Drill to simulate mid-city attack
EMERGENCY services will hone their preparations for terrorism when they respond to a mock shooting involving dozens of people today.
View ArticleDesigner Direct director left with 'zilch'
FAILED discount store Designer Direct was trading while insolvent more than six months before the business collapsed, its administrator says.
View ArticleRural sector's $2bn rebound
A STRONG rebound is predicted for the state's rural sector this year and the grain crop is tipped to reach $2 billion.
View ArticleAdelaide dumped as Tiger rethinks
LOW-COST carrier Tiger Airways has again left travellers in the lurch, halting its Brisbane-Adelaide and Gold Coast-Adelaide flights.
View ArticleMaths, science 'all a bit too hard'
HIGH school students perceive maths, science, engineering and technology subjects as too hard, boring and irrelevant, a study shows.
View ArticleBureaucrat axing probe 'private'
A PARLIAMENTARY committee has heard a bureaucrat resigned after an inquiry into claims she pressured two married public servants to take redundancy.
View ArticleDams at highest levels since '02
WINTER rain has delivered a major boost to the River Murray, lifting its four key storages to 50 per cent of capacity for the first time since 2002.
View ArticleTriple M breakfast bombshell
THEY were the darlings of breakfast radio - staging a sensational defection - but now Kym, Ali and Dzelde have called it quits.
View ArticleWoman arrested over stabbing
A KILBURN woman, 33, has been arrested over the stabbing of a man during a brawl between two groups last night.
View ArticleWater restrictions will stay
WATER restrictions will remain in force across South Australia despite Victorians being given new freedom to water their gardens at will.
View ArticleFugitive dog-napper 'a spiritual man'
FUGITIVE dog owner Ronnie Gilbertson is a highly-principled, spiritual man who only disobeyed a judge because "love clouded his judgment', a court has heard.
View ArticleCareer criminal shot partygoer
A MAN who spent his early life on a "treadmill of criminality" has been jailed for nine years for shooting and killing a new year's reveller.
View ArticleLeg lost over $20 taxi fare
A TAXI driver has admitted running down a boy who refused to pay a $20 fare leaving him with injuries that required a leg amputation.
View ArticleStabbed youth 'blamed rival gang'
THE son of alleged New Boys gang leader Vince Foccarelli said "Notorious got me" after he was stabbed, a court has heard.
View ArticleCrashes as hail causes havoc
MOTORISTS are being warned to take care tonight after slippery roads caused by rain and hail led to a spate of car crashes in the Adelaide Hills this afternoon.
View ArticleAdelaide Uni staff win 18pc pay rise
UNIVERSITY of Adelaide academics have won an 18 per cent pay rise over 4½ years under a new enterprise agreement which includes the capping of staff hours.
View ArticleMore rain, less heat forecast for spring
FOLLOWING a cool and wet August, the weather bureau is now forecasting a cold and wet spring for Adelaide.
View ArticleCounsellors axed from WCH
STAFF confronted by illness and tragedy at the Women's and Children's Hospital are about to lose the shoulder they have been crying on for the past 40 years.
View ArticleStorm over toxic Port River soil
MOUNDS of toxic soil, blamed for contaminating a primary school with cancer-causing dust two years ago, have eroded and some has washed into the Port River.
View ArticleRedundancy offer for all public servants
ROLLING targeted separation packages with no restrictions will be offered to state public servants when the Budget is finally delivered on September 16.
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