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Electricity companies that breach their licenses should be forced to compensate customers, an inquiry into a prolonged blackout in Far West New South Wales has found.

For more than a week, and with no end in sight, customers of Orroroo's only fuel station cannot top up and fear trips to the next bowser about 40 kilometres away if there's an emergency.

Locals say Golden North and the SA town of Laura are synonymous with each other, but the ice cream manufacturer is set to close its local factory. 

The state government has closed Cowell's Franklin Harbour, one of South Australia's biggest oyster growing regions, as a toxic algal bloom continues to spread in the state's waters.

The regional SA city's struggling smelter has received a bailout from the federal and state governments, but a resources expert says it will not be the end of Nyrstar's challenges.

People living with disability in regional South Australia say it is hard to navigate new career paths as they do not have enough employment opportunities in their towns. 

A highly experimental, nearly $700,000 "bubble curtain" will be installed next week hoping to protect cuttlefish and their eggs in the Upper Spencer Gulf from South Australia's toxic algal bloom.

At 33, house painter Jeff Morgan broke his hand and suffered a strange injury that unravelled his life. It was at the kitchen table, where his children were painting with watercolours, that he found his calling. 

Just a month after learning of a remote observatory run by a single volunteer, Rebecca Tayler and Richard Wilkin were handed its keys. These days, the observatory is part of a "star trail" for astronomy enthusiasts.

A 15-year-old is arrested and charged after another teen is found with serious stab wounds to his chest in South Australia.