Eugene Boisvert

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Eugene Boisvert |Josh Brine

The owner of one of the Limestone Coast's most popular diving spots has joined a world-famous cave diver in calling for more action to be taken to preserve water levels in the region's sinkholes and wetlands. The concerns raised by Kilsby Sinkhole owner Graham Kilsby and cave diver Richard Harris come after one of the driest years on record in South Australia's south-east. Their concerns are also amid a review of water allocations that has pitted environmentalists against farmers and foresters.

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Eugene Boisvert

A Victorian couple has been jailed for printing money and using it at a petrol station after getting the idea from TikTok. Craig Batten, 45, and his partner, 29-year-old Keanna Morrison, were sentenced in the Mount Gambier Magistrates Court to five months behind bars for making $750 in cash and using a $100 note at a petrol station in Mount Gambier in January. Batten told the writer of a pre-sentencing report that he had came up after watching a video on social media.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Eugene Boisvert |Conor Burke

The drought and recent cooler weather are causing ladybirds to gather in huge numbers around Mount Gambier, in South Australia's south-east, but an ecologist says it is a good thing. Photographer Darren Archibald was out last weekend and snapped photos of thousands, if not millions, of the insects aggregating on Stobie poles, fences and plants along Wandilo Forest Road in Dismal Swamp. "There are so many of them that the ground is covered," Mr Archibald told ABC South East SA.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Eugene Boisvert

From its early days, Southend's men have been known for pioneering European settlement in South Australia's south-east and, later, setting up the lobster-fishing industry that would become a mainstay of the region. Now, the women in the community, starting with the Indigenous Boandik people, are being recognised in a new monument in the small town about 300 kilometres south-east of Adelaide.

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Eugene Boisvert

Bovine bellows of glee rang out across a field in South Australia's south-east after a calf was rescued from a well it was stuck down for most of Thursday. The rescue came after hours of work from State Emergency Service volunteers, firefighters and other emergency services at a beef cattle farm at Yahl, just south-east of Mount Gambier.