It’s perched thousands of metres above sea level, and when finished will be second only to a toilet block as Australia’s ...

It had been feared for days that fire would spill over the New South Wales-Victoria border in the Snowy Mountains. Forecasts are for more heat, strong winds and dry lightning. In South Australia ...

On 17 October 1949, then prime minister Ben Chifley watched the first blast of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric ... as well as the cradle of Australia's multicultural society.

An ice climber is perched halfway up a frozen waterfall at the base of an amphitheatre of rugged mountain peaks. Beneath his feet is a precarious drop to an icy lake covered in thick snow.

It's one of Australia's greatest engineering achievements of all times: The Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme, in NSW. It covers the size of Switzerland, and for many, it's the birth of ...

Australia plans to build the Snowy 2.0 project ... work has started on a venture that has echoes of the original Snowy Mountains hydro and irrigation scheme in Australia's Great Dividing Range ...

Looking for the best winter holiday in Australia? Do you want to enjoy the winter chill and snow, or are you dying to escape ...

while Women Embrace Hiking Snowy Mountains takes a slower approach, tackling 56 kilometres over six days (from $3265 twin share), with one night in Canberra and four nights in lodges at Lake ...

A southerly cold front overnight brought falling temperatures and snow flurries to the NSW Snowy Mountains and parts ... here is as radical as the rest of Australia," he said.

Local community members and people across the country with a close connection to the heart of the Snowy Mountains have ...