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

Lewis Hanna moved to South Australia in the hope of a quiet life running a country town's general store. But about a year later, he was attacked by a man upset over being asked for the dollar he owed for a carton of beer.

Plans for a large rare earths mining project is meeting resistance from south-east farmers, who worry some of South Australia's best farmland will be lost.

Luke Thomson was known as a confident and outgoing footy coach, so his mates were surprised when he was diagnosed with anxiety and depression.

In an Australian first, artificial intelligence will be used in South Australia's Green Triangle forestry region to monitor for bushfires and improve emergency response times.

A few old slabs of concrete buried deep in pine forests are all that remain of south-east South Australia's prisoner of war camps. But their history is being uncovered by new research that shines a light on the stories of the men interned in the region.

Forestry is south-east South Australia's largest industry, but advocates say it needs greater mobile connectivity to grow further.

Dane Swan, Shane Mumford, Leon Davis, Jordan Murdoch and Winis Imbi will take to the field in Mount Gambier next month, in a star-studded match to help get men talking about mental health issues.

Dane Swan will play in the season-opening match for Nangwarry Football Club in April, after what has been a difficult few years for the team from South Australia's Limestone Coast.

The Electoral Commissioner warns voters in many regional parts of the country may not have a polling centre in their town on election day because of a worker shortage. 

The team is looking to turn its fortunes around three years after the town's historic clubrooms were razed by fire.

Construction bodies are welcoming federal commitments to plant more trees, but the forestry industry is waiting to see how the state government responds.

Limestone Coast Police are asking the public to be "vigilant" and report any suspicious behaviour following a series of fires in the region.

Fresh COVID-19 restrictions are now in effect for parts of South Australia's south-east, as authorities investigate the movements of a Mount Gambier woman who has tested positive for coronavirus.

With supply chains in jeopardy — thanks to an ongoing pandemic and the fallout from Australia's precarious trade relations with China — a push to see more local manufacturing is resonating, especially in job-starved regions.

Roger Davis has walked through the same gate at the same sawmill every work day for half a century. He's survived fires, redundancies and a technological revolution. Now he's ready to play golf.

After a four-month delay, testing of the Nangwarry-1 gas well is finally set to get underway.

The return of checkpoints along the Victorian and South Australian border due to coronavirus cases in Queensland and New South Wales leaves residents in a "panic", the creator of an online community group says.

Imagine pubs without carbonara, weddings without bocce and cafes without good coffee. Thank Italians and their culture, 75 years after the first post-war migrants began arriving.

A South Australian timber processor says exports to China put jobs and industry at risk amid a federal inquiry into timber supply chain.

Schools in two small South Australian towns announce the decisions for their future services.

After a five-week investigation, police confirm the blaze — the latest of a dozen in the small town in recent years — is not considered as suspicious.

A young family loses their house in the latest in a series of fires in the south-east town of Nangwarry, with police treating the blaze as suspicious.

With his red beard and worn Crocs, part-time truckie Sascha Hanel is a sight to behold striding down the road, bucket in hand, to pick fruit off a neighbour's tree — but it his way of fitting in.

When a rural town loses jobs or services, it can be hard to keep people. The neighbouring towns of Nangwarry and Tarpeena in South Australia's south-east have two very different stories to tell.