The Sydney-based Cruising Yacht Club of Australia announced shortly after 11am today that the British-registered 55-footer Aera, skippered by Jez Fanstone, had won overall handicap honors and the Tattersalls Cup ... Read More

According to early morning news reports, the British-registered 55-footer Aera, skippered by Jez Fanstone, has won overall handicap honors in the 2004 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. With 50 boats still ... Read More

The newly launched 90ft (27.3m) yacht Nicorette, skippered by Ludde Ingvall, has won the 2004 line honors in this year's Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race which saw the starting fleet ... Read More

At 4.45am today, Australian eastern daylight saving time, the last remaining super maxi in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, the 90ft Nicorette, was within 6.4 nautical miles of the ... Read More

The super maxi Skandia capsized in the Tasman Sea late today after she lost her massive keel. Skipper Grant Wharington and his crew flew into Hobart after taking to liferafts ... Read More

By 6.30pm, December 28, a total of 54 yachts had retired from the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race due to adverse weather conditions, or gear and mechanical problems. This left ... Read More

Leading yacht Konika Minolta reported at 7.45am that it had withdrawn from the race with some structural damage.

Super maxi Skandia which had been dueling for the lead with Konika Minolta in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race has dropped out of the blue water classic after losing ... Read More

Dueling super maxis Konika Minolta and Skandia were this morning leading into Bass Strait in this year's Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race with the Weather Bureau issuing a gale warning ... Read More

With the starting gun fired at 1.10pm, December 26, Australian eastern daylight saving time, Nicorette was leading out of the Sydney Heads within 15 minutes of the start of the ... Read More

The Sydney to Hobart sea classic begins at Sydney Harbour shortly after 1pm today, Boxing Day, Australian eastern daylight saving time. The race covers 630 nautical miles to Hobart on ... Read More

St Mary's Cathedral stands just east of Hyde Park in the heart of Sydney. The mother church of Australian Catholicism, it is an imposing stone structure of decorated geometrical Gothic ... Read More

An hour away from Sydney, the Blue Mountains offer respite from the heat of summer. Lots of attractions, too. Cool.

Take a leisurely trip through country Australia. When in Brisbane, cross the range to the Darling Downs towns, farms, attractions.

Alice Springs and Uluru lie at the very heart of Australia. This is Australia's Red Centre, an Outback landscape of desert, valleys, a monolithic rock, and a town that's earned ... Read More

Yes, the remaining participants in the current series of The Amazing Race travel all the way to Rotorua from Auckland, and go sledging and zorbing. See the many attractions of ... Read More

Lately it's been pretty warm in Sydney (and in many other parts of Australia), so it's really pretty much beachtime. But be sure to be safe.

If you are traveling to Australia's capital city with children, add Questacon to your Canberra must-see list for this is a place where science exhibits are not only educational but ... Read More

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, whose life and times were the subject of the film starring Heath Ledger, has become a folk hero not only in the Victorian region of his ... Read More

It's the City of Sails, so "sail" through without the hassles. Here's your guide to getting around in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, from airport shuttle transfers to finding accommodation, ... Read More