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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Jordanna Schriever |Josephine Lim
South Australian police say they have been working with Australia's national security agency over a "significant" investigation into an 18-year-old man who is accused of making threats about public events and to an Adelaide school. The man, who cannot be identified, was arrested on Wednesday and appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Thursday.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Josephine Lim |Daniel Keane
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has promised to pour more money into a freight bypass estimated to divert trucks from metropolitan Adelaide. The Coalition, if elected, will contribute $840 million to deliver the Greater Adelaide Freight Bypass, that they say would remove 60 per cent of heavy vehicles from the South Eastern Freeway between Murray Bridge and Adelaide.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Stacey Pestrin |Josephine Lim |Daniel Keane
The imposition of tariffs on Australian exports to the US is the latest in a long series of challenges for SA farmers, who have battled frost and flooding in recent years, and are currently contending with drought. Among the sectors that are potentially most exposed are the state's red meat and wine industries. Primary producers, analysts and politicians are predicting a range of outcomes, from downturn in trade to potential opportunities.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Josephine Lim
Adelaide United defender Josh Cavallo, the first openly gay male professional footballer, says he still receives daily death threats since coming out more than three years ago. Speaking to FIFPRO's Footballers Unfiltered podcast with former English footballer Joe Hart, Cavallo shared how coming out when he was 21 years old brought a swell of toxicity and negativity into his life.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Thomas Kelsall |Arj Ganesan |Josephine Lim
Residents in Whyalla have welcomed the state government's decision to tip the Whyalla steelworks into administration. Workers and business owners say job losses and local business closures have been a continued stressor for locals. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier Peter Malinauskas will on Thursday reveal details of an "industry support package" for Whyalla.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Josephine Lim
A gusty change on Boxing Day will keep firefighters on "high alert" in South Australia as Adelaide faces its hottest Christmas Day for eight years. Fire authorities have warned of elevated bushfire risk on Christmas and Boxing days after four volunteers were injured while battling a blaze in Adelaide's southern suburbs on Monday night. Total fire bans have been issued for the Far West Coast and Mount Lofty Ranges on Christmas Day with extreme fire ratings.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Josephine Lim |Stephanie Richards
A killer driver has been handed a suspended sentence after causing a crash that left three people dead — an incident the judge described as a "true tragedy for everyone involved". Italian tourist Gabriele Cairo, 29, previously pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of Cynthia and John Clark and their 54-year-old daughter, Jacqueline Clark, in the crash which occurred in South Australia's Mid North last year.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Josephine Lim
Two men are expected to be charged and a family of three have been taken to hospital after a grass fire burnt through 33 hectares of grass in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Police said emergency services responded to the fire at 2:30pm on Saturday after reports it had been sparked by an angle grinder.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Josephine Lim
A disability advocate says people with disability who do not have access to the NDIS rely on family and friends to report abuse. A 26-year-old woman died on Monday after being found with "open wounds and sores" and living in "squalid conditions" in South Australia's far north. Police are investigating whether the woman's death was the result of criminal neglect.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jordanna Schriever |Josephine Lim
Darren Brown has been running a pub for 18 months but according to Google, it did not exist until Monday. The proprietor said he had gone to "every length" to prove to the tech giant that he owns The King William Hotel, formerly the Ambassadors Hotel in the Adelaide CBD, before reaching out to ABC Radio Adelaide. "People can't find us on Google," Mr Brown told ABC Radio Adelaide on Monday morning.
