Arltunga, located in the sandy hills 110 kilometres east of Alice Springs, was Central Australia's first official town. The settlement was born from a gold rush in 1887 and hosted up to 300 people.

Australia is already littered with ghost towns: lifeless versions of once-thriving mining communities that withered and died as long ago as the Gold Rush. Locals were devastated when Rio Tinto ...

It's not the only ghost town on Australian maps. Cook, in far western South Australia, was a railway town that serviced the Trans-Australian Railway and once boasted a hospital and school.

In the last year, I've explored 13 ghost towns across the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. As I wander into abandoned buildings, explore old mining equipment, and search among ruins ...

While shadows in windows, ghost dogs roaming the graveyard ... has long been given the questionable honour of being named Australia’s spookiest town. Growing up in the area, Brent Hilbrink ...

Think of “ghost towns” and images of dusty ... She cites recent examples like wildfires in Hawaii, California and Australia, and floods in Bangladesh, as some of the latest triggers for ...

Of the 20 000 people who once lived in Wittenoom - an outback mining town in Western Australia - at least 1 000 are dead of asbestos-related diseases. Just about everyone else left long ago.