On 17 October 1949, then prime minister Ben Chifley watched the first blast of the Snowy Mountains Hydro ... country's greatest engineering project, as well as the cradle of Australia's ...

Earlier this year, it committed $196 million to be spent on projects addressing water, tourism and housing in the Snowy Mountains as part of a "Special Activation Project". Some of that would go ...

A woman who was missing for almost two weeks in Australia’s Snowy Mountains region has been ... park to take pictures of the wildlife for a project, was rescued on Sunday, 5pm, in injured ...

It's one of Australia's greatest engineering achievements of all times: The Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme, in NSW. It covers the size of Switzerland, and for many, it's the birth of ...

The Snowy Hydro 2.0 project has been hit by another delay, with work stopping on two key tunnelling projects. Workers had raised concerns about "last resort" chambers attached to tunnelling ...

Work on the Snowy 2.0 project has temporarily stopped due to safety concerns related to training and certification requirements. The project, now costing $12 billion, has experienced significant ...

Work on three major tunnelling projects at the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro site has now stopped due to safety fears. Unions have raised concerns about workers' readiness to use "refuge chambers", which ...

In the latest setback to the trouble-plagued $12bn project, Snowy Hydro said the concerns related to the project’s refuge chambers, which are last-resort areas where trapped workers can shelter ...