Retailers upset with longer SA Easter break
Retailers are upset with a longer Easter break for SA next year, but the Tourism Council says there is more to SA than just shopping. It says the state is full of nature-based experiences and great...
View ArticleSansbury joins poll fight for Grey
A former ALP candidate for state politics has entered the contest for the federal seat of Grey at the coming election.
View ArticleGillard calls Federal election
After just over three weeks in the top job, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has confirmed the rumours from political commentators this week by asking the permission of Governor-General Quentin Bryce to...
View ArticleWhere to celebrate Australia Day in 2011
Australia Day - it's a day to celebrate all that's great about our country - and what it means to be an Aussie. For some it means bacon and eggs - with a bit of cooked tomato for brekkie. For others it...
View ArticleMeet South Australia's Australian of the Year finalists
Australia Day is not just a day for beaches and barbeques, but also an opportunity to recognise those who have contributed to the community.
View ArticleEx-pollies get Australia Day gongs
Former politicians at both the federal and state level are among those in South Australia's north and west region to be honoured in this year's Australia Day honours list.
View ArticleAmbulance workers honoured
Ambulance volunteers Matthew and Trish Leonard from Cleve have won South Australian Citizen of the Year awards.
View ArticleCouncil peddles cycle plans
The Port Pirie Regional Council hopes to make the city more cycle-friendly after this weekend's inaugural bike festival.
View ArticleWestern snatch victory in country footy comp
A representative Eyre Peninsula football team has beaten a combined Murray South-East squad in this year's Country Football Championships held at Port Pirie over the weekend.
View ArticleTowns planning dry New Year's Eve
Some of Yorke Peninsula's coastal towns will be alcohol-free areas this New Year's Eve, pending approval from the Liquor Licensing Commission.
View ArticleRural and remote Australians celebrate links to Melbourne Cup
Among all the noise and excitement of today's Melbourne Cup is the reason for the race itself - an 18-carat gold cup that the owner of the winning horse will take home.
View ArticleLocal leaders share in Australia Day gongs
Leaders in the food and wine industry have been among those to get the highest honours in South Australia's north and west region in today's Australia Day honours list.
View ArticleHorse history lights up Anzac Day
Communities around Australia woke in the morning darkness on Wednesday to gather for dawn Anzac Day services. In Gladstone, horses were silhouetted against the rising sun as they surrounded the...
View ArticleSA expat knighted in the Solomon Islands
Port Pirie born Bruce Saunders has not become an iron-clad medieval warrior, instead it is his battle for social improvement in the Solomon Islands that has seen him recently named a knight.
View ArticleBest baa none for royal visitors
Three merino sheep are making the long trip from country South Australia to Sydney for this week's royal visit.
View ArticleRegions prepare for Australia Day festivities
Preparations for Australia Day celebrations in South Australia are in full swing, with thousands of people expected to attend a variety of events throughout the north and west.
View ArticleSA achievers named in Aust Day honours list
A mid-north South Australian man who has been helping the Blyth community for more than 40 years was one of three people in the state's north and west to receive a Medal of the Order of Australia...
View ArticleRockford winemaker in rare interview
Barossa Valley winemaker Robert O'Callaghan is a man who deeply values the history and tradition of his craft. Although notoriously camera shy, he agreed to this interview with Leah MacLennan.
View ArticleSon's tribute highlight of Adelaide dawn service
A touching Ode of Remembrance at Adelaide's dawn service, then war veterans and supporters marched through Adelaide and at regional centres.
View ArticleComing together to celebrate Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal culture, history and achievements will be celebrated across our regions as NAIDOC week gets underway.
View ArticleElection countdown: What Whyalla wants
In 2011 the industrial city of Whyalla made national headlines when Tony Abbott announced that "Whyalla would be wiped off the map" by the carbon tax. Labor Minister Craig Emerson responded with his...
View ArticleThe candidates for Grey
Six candidates are up for the seat of Grey this federal election, South Australia's largest electorate which takes in more than 90% of the state.
View ArticleFederal election results for the seat of Grey
ABC North and West, and Eyre Peninsula, will provide coverage of the Grey electorate, giving you the results as they happen.
View ArticleDoctor, photographer snap up Australia Day gongs
A doctor and a photographer are among the recipients of Australia Day awards across South Australia's north, west and Eyre Peninsula.
View ArticleBurra Cheer-Up Ladies Band: Keeping the music alive during war's dark days
Read about how the Burra Cheer-Up Ladies Band kept a South Australian town's spirits high during World War I.
View ArticleThousands commemorate Anzac Day at marches and services across South Australia
Young and old are remembering fallen Australian soldiers at Anzac Day ceremonies across South Australia. About 10,000 people rose early for the dawn service at the War Memorial on North Terrace to pay...
