South Australia

Adelaide palaeontologist Professor John Long is travelling to Antarctica in search of fossils to prove humans evolved from fish.

A man who threatened police with a gun before fleeing on foot remains at large in rural South Australia.

An ABC manager defends rebranding its Adelaide radio station in a way that has a community station now threatening both a legal and political fight against the change.

The new Royal Adelaide Hospital is safe and South Australians will be proud of its medical facilities, says the builder of the yet-to-open health project.

A blessing of unicorns will bring magic to Adelaide this afternoon at the launch of the 2017 Adelaide Fringe program.

A bus operator that has been servicing the isolated city of Broken Hill in far west New South Wales for more than 80 years is selling to a nationally-operated private bus company.

An unknown disease is killing hundreds of kangaroos in far west New South Wales and mystifying animal experts.

Nine mobile phone black spots in South Australia that Liberal MPs promised to fix during the election campaign are left off the latest funding list, but they have not been abandoned, the Federal Government says.

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill apologises in State Parliament to members of the LGBTIQ community who have been discriminated against because of legislation, citing the case of a British man who died in the state but his marriage was not recognised.

Community station Radio Adelaide accuses the ABC of trying to "hijack" its name after announcing its rebranding of 891 ABC Adelaide.

A Queensland man who is part of the Mongols bikie gang hierarchy is sentenced to two-and half-years' jail over a 2011 brawl in an Adelaide nightclub.

More than 250 people are under surveillance as potential arsonists as South Australia enters its bushfire danger season.

A woman who starved her pet Chihuahua to death in Adelaide has struggled during her six weeks in prison while suffering depression and anxiety, a court hears.

Households relying on an untreated River Murray supply struggle with dark, smelly water as a result of the blackwater event caused by high flows.

About 200,000 South Australian homes and businesses lost power overnight due to an outage affecting the interconnector from Victoria.

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill is set to issue a formal apology to the state's LGBTIQ community in the State Parliament today, but some community members say this needs to be followed by changes to discriminatory laws.

Australian captain Steve Smith does a U-turn and is now endorsing the prospect of an historic day-night Ashes Test against England.

Researchers at the University of Adelaide invent an optical fibre probe that could help surgeons distinguish between breast cancer and healthy tissue during operations.

New laws to legalise growing industrial hemp are introduced to the South Australian Parliament by the Greens as politicians are told "it cannot get you stoned".

A man jailed for at least 20 years for murdering a fellow psychiatric patient at a hospital in Adelaide's south wins an appeal against his conviction.

Despite seemingly every batsman in Australia being just a few good knocks away from the Test side, Travis Head's focus is on limited-overs cricket.

Amputee requests for prosthetics, including from a Paralympic gold medallist, are rejected as the South Australian Government tightens rules to provide just one general-purpose artificial limb through its funded scheme.

ABC presenter Ian Henschke announces his retirement after 34 years with the national broadcaster, including six years on local radio in Adelaide.

A no-confidence motion against Water Minister Ian Hunter passes SA's Upper House following an expletive-laden outburst at a meeting of water ministers this month.