It's freezing cold, scorching hot and a source of Australia's opals. Here's what life's like when you have to jury-rig even the most basic tech to survive. Claire Reilly was a video host, journalist ...

Welcome to Coober Pedy, the town that lives underground. Originally a mining town, many of the residents of Australia's Coober Pedy live in dugouts to escape the heat. During the town's summer months, ...

It started as a single-room dugout in the local postman's garage. Now a three-bedroom attraction with local-legend status, ...

A Riverland man is lucky to be alive after spending 24 hours stuck down a 25m mine shaft in Coober Pedy. The Riverland man, 47, was first reported missing by his wife to Coober Pedy Police on Friday ...

Unlike any other town known as a hole in the ground, Australia’s Coober Pedy really is a hole, and has two kinds of buried treasure. Unlike any other town known as a hole in the ground, Australia’s ...

The Adelaide Fringe has spread its wings to an Outback town where patrons can go mining for gems under the stars with a TV personality. He’s the son of an opal miner from the Outback town, has mined ...

About 70 per cent of the world's opals are chipped out of the ground in Coober Pedy. It's no wonder this South Australian desert town is popular with Hong Kong jewellery dealers, who wander around ...

A late-night search for opals has ended in a frantic rescue, with a man rushed to hospital after falling into a mine shaft. It is understood the man was out fossicking for opals with a group of ...