Urban Development and Planning

While a treasured ocean pool on the Eyre Peninsula's far west coast is back up and running, to the delight of locals and tourists, some regional South Australian communities await access to their jetties.

Despite having been debated and defeated, the idea is back on the agenda, with a new proposal put before Hobart city council.

Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner reveals more details about where his council will cut $400 million in spending this financial year, while simultaneously announcing a multi-million-dollar cost increase to the Moggill Road upgrade at Indooroopilly.

The Queensland government has doubled its First Home Owner Grant to $30,000 but the incentive won't suit everyone. Here's what you you need to know.

Supporters say facadism helps preserve a building's history while making it accessible, cost-effective and better for the environment. To its detractors, it's "a very sad thing" that must be stamped out.

BlueScope Steel hopes the redevelopment of a large parcel of industrial land will bring tens of thousands of workers back to the Port Kembla steelworks.

The works are expected to affect the daily commutes of around 10,000 passengers for up to 18 months.

It's been called the world's most complicated underground interchange and it'll soon be part of the commute for 100-thousand Sydney drivers. The 3.9-billion-dollar rozelle interchange is set to open soon after four years of construction. 24 kilometres of tunnels snake their way deep underground. But drivers are being assured that finding their way will be easy.

Jaimen Hudson has helped bring international recognition to beaches near Esperance. But the local filmmaker, who lives with quadriplegia, struggles to access one of its most iconic stretches of coastline.

Once an impressive and stylish regional Victorian venue, fire destroyed Robinvale's only hotel in 2015 and it has sat derelict in the centre of town since. It's high time that changed, say residents.

Catherine King says federal funding for a critical Western Sydney motorway interchange was withdrawn because an independent review could not determine what it was for.

More than 1,000 signatures have been added to call for a strip club to be stopped from opening in the heart of Albury. But its would-be proprietor says the town "really needs one".

The state is grappling with the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding towards major road projects, while gaining more than $2b towards the North-South Corridor.

WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti joins a chorus of state and territory leaders in lambasting the Commonwealth over the decision to wipe $30 billion from 50 projects in an effort to reduce inflation.

Nine Queensland infrastructure projects have been cancelled after a budget blowout on Commonwealth spending. One resident whose property was resumed says he may have lost his beloved home for nothing.

Many in this community booming with treechangers are demanding a moratorium on residential development, fearing new arrivals will put further pressure on their dwindling creek water supply.

A group of former ACT chief ministers is urging the ACT government to include special signage for all of Canberra's suburbs – not just those named after ex-prime ministers.

Dozens of infrastructure projects across the country have been scrapped by the federal government in an effort to contain spending.

A man who created a high-speed rail strategy for NSW says time is running out to connect the Hunter region to the rest of the state.

Yarra council votes to reduce the speed limit to 30 kilometres per hour for almost every street in the inner-Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy and Collingwood.

On the one hand, is a $3 billion development to accommodate thousands of families. On the other, is a burial site that is of immeasurable cultural significance. The problem? They are both on the same ground.

Construction of a multi-billion-dollar estate in South Australia is also the site of one of state's most significant Indigenous burial grounds.

Whenever it rains, the black soil dirt track that leads to Mikaela Smith's home turns into a mud pit, bogging even the best four-wheel drives.

A new River Derwent ferry service master plan lays out where six proposed terminals would go, and how residents should not expect park-and-ride services to help them make their trip.

New South Wales women's groups say they're "absolutely stunned" by the recent publication of development applications for domestic violence shelters by local councils.