Lorraine Baff thought things couldn't get worse after "losing" her 56-year-old husband Jim to Alzheimer's disease — then she learned he was being abused by a man who meant to be caring for him.
Documents leaked to the ABC show senior bureaucrats were warned early last year about inappropriate care at the disgraced Oakden nursing home in Adelaide's north-eastern suburbs.
A South Australian man accused of posting videos online encouraging violent acts against Jewish people pleads not guilty in an Adelaide court to advocating terrorism.
A century-old technique that involves flushing a woman's fallopian tubes can help infertile couples get pregnant without the need for expensive IVF treatments, new research suggests.
The long-standing Come Out Festival in Adelaide changes its name after 43 years, with organisers saying the name no longer has the right resonance for the children's event.
The traditional workforce is evolving quickly before our eyes, with casual contracts or the "gig economy" disrupting taxi and food delivery industries. Could health care work be next?
Posters often with highly contentious messages have been a potent force for social or political change over the years — now some of that street art is on display in an Adelaide exhibition.
More abuse allegations at Oakden prompt an acceleration of closure plans for the Makk and McLeay wards, as two staff are reported to Adelaide police in as many days.
Roman Heinze, who tied up and sexually assaulted a Brazilian backpacker and mowed down her companion with his four-wheel drive at Salt Creek in South Australia, will spend at least 17 years in jail, with a judge noting his "violent and obsessive sexual preoccupations".
A lightning strike is identified as the cause of a large fire at the Orana factory, which employs more than 75 disabled South Australians, at Para Hills West in Adelaide's north last night.
Federal Court proceedings are delaying the removal of a 3,000-tonne wave energy generator that sank off the coast of Carrickalinga, south of Adelaide, more than three years ago, the State Government says.
A staff member has been sacked over alleged abuse at the government-run Oakden mental health facility, South Australia's Mental Health Minister reveals.
A witness swears at the teen unlicensed driver who stole a ute and caused a fatal accident at the northern end of the South Expressway in Adelaide, while giving evidence in the District Court.
A coronial inquiry into the deaths of two stroke patients at the Royal Adelaide Hospital may not be possible due to a lack of information being provided by SA Health — with one of the deaths not even being reported, the state coroner says.
South Australians could face delays to accessing lifesaving cancer treatment if proposed cuts to a third of the pathology workforce go ahead, the union says.
A small number of overseas workers are required to help build Australia's next submarine fleet because local staff "can't just learn from reading a manual", Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne says.
