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| UpdatedConcern is growing in regional South Australia that people with a disability will miss out on the support they need despite the roll out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Topics: disabilities, health, community-and-society, port-pirie-5540, kadina-5554, moonta-5558, sa
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| UpdatedWanted man Conan Taylor, who allegedly threatened police with a gun in rural South Australia, is arrested at Blakeview, in Adelaide's north.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, kadina-5554, sa
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| UpdatedA man who threatened police with a gun before fleeing on foot remains at large in rural South Australia.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, kadina-5554, sa
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Economic uncertainty in Whyalla and South Australia's north could fuel an election upset in the safe Liberal seat of Grey.
Topics: elections, federal-elections, federal-election, whyalla-5600, port-lincoln-5606, roxby-downs-5725, ceduna-5690, coober-pedy-5723, port-pirie-5540, port-pirie-south-5540, port-pirie-west-5540, kadina-5554, maitland-5573, orroroo-5431, peterborough-5422, burra-5417, eudunda-5374, sa
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| UpdatedTrucks, tractors, farm equipment and hay are destroyed in a $2 million shed fire on the upper Yorke Peninsula in South Australia overnight.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, kadina-5554, sa
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A detour trialled in an attempt to reduce holiday traffic congestion on the Copper Coast Highway just north of Port Wakefield is declared a success.
Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, government-and-politics, port-wakefield-5550, moonta-5558, kadina-5554, sa
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Drivers returning to Adelaide over the long weekend will have the option to bypass the Copper Coast Highway just north of Port Wakefield, which is notoriously congested on public holidays.
Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, government-and-politics, port-wakefield-5550, moonta-5558, kadina-5554, wallaroo-5556, sa
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An 86-metre strip of highway fencing in South Australia is covered with almost 400 bras in a bid to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer.
Topics: breast-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, states-and-territories, kadina-5554, sa, australia
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A Yorke Peninsula council votes to overturn a decision to fly a gay pride flag during the Feast Festival, and is now developing an alternative policy.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, local-government, kadina-5554, sa
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| UpdatedMediation is being held between a South Australian council and its chief executive after he resigned in protest against the council raising a rainbow flag during an Adelaide gay and lesbian festival.
Topics: local-government, government-and-politics, sexuality, marion-5043, kadina-5554, sa
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| UpdatedA decision to raise the rainbow flag causes controversy at another SA council, with the chief executive of the Copper Coast council quitting in protest.
Topics: local-government, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, kadina-5554, sa, adelaide-5000
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Historians are pushing for South Australian mining towns of Cornish heritage to be recognised alongside iconic sites such as the Sydney Opera House and the Great Ocean Road.
Topics: community-and-society, history, history-education, education, rural, mining-rural, sa, burra-5417, wallaroo-5556, moonta-5558, kadina-5554
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| UpdatedWestern Australian farmers are still delivering the state's biggest harvest in history even though they are at the tail end of the grain harvest.
Topics: crop-harvesting, agricultural-crops, agricultural-prices, agribusiness, wheat, sydney-2000, nsw, rupanyup-3388, melbourne-3000, vic, sa, yorketown-5576, kadina-5554
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The Yorke Peninsula Alliance has outlined its wish list for both major parties ahead of the March state election.
Topics: regional-development, urban-development-and-planning, activism-and-lobbying, states-and-territories, local-government, kadina-5554, port-pirie-5540
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The Port Pirie Council says it is facing increased competition in retaining major regional sporting events that have traditionally been held in the city.
Topics: local-government, community-and-society, port-pirie-5540, clare-5453, orroroo-5431, kadina-5554
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The RAA said its new rating system would put regional service stations under more scrutiny.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, sa, kadina-5554, coober-pedy-5723, port-augusta-5700, mount-gambier-5290, port-pirie-5540, port-lincoln-5606, renmark-5341, naracoorte-5271, clare-5453
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Welfare agency Anglicare says the cost of housing is making it harder to break the poverty cycle in parts of regional South Australia.
Topics: housing, poverty, charities-and-community-organisations, welfare, sa, kadina-5554, port-lincoln-5606, whyalla-5600, port-pirie-5540, wallaroo-5556
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The RAA says country fuel retailers will charge motorists up to six-cents-a-litre too much over the Easter long weekend.
Topics: oil-and-gas, economic-trends, sa, clare-5453, kadina-5554, renmark-5341, mount-gambier-5290, port-augusta-5700, port-lincoln-5606, port-pirie-5540
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The return of school today signals a change for Kadina on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula, with the primary and high schools now officially merged.
Topics: schools, kadina-5554, port-pirie-5540
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Police on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula and in the mid-north say the public release of crime statistics show reductions in most categories of victim-reported crimes.
Topics: crime, kadina-5554, port-augusta-5700, port-pirie-5540
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A mid-north South Australian man who has been helping the Blyth community for more than 40 years was one of three people in the state's north and west to receive a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) at the weekend, as part of Australia Day celebrations.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, australia-day, blyth-5462, port-augusta-5700, port-lincoln-5606, port-pirie-5540, kadina-5554, tanunda-5352, arno-bay-5603
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Five country students were among the top achievers in the state in this year's South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) exams.
Topics: secondary-schools, sa, mount-gambier-5290, port-pirie-5540, renmark-5341, littlehampton-5250, loxton-5333, balaklava-5461, kadina-5554
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Six men from Yorke Peninsula have appeared in the Kadina Magistrates Court in relation to an alleged home invasion at Wallaroo earlier this year.
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, assault, wallaroo-5556, kadina-5554, port-pirie-5540
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New data shows South Australia's Copper Coast housing market is bucking the trend and outperforming similar coastal markets around the nation.
Topics: housing-industry, economic-trends, moonta-5558, kadina-5554, wallaroo-5556, port-hughes-5558
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| UpdatedSo are South Australian apiarists concerned about the potential of Varroa mite finding it's way to Australia?
Topics: rural, beekeeping, kadina-5554