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The state’s top cop says there has been no ”uptick” in youth crime, instead claiming the age of responsibility debate had put a spotlight on the issue.  The “insidious” practice of “stealthing” will be explicitly outlawed in South Australia, after the government announced it would support legislation to criminalise the behaviour.  Checking in baggage on flights has become fraught with anxiety, wit...

South Australia’s much-vaunted advantage from renewable energy has been debunked by a top-level inquiry finding lower wholesale prices are not being passed on to consumers.  South Australians have shrugged off consecutive interest rate rises and a surge in living costs to remain confident about the economy and their ability to spend up big or even change jobs.  An alleged voter scam in the Adelaid...

A household with a $750,000 home loan will soon find itself making the same size monthly repayments as it cost to service $1 million of borrowing just six months ago. Premier Peter Malinauskas is rejecting “substandard” $200m plans for an Adelaide First Nations Cultures centre after a $50m cost blowout, freezing the project and ordering a review by “eminent Australians”. A Teenager who has confess...

South Australian schools have failed to achieve national average marks in any of the annual NAPLAN tests, raising serious questions about the state’s education system.  There are fears problem gamblers are losing money on the pokies at a faster rate, with more than three-quarters of machines in South Australian venues now accepting bank notes.  There are only six more sleeps to go before Giant San...

Ash Barty has revealed the moment she knew her tennis career had to end, one of many insights in her autobiography My Dream Time. Adelaide’s radio waves have undergone one of their most dramatic days in years. Federal Government focusing on regulations to stop cyber assaults. Babies are in line for a new lifesaving jab next winter to protect them from the deadly Respiratory Syncytial Virus. For up...

A BHP executive says countries should look to their natural advantages when providing baseload power in a low emissions environment. SA Country Women’s Association members are in the dark about their ousted state president Davina Quirke. New predictions of 135 gigalitres per day along the River Murray by early December. A second former relief teacher at a Rostrevor school has been arrested for all...

Police arrest three youths after the shocking stabbing of a nine-year-old boy and his mother at Unley on Sunday morning. An Adelaide truck driver has died after he was crushed by his lorry. La Niña predicted to end in early 2023. Warren Tredrea’s dispute with Channel 9 may avoid going to trial. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at advertiser.com.au See omnyst...

An ambitious plan to build one million homes and cheaper childcare for more than 1.2 million families spearhead the federal budget. Commuters will be able to “tap-and-pay” on board all forms of public transport in Adelaide. Police are investigating whether human remains found on a Salisbury South lot are linked to one of the state’s recent missing persons cases. Common over-the-counter vapes being...

Senior Women’s and Children’s doctors will review why a young stabbed boy was forced to wait several hours to see a doctor for treatment. The rising River Murray could force ambulances to drive patients an extra 44km to receive emergency care. The head of SafeWork SA has denied the Adelaide Football Club was “cleared” of any wrongdoing over its infamous 2018 pre-season camp. Racing SA has appointe...

Young boy forced to wait several hours to see a doctor after being stabbed by car thieves outside the family’s Adelaide home. Surf life saving community’s been praised by the young man attacked by a shark. Boy Wonder from Berlin is safely back home after terrifying fall overseas. Jamie Kah has her sights set on winning the race that stops a nation. For updates and breaking news throughout the day...

Companies that fail to protect Australians’ personal data will face fines of hundreds of millions of dollars under new laws. Cate Blanchett’s enchanted by South Australia’s film industry. Adelaide’s soared into the ranks of the world’s most expensive cities. Rush to repair Renmark’s dilapidated flood defences takes on new urgency. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscri...

Counsel for the fifteen year old South Plympton boy tell the Youth Court their client would plead guilty to all charges laid against him. Cabinet Minister Geoff Brock opens up as part of The Advertiser’s Can We Talk campaign. Huge changes to SA’s trading hours laws. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at advertiser.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Upcoming weather doesn’t appear to be as severe as last week, with widespread heavy falls predicted for Sunday now “off the table”. Adelaide 36ers have teamed up with a leading sports mentoring company to offer the new SACE-accredited course. Vince Colosimo has been spared jail despite admitting driving high on the drug ice for a second time. Former Port Adelaide football star Chad Cornes is engag...

