The Australian sheep industry is facing a crisis as farmers cull and give away sheep for nothing. Record rainfall has seen the sheep population boom, but sent mutton prices tumbling. Livestock are a ...

Australia's mutton glut has sent prices tumbling, and some farmers are compelled to give their sheep away to save costs instead of rearing them on-farm. Driving the large sheep flock were three years ...

The family of August "Gus" Lamont have released the first image of the missing 4-year-old who disappeared six days ago from ...

SYDNEY - Around 88 pounds of wool has been sheared from a sheep found near Australia's capital, the RSPCA said on Thursday, making him unofficially the world's woolliest. The animal, named Chris by ...

Australian police have tasked an Aboriginal tracker with helping to find a four-year-old boy missing in the Outback.

Police have issued a harrowing update as the search continues for August 'Gus' Lamont , who has been missing in the Australian outback for five days.

CANBERRA (Reuters) -Australian sheep farmers are cashing in on record-high sheep prices, as rising global demand for lamb and mutton fuels a boom in exports from the world's top sheep meat supplier.

SYDNEY — Shaun the shaggy Australian sheep has at last been shorn smooth. But the woolly wanderer wasn’t the wooliest of all. The sheep apparently had been hiding for years on a farm on the island ...

Authorities said they hope little Gus “has crawled into a hole somewhere and he’s just still hanging in there” ...

The fleece shorn from a wild sheep found in an Australian forest, has weighed in at more than 78 pounds. According to a report by Reuters, the ailing sheep - named Baarack by rescuers - hadn’t been ...

Australia’s mutton glut sent prices tumbling, and some farmers are culling or giving away their sheep to save costs instead of rearing them on-farm. Mutton prices have slumped 70% over the past year ...