Paul Ashenden

It’s only 100km or so from Murray Bridge to Alberton, but it’s been a much longer journey for Power key defender Brandon Zerk-Thatcher to find his football home.

Tomato growers crippled by an infectious virus threatening their industry have blasted the “soul-destroying” national response as inept, ill-informed and a massive over-reaction.

Former state government minister Patrick Conlon has placed fixing Coober Pedy’s decrepit water system on top of his to-do list as he aims to make his position as the town’s administrator redundant.

David Cooper steadies himself over the ball before taking a quick look up the driving range.

There’s a lot of copper here. Rows and rows of it, all stacked into bundles and lined up neatly on the concrete in the searing heat at Olympic Dam.

Locals in the tiny Mid North town of Yatina are angry that their town’s name will again be in the headlines when a new search begins for two girls who vanished at Adelaide Oval more than 50 years ago.

Plans to turn hundreds of square kilometres of farm land into houses have the potential to rob the state of 57 million loaves of bread a year, independent analysis shows.

Regional communities will be given tools to help both themselves and others cope with the mental strain of the record-breaking drought under a program to be unveiled across the state.

Former Opposition leader David Speirs will be one of a group of trekkers bound for the Kokoda Track next month to raise money and awareness about men’s mental health.

In the middle of the Papua New Guinean jungle, surrounded by nine men she barely knows, Alice Colgrave removes her top for a once-in-a-lifetime photo.