Nationals senator Matt Canavan has challenged Cricket Australia Test captain Pat Cummins over dumped Alinta Energy deal. The barrister for Bruce Lehrmann has told a jury that the prosecution’s case that his client raped Brittany Higgins is “untenable”. State may struggle to finish the North South Corridor on time unless the federal government helps cover a potential cost blowout. Adelaide is rolli...

The Don’t Let Meth Take Hold campaign is based on research showing how minimal use of the drug can have lifelong health consequences. An AUKUS visa will be considered by the Albanese government to ensure Australia has enough skilled workers. The Victor Codea murder trial has been hit by a “wrecking ball”. No “smoking gun” involved in Marina Go’s decision to step down as the chair of Netball Austra...

Suicides among children and teenagers in South Australia have reached the highest level in a decade.  Australia's national netball team has been caught up in a row over its failure to wear the logo of its financial saviour.  Almost 80,000 South Australian children live in households where skipping meals and even food for a day is common as rocketing cost-of-living pressures hit families.  Former L...

Brittany Higgins has pointed a finger across a hushed courtroom and spoke directly to her accused rapist, Bruce Lehrmann, telling him: “Nothing was fine after what you did to me.”  South Australian grain farmers are set to reap the most valuable crop on record, forecast to be as much as $4bn.  The Advertiser has spoken with some of the fresh, young faces who have nominated in the upcoming local go...

The d river of a luxury supercar which left the road, killing a teenage girl and injuring her best friend, has been spared jail.  The “emergency phase” of the Covid pandemic officially ended today at 12.01am as virtually all legal restrictions were removed, including mandatory isolation if people test positive and wearing masks in public if positive.  Lily Baulderstone was just 12 years old  when...

Family and friends of Sturt footballers and officials caught up in the 2002 terror attacks in Bali gathered at an emotional memorial service to mark 20 years since loved ones were lost and lives changed forever.    The sale of the West End brewery in Thebarton has moved  a step closer as an archaeological dig  on the site draws to an end.  Energy experts have cast doubts on Anthony Albanese’s key...

Failing aged care homes across South Australia are letting residents suffer in pain, leaving them sitting in their own faeces, not attending to their wounds properly and using drugs to keep them sedated.  One of the state’s best-known lawyers is the subject of an unsatisfactory conduct investigation by the legal watchdog following a scathing Supreme Court judgment that exposed his conflict of inte...

The wife of a man who tragically died in the Canadian Rockies has thanked him for inviting her into his world of adventure. Direct entry and exit access from an upgraded South Rd will be built to the Adelaide Crows’ proposed new HQ. A home handyman, who did work on well-known trauma specialist Dr Bill Griggs’ Goolwa South holiday home, is facing a string of charges. Metropolitan councils have sold...

Only one of several fights at Golden Grove High School that were made public last week was reported to police. NCA bomber Domenic Perre is likely to die in jail and will have to live into his late 90s for any hope of being released over his infamous 1994 crime. Hot chip lovers may soon have to pay more for the salty snack amid fears of an impending shortage of the fast-food favourite. And.. WHEN h...

With one in four families living below the poverty line there are calls for a free breakfast program in state schools to be  extended to include lunches for an estimated 75,000 children living in extreme poverty. An experienced high school principal and leadership adviser can be revealed as the man drafted to help turn around troubled Golden Grove High School. The junior heir to one of the most po...

Besieged clinicians have called the doctors’ union to inspect the Royal Adelaide Hospital over alleged safety breaches three times this week, as the health system continues to buckle under stress. City business owners say it is lucky no one was killed when large perspex panels and metal framing fell from the facade of a high-rise CBD building during the state’s wild weather. Adelaide resident Chri...

Strained South Australian household budgets have taken another hit after the Reserve Bank hiked interest rates for a sixth consecutive month. More than 12,000 South Australians were without power this evening, with wild weather leaving a southern suburbs shopping centre in the dark and trees down across the city. Disgraced Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is being fed by a tube and no longer abl...