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.