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Avian influenza is causing chaos for poultry fanciers interstate, and now South Australian agricultural shows are barring interstate entrants or cancelling events to keep the disease out.

Pole dancing has a raunchy reputation, but fitness instructor Stacey Windsor says its physical and mental health benefits can transform lives — and she's starting with her small home town. 

The South Australian RSPCA receives an influx of livestock welfare reports, with some animals starving to death.

The Umpherston Sinkhole is one of the most popular attractions in Mount Gambier but nearby, behind a tall fence, a similar one remains inaccessible to the public.

As he waits in Adelaide for a second brain operation, Jamie Chuck's friends in a small town in South Australia's south east are getting ready to run naked to cover his family's costs.

Breweries are increasingly turning to unusual and sustainable products and production methods to stand out in a competitive market.

Have you changed your coffee habits? One market expert says while the morning cafe cuppa continues, those on tight budgets are adding instant options to the mix later in the day. 

Five years after her daughter was murdered at the hands of her partner, Tammy Simpson is using her grief to call for lasting change.

Self-described nerdy couple Michael and Kirilee wanted to do away with modern tradition for their wedding so they borrowed customs from the 1500s. Their celebrant says they're part of a growing trend.

Little Blue Lake attracts thousands of tourists and cave divers from across the globe, but has no toilet facilities. Appalled residents say it's high time something is done to prevent people from relieving themselves in the water and car park at the site.

Residents of a town in South Australia's south-east are being enlisted in research into a shipwreck that killed 16 Dutch sailors in 1857 soon after offloading 400 gold miners from China.

A Nature Foundation fundraising campaign that received two donations of $100,000 from generous professors enables it to buy a 200-hectare property home to malleefowl and other rare species in south-east South Australia.

In a sight not seen in the area for more than two decades, male whales have been spotted racing and fighting to capture the attention of a female off SA's south-east coast.

A South Australian hobby farmer has had an early Easter gift with tiny sextuplet lambs born on his property. While triplets are common, this has been described as an "amazing feat".

Thousands of salmon were spotted surfacing and feeding near Cape Jaffa, South Australia, with one keen fisher capturing a video of the scene from above.

A council in South Australia's south-east becomes the third in South Australia to remove an Acknowledgement of Country from its council meeting procedures, disappointing Reconciliation South Australia and local elders.

Drastic measures to control the spread of abalone viral ganglioneuritis have been put in place, putting pressure on the fishing industry at SA's rock lobster capital.

A vast majority of psychiatrists in regional Australia say workforce shortages are negatively impacting patient care and those in the industry are experiencing high levels of stress and burnout.

Fereshteh Ahmadi doesn't have much money for art supplies, so her husband Mohammad Mohammadi has worked with the council in Bordertown to get her art on display — and it has received a very positive reception.

With appointments hard to get at local clinics, residents of some towns in rural South Australia are being forced to travel to regional centres to seek medical treatment, further reducing the variety of treatments that training doctors get to treat.

Water birthing is in place at some public and private hospitals in Australia, but women on SA's Limestone Coast want more people to have access to the practice.

As regional jetties around South Australia crumble into the ocean, councils are struggling to gather the funds to secure the future of the popular community assets. 

A national frog research team will look into the death of more than 200 frogs at Bool Lagoon alongside a number of other unexplained events. 

The feature in smart devices will play an increasingly important role in alerting emergency services to accidents and other incidents, a technology commentator says.

Nancy Wake famously rode about 500 kilometres in 72 hours, bluffing her way through Gestapo checkpoints to transmit a message. These riders will take a more leisurely approach to honour the war hero.