South Australia
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- Four year-old Gus Lamont has been missing for a year. Police believe someone knows where he went
- 40yo man critically injured in house fire in Adelaide's south-west A man has been rushed to hospital after a house fire in Adelaide's south-western suburbs. The 40-year-old man sustained life-threatening injuries.
- Innocent kelpie suffers hatchet attack, found at South Australian golf course At just one year old, innocent kelpie Zara was found bludgeoned, tethered and alone on the edge of a popular golf course.
- Serial con man turned charity director back in court on dishonesty charges A director of an Adelaide charity that helps prisoners and their families has appeared in court on charges of dishonest dealings with documents and allegedly being unlawfully on premises.
- Vaccine clinic opens after four teens infected in measles outbreak Four teenagers from Brighton Secondary School have tested positive for measles, having attended places including a shopping centre and a supermarket.
- 'Makeshift' treatment areas and long waits reported at Adelaide hospital ED Patients were facing long waits at the Lyell McEwin Hospital emergency department in early September, according to a report the doctors' union submitted to Safework SA.
- Measles outbreak at top public high school grows as SA Health opens vaccination clinic Health authorities are racing to contain a measles outbreak linked to an Adelaide high school after three more students contracted the contagious virus.
- Perth Wildcats guard Elijah Pepper says match-winning shot against Adelaide his best-ever Wildcats hero Elijah Pepper has labelled his match-winning three against Adelaide on Thursday night the best shot of his career.
- Officer cleared of DV charges but 'not a finding complainant has lied' A police security officer has been acquitted of domestic violence charges following a trial in South Australia's District Court. Delivering her verdict today, Judge Lisa Dunlop acquitted Mr Morrison.
- Man charged after Pokemon cards stolen in armed smash-and-grab at Adelaide shopping centre A man has been arrested after a masked offender allegedly smashed a display cabinet and stole Pokemon cards from an Adelaide toy store.
- Anthony LaPaglia on working with 'gruff' but 'nice' playwright Arthur Miller Anthony LaPaglia is portraying Willy Logan in the American's Pulitzer Award-winning play, Death of a Salesman, for an Australian production that has been revived twice since it premiered in 2023.
- Prosecutors drop abuse charge against Adelaide child protection worker Hannah Joyce Neale appeared in court today where the prosecution withdrew a charge of sexual abuse of a child, which meant she is no longer facing any criminal charges.
- $500m Adelaide University merger squeezed by international student cuts The new Adelaide University is not on track to meet its international student targets and is staring down tens of millions in lost revenue.
- One coward punch changed Beau's life forever. Now he wants his attacker jailed A 18-year-old man left with a permanent brain injury after a coward punch attack in Adelaide is pleading for his teenage attacker to be jailed.
- Truckie escapes injury after timber plank impales vehicle at busy Adelaide intersection Wild traffic camera footage has captured the heart-stopping moment an unsecured timber load smashed through a truck’s windscreen at a busy intersection.
- Cyclist freed from beneath four-wheel drive after becoming trapped in crash on Adelaide Hills road The 19-year-old had fallen on a bend before the situation unfolded.
- Timber planks spear through truck cabin at busy Adelaide intersection sparking police investigation A truck driver has avoided serious injury after a load of timber speared through the cabin of his vehicle and scattered across a busy Adelaide intersection.
- Legal action lodged over SA government’s MotoGP circuit plans Federal court legal action has been lodged over the SA government's plans for a MotoGP circuit in Adelaide CBD. Designs for the $96 million street circuit were released in August.
- Self-described 'evil' man avoids jail for wire traps on bike path Levi Young-Henderson has received suspended sentence for stringing wire across a bike path and injuring several cyclists in 2025.
- Move over bottled water: Australia’s best drop has been crowned Queensland has beaten every other state and territory in the battle for Australia’s best-tasting tap water, taking out the national title at a blind tasting competition in Adelaide.
- Gus Lamont: Dozens of new tip-offs flood in after $1m reward announced in outback missing persons case Two emails and 34 calls had been received by Crime Stoppers since SA Police on Wednesday announced a $1 million reward for information that could help solve the case.
- 'Sudden' death of SA woman from falling tree branch preventable, coroner finds Judith Anne Ditter, 59, died in November 2020 when she, her daughter and two other passengers were travelling along Mount Barker Road in Stirling.
- ‘Forever our princess’: Family’s heartbreak amid tributes for Delilah Peterson after fatal crash in Moana A fundraiser launched on behalf of Delilah’s parents, Sarah and Kyle, describes an outpouring of grief from loved ones following the incident at Moana on Tuesday night.
- Prison to plate farm program helping to reduce reoffending in SA The South Australian government has released a new strategy to reduce recidivism rates by one-third over the next four years.
- Rita Saffioti 10 Things: Spot signs of change on our border with South Australia There could not be a more appropriate week to reveal the new design for the WA-SA border sign, with plenty of West Aussies preparing to head across the Nullarbor.
- Girl, 11, killed and mother injured in horror head-on crash in Adelaide’s Moana Emergency services were called to Commercial Rd at Moana in Adelaide’s south about 7pm on Tuesday after a Subaru and Nissan Pulsar collided.
- Young girl dies in car crash on Adelaide coast A 11-year-old girl has died in a head-on crash in Moana, Adelaide.
- Test discard shines in SA's one-day win over Tasmania An axed Test batsman flourished as South Australia defeated Tasmania in their One-Day Cup fixture in Adelaide.
- ‘Why another chance?’: South Australia to continue greyhound racing despite welfare concerns Greyhound racing will continue in South Australia despite calls from animal welfare advocates and the Greens to shut the industry down.
- Missed birthdays and milestones: Gus Lamont's parents share heartbreak The grief-stricken parents of Gus Lamont have urged anyone to come forward with answers on what happened to their son.
- Gus Lamont’s parents make plea as $1m reward offered for information about disappearance No trace of Gus has been found since he went missing from his family’s South Australian farm on 27 September last year.
- SA greyhound racing allowed to continue, with independent watchdog The state's greyhound racing industry was given a two-year deadline to carry out recommendations to improve its practices, following an independent inquiry preceded by ABC reporting.
- Snowtown murderer moves to pre-release centre after being granted parole Snowtown killer James Spyridon Vlassakis is today being transferred to the Adelaide Pre-release Centre, marking the first step towards his release into the community.
- Marmota stretches SA gold drilling campaign beyond 2km as assays approach Marmota Ltd has expanded its drilling campaign beyond 2km at its SA Greenewood gold discovery after intersecting more favourable geology.
- ‘Game, set and match’: conservative Alex Antic’s win leaves SA Liberals facing a new reality All eyes are now watching for the next move in the South Australian Liberal Party after the weekend election of Senator Alex Antic to the presidency.
- ‘Someone knows’: $1m reward to crack mystery of missing SA boy August ‘Gus’ Lamont In an exclusive interview with 7NEWS, Gus’s grandmother Josie Murray invited cameras onto the sprawling sheep station for the first time.
- Gus Lamont's parents record video as $1m reward for missing boy announced South Australian Police are about to give an update on the disappearance of four-year-old Gus Lamont.
- Girl killed and woman in serious condition after two-vehicle collision in Moana A girl has died and two other people have been taken to hospital following a car crash south of Adelaide last night.
- British backpacker left alone at night by Greyhound bus in outback A British woman was left in a small outback community after dark when her Greyhound bus drove off following a toilet stop.
- Alex Antic’s rise in SA Liberals has coincided with a collapse in the party’s vote. Is there further to fall? Over the weekend, Antic beat upper house leader Nicola Centofanti 119 to 73 votes to take the presidency.