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Adelaide's back-up power station at Pelican Point is turned on to provide additional capacity this evening in the hopes of avoiding a repeat of last night's blackouts.
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The rest of Australia will fall victim to the type of large-scale blackouts experienced in South Australia unless the Federal Government urgently improves its energy policies, the Australian Energy Council says.
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Wednesday night's load shedding in Adelaide is just the second time it has happened since 2009, but with South Australia's heatwave to continue, more suburbs face temporary power outages — possibly today.
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A driver denies being distracted by a wrestling DVD when he caused a fatal accident on a South Australian freeway, and makes an emotional apology as the crash victim's granddaughter leaves the courtroom.
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As the SA Government unveils a new campaign aimed at reducing violence in hospitals, nurses call for the right to refuse treatment to aggressive patients.
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US President Donald Trump sends Chinese President Xi Jinping a letter saying he looks forward to working with him, although they have not spoken directly since Mr Trump took office.
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A carer who encouraged sexual acts between two intellectually disabled people and then filmed them is jailed for his crimes, including rape.
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SA Liberal leader Steven Marshall is opposed to a nuclear waste dump in the state, but says nuclear energy is a potential solution to the state's energy reliability problems.
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RBA governor Philip Lowe urges international investors to push back against a return to trade barriers by populist politicians ahead of Friday's statement on monetary policy.
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Two drivers whose road rage caused the death of a man at a pedestrian crossing are jailed over the incident, which the sentencing judge described as "outrageous".
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Thai police charge an Australian man over a jet ski collision in Phuket that killed his 20-year-old girlfriend.
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An Environment Department investigation confirms the contamination near Linc Energy's underground coal gasification plant is much more widespread than previously thought.
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A man who has previously been tried and acquitted of the murders of two Aboriginal children at Bowraville, on the NSW mid-north coast in the early 1990s, is again charged with their murder.
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Australia Post chairman John Stanhope will be called before the Senate to justify the $5.6 million salary for his chief executive Ahmed Fahour, who earns 10 times as much as the Prime Minister.
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A former Westpac banker is sentenced to three years in prison after signing up elderly customers, including a 98-year-old woman in an aged-care facility, to $4 million in loans they could not repay.
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The Myanmar military may have killed "thousands" of Rohingya Muslims in a campaign of rape and destruction described as ethnic cleansing by the United Nations.
