Homes with architectural designs that cost just $1 near completion

Lightning Ridge is a town divided by car parts, disputed facts and a history as elusive as the precious black opal mined here.

Tasmanian data centre proponents would self-administer their own community benefit funds under a proposal from the state government.

The ripple effect of today's outage is expected to last for weeks, with some companies simply unable to do business.

Hundreds of cattle from a remote station in the Northern Territory have been exported to Kazakhstan by plane.