The landscape in Coober Pedy is out of this world, and so is the property price growth. The South Australian outback town is about to crack a house median of $100,000 after an exponential 24.4 per ...

Coober Pedy is at the centre of Australia's opal mining industry. Now the town, where 60% of its residents live underground, is becoming a leader in sustainable living. Video by Clare Richardson ...

Police have arrested two men after hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of opals were allegedly stolen from a business in the outback opal mining town of Coober Pedy. SA police said the theft ...

COOBER PEDY, Australia — From her front door, Sonya Crombie can see the sandstone hills where White men carved up the land in search of opal and then stayed, turning their mines into elaborate ...

Located 460 mi/740 km northwest of Adelaide, the town of Coober Pedy, where most of Australia's opals are mined, is almost entirely underground. Stay two nights and tour the mines (you'll learn e ...