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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a desert town like nowhere on Earth... in fact, it kind of resembles the surface of the moon. With a large percentage of its ...

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 ...

In Coober Pedy, located on the Stuart Highway in Southern Australia, almost all of the 2,000 residents live underground. Thanks to extremely hot temperatures that typically go over 104 degrees ...

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.

Coopers is hosting a golf tourney at one of the roughest courses in the world. And no, it's not the Wollongong links.

Known internationally as the Opal Capital of the World, Coober Pedy has a reputation for selling valuable examples of the precious gemstone. Coober Pedy locals pay three times more for water than the ...

Coober Pedy is a small town in the Outback of Southern Australia. Originally an opal mining town, many of Coober Pedy's residents live underground to escape the region's immense heat. Homes, dive bars ...