Meet Brand's Laira, the Coonawarra Winery With Vines From 1893 and a Cellar Door Built for Weddings
A baker bought a Coonawarra block with two hectares of Shiraz in 1950. Today its 1893 vines still make the winery's flagship red, and the glass-walled cellar door built around Eric Brand's original shed hosts weddings for up to 150 guests.
Meet Hastwell & Lightfoot, the McLaren Vale Family Winery With an Award-Winning Wedding Venue Among the Vines
Two families planted vines on Foggo Road in 1988. Today the second generation of Hastwells makes gold-medal Barbera and Vermentino, and hosts weddings in an Oak Room that has collected South Australian venue awards two years running.
A $109 Million Lifeline for SA's Struggling Wine Industry — With Loans to Switch Crops
Growers can borrow up to $500,000 with no repayments for two years to move away from grapes, as the Malinauskas government confronts the oversupply that has plagued the $2.4 billion industry since the pandemic.
Decision Day: SA Liberals Vote on Making Alex Antic Their President
The party's state council votes today on whether the right-wing senator takes a presidency that carries a seat alongside Angus Taylor and Tony Abbott on the Liberals' federal executive.
Fake Tickets and a Czech Area Code: Scam Site Targets Adelaide's MotoGP a Year Out
A website posing as the official ticket seller for Adelaide's November 2027 street race is circulating on social media, the state government warns — complete with misinformation, AI content and a Czechia-based area code.
SA's Flu Season Is Running Late — and Cases Are Now on the Rise
Influenza numbers in South Australia are well below last year's, but SA Health says they are climbing — part of an unusually late national surge that experts say echoes pre-pandemic seasons.
BOM Rebuilds Its Rain Radar, Nearly a Year After the Website Backlash
Radar locations, range rings and sharper rainfall display arrive almost a year after the bureau's widely criticised $96.5 million website revamp — with more changes promised.
Olivia Colman, McDonagh and 122 Films: Adelaide Film Festival Unveils Its 2026 Program
122 films from 52 countries, 10 world premieres, Olivia Colman in Adelaide-born Eleanor Wilson's Wicker and a Martin McDonagh spy thriller on opening night — the program for October 14–25 has landed.
The $1 Bakery Sold for Millions: A Balfour Descendant Takes Over Port Adelaide's Mayfair
Phil Donnelly bought Mayfair Bakery for a dollar at 21 and built it into a national gluten-free cheesecake force. Now he is handing the 1870-founded brand to Kris Moroney — baking royalty by blood.
Toby Greene Is Leaving the Giants, With an Expected Move to Geelong
After 15 seasons, 450 goals and the captaincy, the Giants' foundation star is heading home to Victoria — days after Port Adelaide's Zak Butters picked the Bulldogs in the same free-agency shuffle.
Backpacker Ballots and Overstay Crackdowns: What Labor's Migration Overhaul Means
Tony Burke's long-awaited package targets 245,000 net migration this year with student-family limits, 100 new compliance officers and a working-holiday ballot with regional work strings — as farm regions worry about harvest labour.
The Citizen Scientists Keeping Watch on Victor Harbor Dolphins as Bird Flu Looms
The volunteers who caught the algal bloom's first foam are now scanning their catalogue of 140 bottlenose and 50 common dolphins for neurological signs — after Australia's first dolphin bird-flu case at Goolwa and a suspected sea lion case nearby.
The Key SA Wave Buoy Heading Back to Sea for a Third Time After Lightning Strikes
The Cape du Couedic buoy — the Bureau of Meteorology's only wave buoy in SA — has worked about 10 months in two years, felled by bad data, a snapped mooring and now lightning. Divers and fishers want the basics fixed.
SA Reform Trains Midwives to End Long Waits for Sexual Assault Examinations
Only 12 trained forensic examiners serve the whole state — three of them outside Adelaide. New regulations flowing from the royal commission will let midwives with 40 hours of training join them.
Smart Glasses Are in the Sights of Adelaide City Council and a Fringe Venue
A councillor wants restrictions investigated for the parklands, libraries and meeting halls, Gluttony is weighing its own ban, and a Greens bill lands next month — while advocates for vision-impaired users urge everyone to slow down.
All This Money, What For: The Uncomfortable Question Hanging Over Whyalla
The blast furnace is closing for good at a cost of more than 600 jobs, 18 months and nearly $3 billion in committed public funds after the steelworks hit administration — and a Whyalla cafe worker just asked the question out loud.
The Geologist Hunting an Underwater Volcano Off the SA Coast
Three strange reefs 20 kilometres off Beachport, mapped in a 1960s oil survey, might be lava flows from a sub-sea eruption tied to SA's largest earthquake in 1897 — and Ian Lewis wants to dive down and tap the rocks to find out.
SA Housing Trust Apologises Over Black Mould Left in Tenant's Home for Four Years
The SA Ombudsman found a four-year delay in dealing with a tenant's black mould reports "unreasonable" — works orders raised then cancelled, no testing until this April, and a tenant with a lung condition left living in it.
The Pretty Garden Escapee Choking SA Paddocks, and the Trials Trying to Kill It
Gazanias are wiping out cereal crops in the Riverland and on the Eyre Peninsula — now La Trobe trials backed by $700,000 of grains money are killing up to 95 per cent of them, though no herbicide is yet registered.
Sturt and Norwood Meet in a SANFL Grand Final Still Haunted by 1978
Norwood and Sturt renew a 67-premiership rivalry at Adelaide Oval on Sunday — 48 years after an umpire's admitted wrong call and a one-point Redlegs boilover that Sturt fans still bring up at 7am.