Leah MacLennan is an Adelaide based reporter. She has worked for Stateline and 7:30 South Australia. Follow Leah on Twitter @lmaclennan
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Labor may oppose a high-level nuclear waste dump, even if the South Australian Government decides to build one, a federal Labor MP says.
Topics: nuclear-issues, environment, states-and-territories, political-parties, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedStamp duty concessions for off-the-plan apartments will be extended and expanded across all of South Australia in July's budget.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, state-parliament, urban-development-and-planning, adelaide-5000, sa
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A war of words erupts between two companies proposing to build solar thermal power stations in Port Augusta, with an expert saying Australian company Solastor is spreading misrepresentations about its competitor.
Topics: solar-energy, alternative-energy, environment, energy, science-and-technology, geothermal-energy, port-augusta-5700, sa
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull promises funding for training scholarships and a suburban Adelaide football oval while continuing to campaign in South Australia.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, elections, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, adelaide-5000, sa
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A $1.2 billion solar-thermal power station is being proposed for Port Augusta in South Australia, and is not the only solar-thermal plan for the region.
Topics: solar-energy, geothermal-energy, alternative-energy, environment, energy, science-and-technology, port-augusta-5700, sa, adelaide-5000
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SA Health contacts the families of 13 children after revealing syringes used in surgical procedures were not sterile.
Topics: health, child-health-and-behaviour, healthcare-facilities, adelaide-5000, sa
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Aboriginal Lands Trust SA says it has been cut out of decisions surrounding service delivery in remote communities, despite promises it would be an integral part of the process.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, yalata-5690, ernabella-0872, sa, australia
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A former dairy farmer running as a Nick Xenophon Team candidate is at odds with the party's leader on how to deal with plummeting milk prices.
Topics: states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, dairy-production, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedThe United Kingdom boosts its communication capabilities in South-East Asia by opening a satellite ground station in Adelaide to receive information from the Skynet satellite system.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, defence-industry, information-and-communication, science-and-technology, mawson-lakes-5095
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Prominent South Australians join a campaign designed to get the Parthenon's collection of marble sculptures returned to Greece.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, community-and-society, history, sa, adelaide-5000, australia, united-kingdom, greece, england
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South Australia could miss out on a remote area dialysis centre and $1.7 million of federal funding, a parliamentary hearing in Adelaide is warned.
Topics: health, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, health-policy, ernabella-0872, sa, adelaide-5000
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Vital mental health services are at risk because of uncertainty over federal funding, a senior South Australian psychiatrist warns.
Topics: mental-health, health-policy, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, budget, sa, adelaide-5000
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The SA Opposition says small businesses will suffer when a payroll tax concession ends mid-year, and wants a rebate to remain.
Topics: states-and-territories, tax, adelaide-5000
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An Adelaide engineering firm hopes it will be able to employ up to 100 people if it gets some of the promised construction work for offshore patrol vessels.
Topics: defence-industry, defence-forces, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, osborne-5017, sa
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| UpdatedA union says many jobs will be saved because of a decision to make Adelaide the early construction site for 12 offshore patrol vessels, while South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill says it will be suicidal if the Federal Government fails to follow through on its pledge.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, defence-industry, osborne-5017, adelaide-5000, sa
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Legalising voluntary euthanasia is a slippery slope towards the kinds of atrocities that were carried out in Nazi Germany, a Liberal MP tells South Australia's Parliament.
Topics: euthanasia, community-and-society, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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At least two men with intellectual disabilities are being inappropriately detained in South Australian prisons, Dignity for Disability MP Kelly Vincent tells state Parliament.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, disabilities, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedThe deadline is officially missed on the build of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital and it prompts the South Australian Government to issue a default notice against the construction consortium.
Topics: states-and-territories, healthcare-facilities, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedLaws to make ride-sharing services like Uber X legal in South Australia will be introduced into Parliament by the State Opposition, but the Government says the proposal lacks detail.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, states-and-territories, parliament, science-and-technology, information-and-communication, internet-culture, adelaide-5000, sa
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The number of South Australians waiting for elective surgery has doubled since the beginning of the year, with the Opposition claiming it is a symptom of a health system in decline.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe trouble-plagued electronic patient records system at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital will not be fully implemented until well after the hospital's latest planned opening date, according to a memo sent to SA Health staff.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, healthcare-facilities, health, health-administration, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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A solution for South Australia's dire jobs situation is the priority for any federal party to get the full backing of the State Government, Premier Jay Weatherill says.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAn Anangu woman, who returned to the remote APY Lands in South Australia's far north to give her children a connection to their heritage, leaves the community fearing for her family's safety.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, sa
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| UpdatedLaws designed to stop people inappropriately dealing with medical records need to be strengthened, South Australia's Opposition says.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, health-administration, sa
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| UpdatedSouth Australian residents campaigning against a nuclear waste dump being set up in their communities take their fight to Canberra, but they are not able to meet Resources and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg.
Topics: nuclear-issues, nuclear-energy, alternative-energy, environment, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, sa, kimba-5641, australia