Sam Bradbrook

A study finds local sporting clubs are taking steps to improve their members' mental health, but some need support to implement "best practice" initiatives.

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 lawyer for a South Australian man accused of killing his partner in 2022 says it was done in self-defence, with a witness saying she was told the pair had taken drugs before the woman was repeatedly struck in the head with a metal weapon.

Mount Gambier has one of the quickest-growing housing markets in Australia, but concerns over water and sewerage infrastructure bring new home builds to a standstill.

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. 

As an "over-allocated" groundwater plan review begins, a decades-old drain gone empty has a farming family in South Australia worried about the future of the Limestone Coast's water resources.

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

Two greyhounds have died in 10 days at the same regional SA race track, prompting calls for action.

A Broken Hill woman running a support group for people affected by sexual violence says talking about the problem can help remove the shame and stigma for victim-survivors in small towns.

Mount Gambier woman Anelia Blackie has for the past three years had to make an uncomfortable five-hour car trip to Adelaide for treatment of the cancer in her spine.

An Kingston SE man in his 80s will likely die in prison after he was sentenced for sexually abusing children across 30 years. 

More than 16,000 Chinese gold prospectors landed in Robe in the 1850s and 1860s on the way to the Victorian gold fields, but records are scarce on what really happened. 

Control measures have been extended for a deadly abalone disease in SA's South East, but the benefits of protecting that industry could be surpassed by the damage to lobster fishers.

Researchers uncover new information about the coldest times in the continent's history by studying a system of caves on South Australia's Limestone Coast.

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.

Ruth Mott has spent her life working as a farmer, nurse and justice of the peace, but for five years she struggled to find a job.

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.

Varcoe Windmills were first built in Mount Gambier in 1911 but after its doors closed last year, the brand seemed lost for good, until a local agricultural mechanic bought the rights at an auction.

A court has heard a Mount Gambier man allegedly hid drugs inside his rectum in an attempt to take them into the local prison but one of them split, causing him to overdose.

The surviving family of Brevet Sergeant Jason Doig says it supports plans to erect a memorial to him in Lucindale, as SA Police looks to fill his role in the small country town.

The RSPCA says more than half of the members of a committee into the future of duck hunting attended a hunting lobby group dinner while they were still hearing evidence.

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. 

A new study finds the 98 per cent of Australians with access to reliable drinking water want to help the remaining 2 per cent going without. 

Authorities are investigating the site of a mass fish-kill on South Australia's Limestone Coast, where they believe more freshwater than usual has entered the ocean at Eight Mile Creek.

A two-truck crash on the Dukes Highway in South Australia leaves sheep roaming the roadside, and nearby residents calling for more lanes.