View ArticleBlow darts and broken bones: WWII veterans recall military service
"As year follows year, more old men disappear," sang Eric Bogle in his anti-war classic The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. "Someday no-one will march there at all." Bogle's song was written about World...
View ArticleAntarctic explorer's dream leads to senior citizens scooter trek across the...
A former Antarctic explorer's dream has led to a group of senior citizens crossing the Nullarbor on motor scooters.
View ArticleAustralia Day honours: Regional South Australian recipients revealed
Many regional South Australians have been recognised in this year's Australia Day honours, including Robert Bowring, Henry Jones, Pamela O'Connor, Claire Welch and Rae Brewster.
View ArticleAnzac Day 2015: Regional SA prepares to honour Anzac spirit amid centenary...
Thousands of people are expected to gather at Anzac centenary commemorations across regional South Australia tomorrow.
View ArticleYorke Peninsula Field Days in Paskeville celebrates 120 years of agricultural...
The Yorke Peninsula Field Days in South Australia, believed to be the oldest such event for showcasing farming equipment, is celebrating 120 years of history as it kicks off today.
View ArticleElection 2016: Arrium promised $100m lifeline from Federal Labor as...
Struggling Whyalla steelmaker Arrium is pledged a $100 million lifeline from Federal Labor, if it wins the election.
View ArticleElection 2016: Life in Australia's 'big six' electorates of Durack, Lingiari,...
Together, the "big six" electorates of Durack, Lingiari, Grey, O'Connor, Kennedy and Maranoa comprise roughly 78 per cent of the Australia land mass. What drives a politician to want to cover that kind...
View ArticleElection 2016: Government promises $49.2 million lifeline for steelmaker Arrium
The Federal Government is promising to throw stricken steelmaker Arrium a $49.2 million lifeline which it says will protect around 2,700 jobs in South Australia.
View ArticleElection 2016: Nick Xenophon Team polls well as battle for Grey heats up
The South Australian electorate of Grey is shaping up to be a key battleground in the coming election with the Nick Xenophon Team candidate vowing to vote for what is best for the community if she wins.
View ArticleElection 2016: Poll suggests Nick Xenophon Team could take lower house seats...
New polling suggests Nick Xenophon's party could snatch seats in the lower house from the Coalition as well as several Senate spots.
View ArticleElection 2016: Liberals and Nick Xenophon Team head-to-head in Grey
The safe Liberal seat of Grey in South Australia will go down to the wire as the Nick Xenophon Team gets within striking distance.
View ArticleElection 2016: Grey a hope for NXT as Nick Xenophon ready for talks on hung...
The Nick Xenophon Team says it is "line ball" it might snare a second Lower House seat in South Australia and it is ready to discuss a way forward in the event of a hung parliament.
View ArticleElection 2016: Rowan Ramsey declares victory in South Australian seat of Grey
Liberal Rowan Ramsey claims victory in South Australia's regional seat of Grey, but the Xenophon contender says she is not giving up yet.
View ArticleSouth Australian outback voters disillusioned by major parties
The ABC speaks to voters in South Australia's outback about the issues that matter to them this election.
View ArticleAnzac Day 2018: Who made the first Anzac biscuit?
Most family recipes tell a story, but none so much, or with as much mystery still surrounding it, as the Anzac biscuit.
View ArticleVeterans in brass band banned from performing at commemorative events
Veterans involved with Whyalla Community Brass band are outraged that they have been banned from performing at future local RSL commemorative events, saying the military and brass bands go hand-in-hand.
View ArticleMake-up classes held for teenage girls as they feel pressure of social media,...
Make-up course organiser Larissa Jones says parents can't ignore the pressure their children feel to wear make-up and it is better to coach them and let them talk about their insecurities.
View ArticleAnzacs buried in unmarked graves across Australia could number 12,000
The remains of 12,000 World War I diggers are believed to be buried in unmarked graves not at Gallipoli or the fields of Flanders, but in suburban cemeteries across Australia.
View ArticleOne of Australia's most tragic WWI family losses, with four brothers killed...
A chance finding among the bric-a-brac at a backyard auction in Port Lincoln results in a 12-year journey that uncovers one of Australia's most tragic family losses from war.
View ArticleA remote South Australian military museum is preserving history, but its...
A war veteran in outback South Australia is saving war memorabilia from being discarded, sold online, and hidden away in storage.
View ArticleWild dog fence funding pledge of $25 million to fix 1,600km welcomed by South...
The Coalition has promised to fix 1,600km of SA's dog fence if it returns to government, an announcement warmly received after almost 20,000 sheep were lost to wild dogs last year.
View ArticleThis federal election, South Australia has been feeling the political cold...
South Australian voters watching party leaders cut a trail through marginal seats across the country could be justified in feeling like they have been left in the dust with the state barely rating a...
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