World number one's Gordon Reid, Jiske Griffioen and Dylan Alcott should all be household names, yet few people seem to even know about the Australian Open Wheelchair Championships.
There are calls to expand free meal services across Darwin, after a charity's ad-hoc breakfast program evolves into a first aid and welfare initiative for the homeless, sick and abused.
Emergency crews digging into an avalanche-slammed hotel are cheered by the discovery of three puppies who survived for days under tonnes of snow, giving them new hope for the 22 people still missing in the disaster.
Sydney Story Factory director Dr Catherine Keenan prepares to pass the baton as Australia's Local Hero and reflects on a year of helping students express themselves through writing and storytelling.
With Tasmania's proximity to Antarctica, it is no surprise that it's a popular posting for penguins. Here are some tips on where you can see them in the wild.
In January 1997 the Clown Doctors became regular visitors at the Sydney Children's Hospital at Randwick, bringing sick kids the best medicine of all — laughter.
Glass bottles, cigarettes, a shoe innersole, car bumpers and 500 metres of fishing line are just some of the items volunteer 'scavengers' picked up on the ocean floor and at Bondi Beach at the weekend.
A $250 million funding boost by the Federal Government to the nation's organ donation system has seen a 16 per cent increase in the number of Australians deciding to donate their organs.
Some centenarians share their secrets to a long and happy life, as a study finds people aged 100 years and older need less home care than "near centenarians" aged 95 to 99.
Introducing a new sport to a country on the brink of collapse in an attempt to provide new hope to an entire generation is an ambitious project, but that's what happened in the Solomon Islands with futsal, and now it is the country's de facto national sport.
Homeless people on Brisbane's northside will be offered free haircuts to help them feel welcome in the community thanks to a $73,000 mobile barbershop.
Remote villagers in Papua New Guinea will no longer need to travel for days in canoes to access lifesaving medical treatment, thanks to the the help of Samaritan Aviation's "flying ambulance".
As tennis fans prepare for the Australian Open next week, they are hanging their hopes on a new crop of young players, including teenage prodigies Lizette Cabrera and Destanee Aiava, to boost the country's waning success internationally.
A Queensland medical graduate who was left quadriplegic after a car accident says being offered a place as an intern at the Gold Coast University Hospital is "incredible and surreal".
"I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy" says a man in outback Queensland who endured blistering sun and heavy rain to set the world record for the longest continuous game of lawn bowls and raise vital funds for his club.
Fire and Rescue NSW Commissioner Greg Mullins is hanging up his helmet after 39 years with a service he's helped shape into one that sees itself as a family.
When Australian retiree Ray Ingram heard the sad story of a Thai classical guitarist forced to sell her prized instruments to pay for her dying mother's medical treatment, he decided to donate his vintage guitar.
A young Darwin-based artist turns to painting swirling and colourful Dreaming stories onto handbags as part of a bid to create "wearable art" sold independently from art dealers.
Millions of people across Australia party into the New Year, after farewelling 2016 beneath night skies set ablaze with colour by stunning fireworks displays. See the best from around the country here.
