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Thunderstorms are likely to hit Australia's south-east over the weekend as "very humid" weather normally felt in the Far North takes hold, the Bureau of Meteorology warns.

According to data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, patients are waiting longer in public emergency departments to see a doctor. 

SA Police will ask the Director of Public Prosecutions to consider appealing the suspended sentence given to a woman who assaulted a pregnant police officer.

The environmental watchdog has reached a $100,000 civil settlement against a salt mining company four years after the destruction of hectares of mangrove forest in Adelaide's north. 

Lauren Willgoose has been found guilty of causing the death of prominent neuropsychologist, Anthony Walsh, in June 2021. 

An Adelaide lawyer who drank 1.15 litres of wine before crashing into prominent neuropsychologist Anthony Walsh has been found guilty.

A salt mining company has paid $100,000 as part of a civil settlement following the dieback of hectares of mangrove forest in Adelaide's north.

Each state requires people to have lived there for at least 12 months to access voluntary assisted dying. Linda was the first person in NSW to receive an exemption to this rule.

Clifford Neumann will spend more than 20 years in jail after planning and carrying out the murder of Victoria Stewart in 2023. 

Clifford Neumann will spend more than 20 years in jail after planning and carrying out the murder of mother-of-five Victoria Stewart.

Raina Cruise has been given a good behaviour bond for assaulting a police officer and two security guards while "particularly fired-up" after attending an anti-COVID vaccination rally in 2021.

The ramping crisis which first emerged in Adelaide 15 years ago is "not about people coming in with a cut finger" but a global issue requiring broader solutions than bigger hospitals, an inquest into the deaths of three people has heard. 

A new report by the Business Council of Australia has found South Australia has some of the best business conditions in the country. 

Mobile detection cameras have so far caught thousands of drivers using their phones illegally in Adelaide. But some have discovered you might still be doing the wrong thing, even if you are not touching your phone with your hands. 

The "main issue" for police handling domestic violence matters is finding a way to encourage coercive control victims to confide in them when non-contact orders have been breached, a senior police officer has told the inquest into the murder-suicide of Kobi and Henry Shepherdson.

Driving in later life can bring its own challenges, and while rules around older road users vary widely across the country, options for navigating those challenges include licence assessments and conversations around so-called "driving retirement". 

Another heatwave is predicted across Australia this week, as the weather bureau confirms the nation just sizzled through its hottest spring on record.

With more heat waves predicted as the effects of climate change intensify, authorities say people must stay vigilant against the dangers of extreme heat.

The South Australian government is urgently seeking to restart two mothballed diesel-powered generators as it warns the state is at risk of blackouts this summer.

A report finds the Murray-Darling Basin "continues to decline" and the multi-billion-dollar plan to try to save it has not improved its health.