Robert Paul Long was sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 20 years for setting fire to the Childers Palace Backpacker Hostel on June 23, 2000.

On Monday June 23, 2025, it will be 25 years since tragedy ripped through the small town of Childers and 15 lives were lost ...

At just 26 ounces, the Skyscape Trekker from Six Moons is a bonafide ultralight single-person tent — but it's also long ...

The Palace’, a collaboration between the community of Childers, Queensland music ensemble Topology and writer/director Rod ...

PAWTUCKET – The Pawtucket Backpackers will be the recipients of Stop & Shop’s Bloomin’ 4 Good Bouquet in June. When shoppers purchase a specially-marked bouquet for $11.99 at the 368-398 Cottage St.

There is an alternate route to this popular Western Slope destination, but be warned it is longer and more technical than the ...

Two Danish backpackers who died in a mass poisoning in Laos messaged a friend to say they had been vomiting blood for hours before they went eerily silent, and were later found deceased.

After her first self-guided walking trip in 2011, Christine Harrold, 59, decided she was done taking do-nothing beach vacations. On the eight-day meander through Scotland with her teenage son, the ...

Pelicans fly in formation overhead. It’s easy to understand why hippies, backpackers and armchair archaeologists began flocking to this pocket of the Yucatán Peninsula in the ’70s.

TWO Finnish backpackers went deep into the Australian outback on their travels, little did they know it would be a living nightmare. They delved deep into the Australian outback on the hunt for a ...