

Adelaide City councillor Keiran Snape has been elected Deputy Lord Mayor for 2024, after winning eight votes including that of Liberal-aligned Henry Davis.
The Adelaide CBD received more rain overnight than its average for the whole of November in a thunderstorm that left more than 10,000 properties without power and roads inundated. See the pictures
South Australia’s ageing population is set to drive significant expansion in the state’s healthcare workforce, according to a new report, prompting a warning about labour supply for the defence sector.
Developers have launched a second bid to rezone a parcel of commercial land in Adelaide’s western suburbs for housing, after an earlier proposal to allow six-storey apartments was rejected due to resident concerns.
South Australia’s population could reach two million people by the end of the decade – years earlier than previously predicted.
The State Ombudsman has ordered the Transport Department to release documents about the scrapped Hahndorf Bypass project after it ignored a freedom of information request and failed to act for months on numerous inquiries from his office.
The state government will retain 27 compulsorily acquired landholdings made for projects that the federal government is no longer funding, arguing the acquisitions are still necessary for “future infrastructure opportunities”.
The number of development applications lodged in South Australia declined nearly 10 per cent last financial year, with cost of living pressures, rising building costs and the end of the HomeBuilder grant scheme blamed for a drop in housing investment.