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| UpdatedA 52-year-old man is arrested over the alleged abduction and sexual assault of a European backpacker in South Australia's Murray Mallee region.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, murray-bridge-5253, meningie-5264, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA European backpacker, who police feared was being held against her will in South Australia's Murraylands region, is found safe in Murray Bridge.
Topics: missing-person, police, murray-bridge-5253, meningie-5264, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedSouth Australian police appeal for anyone holding a European tourist against her will to let her go unharmed as they hold grave concerns following the backpacker's disappearance.
Topics: missing-person, law-crime-and-justice, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedPolice hold serious concerns for a missing European tourist who they suspect may be in South Australia's Murraylands region.
Topics: missing-person, police, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, sa
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ABC cameraman Trent Murphy uses a drone to film SA's Coorong.
Topics: water, environment, water-management, meningie-5264, murray-bridge-5253, tailem-bend-5260, sa
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| UpdatedA 3.7 magnitude earthquake rattles parts of South Australia, Geoscience Australia reports, with its centre near Murray Bridge.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, murray-bridge-5253, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedSA's Opposition wants to overhaul Adelaide's freight network by creating a new road and rail bypass of the city and building a 24-hour airport at Monarto.
Topics: air-transport, rail-transport, road-transport, industry, states-and-territories, business-economics-and-finance, liberals, sa, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, monarto-south-5254
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Drone footage of South Australia's Coorong, where huge environmental benefits have come from good River Murray flows.
Topics: water, environment, water-management, meningie-5264, murray-bridge-5253, tailem-bend-5260, sa
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| UpdatedA prominent ecologist suggests a weir should be built in South Australia's Coorong to ensure flows do not drop below critical levels.
Topics: water, environment, water-management, meningie-5264, murray-bridge-5253, tailem-bend-5260, sa
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| UpdatedThe family of a South Australian woman killed in a head-on collision feels disgusted and insulted by the truck driver convicted over the crash and "his attempts" to avoid prosecution, the District Court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, murray-bridge-5253, mount-gambier-5290, adelaide-5000, sa, vic
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| UpdatedA Victorian truck driver who claimed he blacked out before a fatal accident at Murray Bridge in South Australia is found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, vic, camperdown-3260, mount-gambier-5290, sa
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Counsel for a truck driver accused of causing a fatal crash at Murray Bridge last year says there is a lack of evidence to support the prosecution's claims he was distracted at the time by his new girlfriend.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, murray-bridge-5253, mount-gambier-5290
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A truck driver on trial after ploughing into a car at Murray Bridge allegedly tells a doctor he was agitated with a vehicle behind him and may have moved into the oncoming lane purposefully, but doubts emerge under cross-examination.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, death, adelaide-5000, murray-bridge-5253, mount-gambier-5290, sa
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A truck driver who claims he had a coughing fit and blacked out moments before a fatal crash at Murray Bridge told his doctor he had crashed his vehicle twice before the 2015 accident for the same reason, a court hears.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, death, adelaide-5000, murray-bridge-5253, mount-gambier-5290, sa
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A man who claims he blacked out during a coughing fit before a fatal head-on collision near Murray Bridge was given a perfect bill of health two months prior, the Adelaide court hears.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA truck driver charged over a fatal crash at Murray Bridge in 2015 "made up" that he had a coughing fit and blacked out at the time of the collision, the prosecution alleges in the Adelaide District Court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, disasters-and-accidents, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThere's been a change of leadership at Australia's egg research and marketing body, as a new lobby group vows to represent egg farmers.
Topics: agricultural-prices, agricultural-policy, livestock-welfare, poultry-and-egg-production, sydney-2000, werribee-3030, adelaide-5000, murray-bridge-5253, moss-vale-2577
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| UpdatedHomes and shops around Aldgate in the Adelaide Hill are flooded and other areas are on high alert after heavy rain and wind lashes South Australia.
Topics: weather, adelaide-5000, kingscote-5223, gawler-5118, murray-bridge-5253, verdun-5245, victor-harbor-5211, onkaparinga-hills-5163, sa
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The South Australian Government axes funding to a childhood obesity prevention program, angering several councils.
Topics: health-policy, adelaide-5000, murray-bridge-5253
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An elderly man is charged with child sex offences allegedly committed at Whyalla in South Australia more than three decades ago.
Topics: sexual-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, whyalla-5600, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, sa
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Murray Bridge grain trader, Brenton Strauss faces magistrates court on two criminal offences.
Topics: grain, courts-and-trials, murray-bridge-5253
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| UpdatedWater allocations for SA's River Murray irrigators are boosted from 36 per cent to 52 per cent following good rains in upstream catchments.
Topics: water-management, water-supply, environment, irrigation, rural, renmark-5341, waikerie-5330, murray-bridge-5253, tailem-bend-5260, berri-5343, swan-reach-5354
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| UpdatedA Senate candidate for the Australian Anti-Paedophile Party convicted of being an accessory after the fact to two murders at a massage parlour prompts a group of voters to complain to the Australian Electoral Commission.
Topics: federal-elections, elections, government-and-politics, federal-election, murray-bridge-5253, sa
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Less than a week out from the federal election, the Nick Xenophon Team has set its sights on the blue ribbon seat of Barker.
Topics: federal-elections, elections, government-and-politics, renmark-5341, murray-bridge-5253, mount-gambier-5290, mount-gambier-east-5291, mount-gambier-west-5291, sa, waikerie-5330, tailem-bend-5260, renmark-south-5341, penola-5277, naracoorte-5271, millicent-5280, mannum-5238, loxton-5333, kingston-se-5275, keith-5267, barmera-5345, berri-5343, karoonda-5307
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A hunt for one of the state's most significant paddle steamers and more than two dozen other historic wrecks will begin today along the River Murray.
Topics: community-and-society, history, history-education, mannum-5238, morgan-5320, murray-bridge-5253, sa