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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.

Ron O'Brien lives most of the year wandering around his island home in solitude, living off-grid away from the pressures of the rat race. It's a "great lifestyle".

Hundreds of people have gathered on a beach in Adelaide's south to farewell teenage surfer Khai Cowley, who died after a shark attack on the Yorke Peninsula last month. 

While the South Australian government has rejected a shark cull in the wake of a third fatal attack in seven months, there are calls from some within the surfing community for other possible responses.

A 15-year-old boy killed by a shark at a popular tourism and surfing location on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula is being remembered as a "talented and dearly loved" young surfer.

A teenage boy has died in a shark attack near Ethel Beach — a popular spot for tourism and surfing on the south-western tip of South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.

An ecologist warns pet owners to keep predatory animals secure, after a cat is spotted on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia posing a threat to recently reintroduced brush-tailed bettongs.

A private college in Adelaide's north is fined $420,000 for breaching the Work Health and Safety Act after a teenage student drowned during a 2021 school camping trip.

A project to restore bettongs to the peninsula after they became locally extinct welcomes another 73 flown in from Western Australia.

A snapper fishing ban could be extended in waters off the coast of South Australia, following the release of new research showing stocks remain depleted.

Thirty-six bettongs have been relocated to Innes National Park on the Yorke Peninsula from Western Australia in a bid to strengthen their population. 

Officers are combing the beach at Marion Bay after a bag of cocaine was found on the shore in the town two days ago.

The Australian Federal Police is calling for help from the public for information about a blue and white cabin cruiser found between Kangaroo Island and the Yorke Peninsula last month.

A group of brush-tailed bettongs sent from an island off the SA coast is flourishing.

A small population of brush-tailed bettongs — some carrying young — are reintroduced to Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, where they have been locally extinct for more than 100 years.

Despite its size, the woylie can move tonnes of dirt each year and it's hoped these furry excavators can help bring new life back to degraded ecosystems. 

A teenager who drowned off a remote South Australian beach over the weekend is being remembered as a "cheerful" and "wonderful" student who died trying to help a friend.

The body of a 16-year-old Adelaide boy is found in waters off South Australia's Yorke Peninsula after he and four other people were swept off rocks at Browns Beach.

Police hold "grave concerns" for a boy who went missing on Saturday afternoon after a group of people were swept off the rocks at Brown's Beach.

A man in his 30s dies after falling off rocks into the sea on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula, while police end the second day of a search for a missing canoer at Milang.

Police are continuing their search for a 26-year-old man believed to have drowned in waters off the southern tip of South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.

A sleepy lizard road sign, inspired by a seven-year-old animal lover, pops up in a South Australian national park and is catching on elsewhere in the state.

It's hoped a 25-kilometre wire fence bisecting the Yorke Peninsula will keep feral pests out and native wildlife in — but farmers are not convinced.

Commercial fishers, country towns and amateur anglers have their say on how they will be affected by the ban on snapper fishing for the next three years.

NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award winner and Indigenous rights advocate Tauto Sansbury has died at his home in Adelaide, aged 70. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains images of a person who has died.