It took less than 48 hours for the author of a 50-year-old message in a bottle to be found on the other side of the world, after being discovered on a remote South Australian beach this week.

The vulnerable species breeds year-round in captivity and arid zones but a study of re-introduced populations on the Eyre Peninsula suggests that may not be the case in southern parts of Australia.

The author of a 50-year-old message in a bottle, which was recently found washed up on a remote SA beach, resorts to more modern means to express his delight at the discovery to its finder.

Fishing for snapper in South Australia may be banned until 2023 to allow "decimated" populations to recover. The Government says if urgent steps are not taken, the iconic species could vanish from the state altogether.

The shrinking town of Poochera is pinning its hopes of survival on a big statue and a prehistoric ant, and locals say their plan may just be enough to save their home from dying out completely.

A plan to probe the Great Australian Bight for gas and oil using seismic testing is delayed, with the company behind the move confirming its testing will be postponed until next year.

An ambitious plan to power every property on SA's Eyre Peninsula with solar has been labelled an Australian first but is it too good to be true?

The South Australian Government is considering providing council rate relief to drought-affected farmers as the state opposition claims that South Australia is way behind other state support.

A disease is wreaking havoc on Australian beehives, and one PhD student and beekeeper is trying to find out why.

A surprise collection of 1,300 lots of Holden and other memorabilia, including 120 cars, secreted away by a South Australian panelbeater has gone under the hammer.

IBM is hiring 10 employees with autism at its Client Innovation Centre in Ballarat, joining the growing trend of neurodiversity programs in the workplace.

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.

A new report by La Trobe University finds 80 per cent of teachers have experienced some form of student or parent bullying or harassment over the past nine to 12 months.

A four-year study into faith communities has found Muslims experience acts of violence on an individual basis like no other religious adherents.

Australia will import foreign-grown grain for the first time since 2007, after the Department of Agriculture approved a permit to import bulk wheat from Canada.

A mother-daughter duo from Central Victoria documents the wide variety of flowers in Australian artwork in a new book.

You don't need to travel to the South Pole to get a perfect photo of the green and pink lights of the aurora australis there's incredible vantage points right here in our own backyard.

The family of a woman who was sexually assaulted in aged care calls for better protection of vulnerable nursing home patients, as a former aged care worker is sentenced to one month in jail.

Australia's largest integrated battery and solar farm in Victoria's north can power 16,000 homes. It was officially opened today.

A Victorian man is expected to be charged with the manslaughter of his 35-year-old partner Shae Francis, who was last seen when she visited her mother at the Hervey Bay Hospital in October.

Footage from a Victorian poultry farm, released by animal activists, appears to show workers stretching the necks of chickens and throwing them onto a concrete floor.

Bus drivers used to receive respectful thanks at the end of a quiet ride, but these days some say they work in fear of being punched, stabbed, screamed at or spat on.

With only one in four Australians staying with the same employer for 10 years or more, there is a call for a national portable long service leave scheme in Australia.

A man in his 40s suffers non-life-threatening injuries after he is allegedly assaulted by a young person at the Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre in central Victoria.

As more children are diagnosed with both anorexia and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), experts call for more research to come up with better treatment and support.

A Melbourne court is told Phillip Galea was preparing a document which he hoped would lead to "thousands upon thousands" of terrorist acts because of a perceived threat from Muslims and the political left.

A northern Victorian man has walked free after 21 months in custody after he was found not guilty of murdering a man with a machete on Boxing Day two years ago on grounds of self-defence.

An autoimmune disease that has robbed textile artist Annemieke Mein of her sense of touch will not stop the ecologist, collector, researcher, and activist.

Energy Australia finds a unit controller at the Yallourn power station, Graeme Edwards, 54, was doing nothing wrong when he was fatally injured performing a routine task in November last year.

From sky-high water costs to prohibitively expensive livestock feed, new forecasts show how drought will impact Australia's exports and agricultural production.

Traditional custodian at the Aboriginal Trust in Lake Tyers Victoria, Wayne Thorpe, is learning as much about the traditional science and stories of the stars as he can.

An Indian Catholic priest who claims parents' adultery and masturbation causes autism in children, and who claims to have "cured" autism through prayer, cancels a series of religious retreats in Australia.

A sergeant at a rural Victorian police station has been committed to stand trial over an alleged assault in an interview room.

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.

Australia is the last inhabited continent on Earth that is free of the varroa mite, a parasite which has crippled honey bees everywhere it has taken hold. The threat is real but our beekeepers are preparing to meet it head on.

An offshore wind farm proposed for regional Victoria will power almost a fifth of the state's electrical needs, but coastal residents says they are concerned about rising costs and fishing exclusion zones.

Victoria's Environment Protection Authority finds 5 litres of dye from a Brooklyn company caused the discolouration of Melbourne's Stony Creek but the chemical content has not been confirmed.

In true Australian style a jubilant Jack Miller celebrates the first podium finish from a local rider on Phillip Island in seven years by performing a shoey.

Nanofabrica, an Israel-based developer of precision additve manufacturing technologies, has announced the commercial launch of its micro-level resolution AM technology.

Saudi Arabia's Elite for Construction & Development Company has purchased what has been described as the world's largest 3D construction printer from Danish firm Cobod International.

3D Hubs, an online marketplace for 3D printing services, today announced that it has raised $18 million to expand services abroad.

Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering announced that NASA has awarded a three-year, $5.2 million contract to its National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence

German conglomerate thyssenkrupp will build an Additive Manufacturing TechCenter Hub in Singapore in 2019.