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, ...

Most of the time, when people refer to a place as "being underground", they're speaking figuratively. That isn't the case in ...

The remote town of Coober Pedy, which relies on large amounts of cash for its opal mining and tourism industry, is set to lose its only bank next year. Coober Pedy will lose its only bank when Westpac ...

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 ...

Coober Pedy is one of the least accessible towns in Australia – the place where the old American West meets Mars – which is probably why it gained a reputation as the place where outlaws went to hide.

Step into the eerie world of underground living, where residents have built their very own homes and businesses into the chalky clay rocks in the Australian outback. The mining town of Coober Pedy in ...

Coober Pedy is one of the few towns in Australia where you can still buy a home for less than $100,000. But if you are prepared to pay a little bit more to live in the self-described opal capital of ...