The Latest Breaking News from Adelaide

Space industry sets sights on launching Australia's next astronaut with help of $65 million funding boost

Australia moves one step closer to launching its next astronaut into space, more than 16 years after Adelaide's Andy Thomas touched back down to Earth.

ABC News · Feb 25, 2022

Hit-and-run suspected after body of man found on roadside at Sedan, police appeal for witnesses

Police believe a 70-year-old man, whose body was found on the roadside north-east of Adelaide last night, was the victim of a hit-and-run.

ABC News · Feb 23, 2022

Moana man apologises in court over Seaford road rage incident where he drove at witness

A court has heard it was "sheer luck" that a drunk driver who used his car as a weapon in a road rage incident in Adelaide's south did not kill anyone.

ABC News · Feb 23, 2022

Adelaide fruit fly outbreak over after PIRSA declares Ridleyton area free of pest

All Adelaide residents will be able to move fruit and vegetables between suburbs with an outbreak in the city's north-west declared over.

ABC News · Feb 21, 2022

A new exhibition explores invisible data, from facial algorithms to satellite tracking as a return to Country

Review: Invisibility, MOD museum, Adelaide

The Conversation · Feb 21, 2022

Bonsai plants stolen from Mawson Lakes back garden, prompting police investigation

Police are investigating the theft of more than 20 bonsai trees from the back garden of a home in Adelaide's north earlier this month.

ABC News · Feb 21, 2022

Victorian koalas sent to Adelaide to improve genetic diversity

Four male koalas are sent from Victorian plantation forests in Gippsland to Adelaide as part of a breeding program to shore up the future of the species.

ABC News · Feb 21, 2022

Broken Hill's Adrian Isbill tackles 512km challenge to raise money for paediatric cancer research

Each month Adrian Isbill's family travels 512 kilometres to Adelaide for his son's cancer treatment. This month he'll do that distance running, riding and rowing to raise funds for paediatric cancer research.

ABC News · Feb 21, 2022

Hit-and-run driver Jakob Thomas Johnson sentenced to almost three years' prison for 2021 crash at Daw Park

An Adelaide man who injured an innocent motorist in a high-speed, hit-run crash during an attempt to evade police is sentenced to almost three years in jail with a judge warning him he could kill someone if he does not change his driving behaviour.

ABC News · Feb 21, 2022

Labor leader Peter Malinauskas announces plan to 'fix the ramping crisis' during campaign launch at Adelaide Oval

Premier Steven Marshall criticises Labor leader Peter Malinauskas's health care plans, while Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce visits Adelaide for the SA Nationals campaign launch.

ABC News · Feb 20, 2022