The Latest Breaking News from SA

Six people were door knocked and moved to safer locations after an evacuation order from the SA SES last night.

Disposable nappies are convenient but come at a huge cost to the environment. Efforts are underway near Adelaide to recycle some of the hundreds of millions that end up in Australian landfill every year.

WARNING: Readers may find details in this story distressing. The opening day of an inquest hears SA child protection authorities did not intervene in the 10 days before an 11-week-old boy died in "disgusting squalor" because one of its regional offices "had no capacity to deal with the notification".

River Murray flood victims will have access to more funds for emergency accommodation, SA Premier Peter Malinauskas has announced.

A man and a teenage boy face court, accused of raping two young women in a car park off Hindley Street in Adelaide's CBD over the weekend.

The South Australian State Emergency Service has issued its first specific flood warning for residents in Renmark as Murray River water levels continue to rise.

Federal and state Labor heavyweights are going toe-to-toe on nuclear energy, with the SA premier suggesting safety concerns are overblown.

Six Aboriginal leaders will be shortlisted from more than 100 nominations to have new statues built, as part of a $1 million project to honour First Nations history in SA.

If the rest of the population had reacted the same way as these selfish few, they would have been dying in the tens of thousands.

Authorities have almost completed levee work to protect the town of Renmark, the first SA community to feel the impact of floodwaters surging down the Murray.

A strong pace bowling effort has given South Australia the advantage in their Shield match in Hobart, leading Tasmania by almost 300 runs after day two.