South Australia

There are fears the new Royal Adelaide Hospital will struggle to cope with its first winter flu season after the current hospital hits capacity during summer.

An Adelaide City councillor wants to reduce parking fines to prevent the council being accused of revenue raising and to protect the city's reputation.

The dining experience might be Italian, but an Adelaide restaurant hopes translating its menu into Mandarin will entice more Chinese tourists to dine there.

A man who admitted killing Daniel Hind before putting his body in a wheelie bin in Adelaide's northern suburbs tells a court the victim "took a swing" at him before he retaliated, but he "didn't mean for Daniel to die".

A man faces court accused of raping a backpacker and holding her against her will at a property south-east of Adelaide, as police warn more alleged victims may emerge.

The grandfather of a toddler killed in an alleged hit-and-run at Dover Gardens yells profanities at the man accused of being the driver as he faces Adelaide Magistrates Court.

The coach of minor premiers the Adelaide 36ers says his side will need to be 'hungry' when they face off against the Illawarra Hawks in the NBL semi-finals.

South Australian jockey Josh Cartwright, who intentionally collided with a race horse and unseated the jockey of another, is suspended from riding for 18 months, despite his lawyer claiming he was "on the edge of a breakdown" and saw his actions as "a way out".

Building places of healing and setting up new community programs could be the next wave of support for the Stolen Generations in South Australia, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher says.

Horticulture growers and traders will be able to employ an expert mediator in a new fast, efficient and flexible dispute resolution process.

A man who beat another man to death after coming to the aid of two women who were being sexually assaulted is jailed for 12 years, in what the judge describes as a vicious and cruel beating.

Adelaide dive instructor Kate Wilkins was so sick of seeing rubbish while diving that she decided to do something about it.

Palaeontologists are working in the searing outback sun to document fossils – believed to be more than half a billion years old – in the Flinders Ranges, as part of efforts to get the region onto the World Heritage list.

South Australia's Liberal Opposition promises to scrap the state's target to source half its energy from renewable sources in bid to "restore affordable, reliable power".

The opening of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital might come before this year's flu season but talks will continue about the hospital's eventual cost, Health Minister Jack Snelling says.

Adelaide Festival show The Secret River will use a quarry as its backdrop, even if that risks performances being cancelled in bad weather.

A big wool processing firm in Adelaide is shutting down at times because spot power prices hit $13,000, compared with $10 at times of low demand.

Legal action has ended over the delayed Royal Adelaide Hospital build, the South Australian Government says, and construction should finish in March.

Just days after a deliberate fire is lit at home in Woodville West, an arsonist strikes again, causing extensive damage to the property currently on sale.

The rippled stone of the outback Flinders Ranges used to be an ocean floor and scientists are now documenting fossils they hope will lead to World Heritage listing of the region.

A man will face an Adelaide court tomorrow charged with rape and unlawful detention of a backpacker who was found on Friday.

People who live in bushland areas with catastrophic fire conditions are told to leave their homes, as the NSW RFS issues emergency warnings for fires at Leadville near Dunedoo and Lower Pappinbarra, 50km west of Port Macquarie.

Victoria wicketkeeper Sam Harper heads to hospital for scans after being hit in the head by South Australian Jake Lehmann's bat during a Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide Oval.

A 52-year-old man is arrested over the alleged abduction and sexual assault of a European backpacker in South Australia's Murray Mallee region.