Malcolm Sutton

Some of the state's most talented surfers are creating serious ripples on the national and international competitive circuit, but the path to compete at the highest levels is a costly one and there's little government support.

Young students from the Adelaide Hills serving lunch to elderly members of the community are developing key social skills and learning about the wider world, which an expert says puts them in good stead for the future.

Ian Scobie has honed his strategy for attracting class acts to Womadelaide since its launch in 1992. And he still gets his biggest thrills watching audiences get blown away. 

Gratte Ciel director Stéphane Girard says the company is used to generating headlines about the duck feathers it uses in its aerial ballet, and welcomes discussion about animal products.

A mysterious condition is proving fatal to the Port Adelaide pod, renowned for its tricks and aerial flips. Without answers, a passionate community of followers is worried they may be lost altogether.

After retiring from competitive bodybuilding in 2009, Phil bought a dark blue Corvette and a Batman mask to bring random acts of fun to Adelaide's roads.

The festival, which includes headline acts Something for Kate, Jebediah and South Australia's own Bad Dreems, will be held in April after two previous attempts were postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Womadelaide has grown in 30 years from small beginnings in Adelaide's Botanic Park, but so too have the trees its musical notes have bounced about, with one particular tree having a lot to say.

A colourful fundraiser that has seen people push their physical limits or twirl hula hoops while upside down raises more than $55,000 for cancer research in the name of Charlie Stevens, who died at three.

A philanthropic arts organisation that has supported famed writers like Hannah Kent, Tim Winton and Trent Dalton is celebrating its 10-year anniversary at Adelaide Writers' Week. 

The founder of the Adelaide Roller Derby league, Sarah Strong-Law — aka Barrelhouse Bessy — died in a car accident on Kangaroo Island last week.

SA's top traffic cop says drivers blocking traffic by failing to keep left are being "selfish". It comes as police crackdown on tailgaters by issuing more fines and fewer cautions.

Concerns about disposable masks littering the environment and creating hazards for marine life and birds promotes Clean Up Australia to launch a citizen science project.

Bob Dylan songs that espoused social justice would have failed if the great songwriter had to self-censor to appease today's perpetrators of cancel culture, says Drones frontman Gareth Liddiard. 

A council wants the state government to ban balloons as a part of a growing list of single-use plastic products getting phased out in South Australia.

A fisher's camera lowered with bait from his kayak off Adelaide's coast is revealing some "hectic" marine scenes that are snagging tens of thousands of online viewers.

Australians who drank more during the height of the pandemic are being left with a nasty hangover, the Alcohol and Drug Foundation says, and some risk entrenching it as a way of life.

The entire metropolitan train network will be closed for the Adelaide Fringe opening weekend as the completion date for the maligned Gawler Line electrification project is delayed again.

Radio presenter Spence Denny was so nervous when he started his career that he almost failed to cue the song from a Cold Chisel record, nerves that returned during a farewell interview after 33 years with the ABC.

Victor Harbor's new causeway officially opens in a ceremony alongside the existing heritage structure, which is flagged for demolition from February.

Stand-out Archibald Prize works will be hung in the Art Gallery of SA for the first time in 2022, along with a Japanese installation that will bring with it an infinity room of sculptured pumpkins.

State Governments so far have been rewarded for their efforts to keep COVID-19 at bay, but in SA, where borders have been reopened to the Eastern states, pundits are predicting no such niceties.

Garry Stewart reflects on his glittering career with the Australian Dance Theatre as his final show gets underway in Adelaide.

Some 135,000 South Australians are relying on the Foodbank charity for groceries every month as rising living costs continue to eat away at household food budgets.

A third dolphin is found dead inside the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary with all showing similar symptoms of illness before they died, but an interim investigation is no closer to finding the cause.