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These lonely sentinels are an anachronism when every commercial ship navigates using now-ubiquitous electronic global positioning, but they retain a special place in the hearts of seafarers.

Port Augusta is turning into a battleground for Labor and the Coalition's opposing solutions to reducing carbon emissions, with some threatening legal action if the Coalition wins government.

A cold front moving across south-eastern states is dumping snow, with strong, damaging winds bringing down trees and power lines.

A new foster care program built on the concept it takes a village to raise a child is gaining momentum in Australia.

SA Health is warning of the life-threatening dangers of a synthetic opioid after an Adelaide man almost died in hospital when he consumed a single street-purchased oxycodone pill last week. 

School-age, university students and keen members of the public have gathered to observe a rare public dissection of a 140kg octopus squid found off South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.

The South Australian government is standing firm on its plans to build a hydrogen plant in the Upper Spencer Gulf but the opposition has doubts it can be delivered on budget.

A group of five centenarians celebrate their milestone 100th birthday together with family and friends at a nursing home at Walkerville in Adelaide's north east. 

After Harry Banks acquired a severe brain injury as a baby his parents thought special school would be his only education option. Twelve years later he is flourishing at his local mainstream school.  

Two women tell the Supreme Court of South Australia they witnessed the moment a man was allegedly stabbed within metres of them during a night out in Adelaide's CBD.

The South Australian and Commonwealth governments commit $12 million over three years for Port Augusta and Davenport for youth programs. 

Growing demand for First Nations tourism experiences has led an Eyre Peninsula woman to set up a business she hopes will provide employment for generations to come.

An Adelaide man who helped his father to cover up the death of missing man Steven Murphy has been given a partially suspended sentence and released from custody.

A woman accused of helping to cover up the death of her former partner — whose remains were found after a house fire — is no longer facing a murder charge.  

Dying and starving native trees are becoming more common across South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania after months of little rain.

A jury has heard an intercepted phone call between then-Liberal MP Troy Bell and the former party leader where they discussed an investigation into his alleged wrongdoing. 

Two young women were waiting at a pedestrian crossing when they allegedly saw a man being stabbed and stomped to death, while CCTV captured the alleged murder weapon being tossed into a bike cage, a jury has been told.

Independent Mount Gambier MP Troy Bell is standing trial in the District Court after pleading not guilty to 20 counts of theft and six counts of dishonest dealing with documents.

Police have launched a Commissioner's Inquiry after a man wielding a sword threatened a woman inside her Mawson Lakes unit. Police subdued the man using a taser, and he was taken to hospital where he later died.

Disease authorities say there is potential for the arrival of a bird flu strain that has already been detected in Asia and Antarctica.

The attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania has shocked the world, but US presidents are no strangers to attempts on their lives. 

A renowned explorer who gave Australia its name has been reburied in the village of his birth in the United Kingdom.

Snorkellers swimming in Ewens Ponds, south of Mount Gambier, SA.

Work safety authorities in at least three states called into the hardware giant, amid fears customers and workers have been put at risk by inappropriate handling of the potentially hazardous material.

A rapidly deepening low-pressure system in the Tasman Sea will track towards the coast this weekend, the precursor to a bout of severe winter weather across eastern Australia.