate change. Plus, we speak with Donald Savoie, scholar of Canadian public administration, about his magnum opus Democracy in Canada: The Disintegration of Our Institutions, and discuss tackling social isolation with Baroness Diana Barran, the U.K.’s "minister of loneliness".

A six-year-old boy dies after being struck by a car in the carpark of a popular sporting ground in Perth's south.

There's nothing like watching someone fly through the air, land on their feet and follow it up with a classic slapstick routine worthy of Laurel & Hardy, to make you feel about seven again.

Drought-stricken Queensland farmers are worried about where their underground water is going as a new report questions the impact of a controversial coal mine.

The headstones at Broken Hill's cemetery tell the story not only of the city's colourful history, but the progression of workers' rights.

When the daytime temperature gets above 50 degrees Celsius, living in the cool underground holds huge appeal.

A man has been charged with committing an indecent act while he was sitting near a children's playground in Albany.

Rowing machines and online coaching are keeping these teenage rowers motivated amid the coronavirus shutdown, and their coaches say many are even achieving personal best times.

Zulya is a singing, guitar playing, native of Tartazan in Russia

Hiking huts are Australia's answer to Scotland's famed bothies and New Zealand's backcountry shacks and stand as a testament of a national identity that has long been intertwined with survival in isolation.

Formed millions of years ago and hidden from sight, Australia's precious underground water reserves are becoming a new battleground in the fight for water.

These fairground ponies have seen brighter days. They wait in the dry grass for a new generation of children to climb aboard and giggle with delight.

Copier Jam is a new exhibition at the Childers Art Space. It brings the underground world of self-published zines out of the bedroom and into the light.

What would it mean to live in "a story-less world where our rich literary traditions no longer existed, and have been excised from memory"?

A remote Central Australian community will trial a technology that boosts supplies of drinking water using solar power and air, after battling water security issues for several years.

Star gazers are marvelling at Jupiter

Meet the determined young women who are working to break down barriers in the community and workforce, refusing to be defined by a stereotype.

Background checks on people suspected of having a history of domestic violence introduced in South Australia last year are already helping to save lives, a domestic violence support service says.

Analysts are calling for calm as a series of false starts, delays and lay-offs look set to destabilise Western Australia's burgeoning multi-billion-dollar lithium industry.

A controversial underground coal gasification project could tender for an SA Government electricity supply contract formerly held by a renewable energy project.

Outback drillers find water 90 metres below the surface of SA's APY Lands in an underground valley millions of years old and remote communities are hoping it will provide a much-needed economic boost.

Ian Rowland finds nearly sinking the triumphant Australia II on a 1980s advertising shoot is a far cry from marketing organically grown garlic.

New legal advice suggests Australia's water suppliers may have no legal basis to add fluoride.

An innovative plan to flood a fireground is being employed on the NSW mid-north coast to extinguish a fire that has been burning for more than six weeks.

Three-year-old Chase has come ahead in leaps and bounds in this past year, his family credits a program giving kids like him free access to early learning.

Ground-penetrating radar technology has discovered multiple unmarked graves at an old Aboriginal mission cemetery in south-west Victoria.

A Victorian water authority bows to pressure and abandons plans to pump more groundwater from an area where it caused major environmental degradation.

A GPS clock rollover, which experts predicted would have little impact because of years of advance notice, causes the grounding of the Bureau of Meteorology's weather balloons.

Aviation authorities ground an Australian-made aircraft that Swedish investigators believe may have broken up mid-flight in Sweden, leading to the deaths of nine people.

Sydney Underground Film Festival's Stefan Popescu guides CJ through this year's stuff.