Producers describe plans for a new abattoir near Port Pirie as a "complete game changer" for pastoralists, saving them thousands in freight costs.

A Victorian man arrested and extradited from interstate over the cold case murder of grandmother Beverley Hanley has arrived back in Adelaide, where he is expected to be charged with murder.

A "fireball" believed to have been a meteor lights up the skies overnight, with reports of sightings coming in from South Australia and Victoria. One expert says the earth has been bombarded by twice as many small asteroids than usual over the last couple of years.

This South Australia rock lobster fisherman can paint surfboards, skate parks and street corners but don't ask Jeremy Ievins to paint a canvas.

The SANFL bans Casey McElroy from playing in the first six games of next year's Limestone Coast Women's Football League season after she took to the field for a men's reserves team.

A six-week suspension handed down to South Australian footballer Casey McElroy is proving deeply divisive, with a female sporting great, a former test cricketer and the state's Minister for Sport criticising it as excessive.

A country women's footballer says she is "shattered" at the penalty handed to her by the SANFL for playing in a men's team, ahead of a tribunal hearing in Adelaide next week.

A camera operator who worked at a greyhound racetrack in Adelaide's north is claiming a partial victory amid an ongoing underpayment dispute with Greyhound Racing SA.

The head of Angel Flight calls for a Senate review into an ATSB report that found the charity is seven times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash, but the authority says its calculations were correct.

Locals call it mighty, but is there something in the stories that the Clarence River runs backwards?

While dishes at Parkes and Honeysuckle Creek take the credit for beaming the vision of the first steps on the Moon to the world, staff known as 'Creekers' at Cooby Creek in Queensland say it was their work that made the whole project possible.

Lynelle Urquhart's home on a property west of Moonie in outback Queensland is normally quiet. But she has been having trouble sleeping lately, thanks to late-night activity under the floorboards.

Jacinta Foulds's husband shares his grief just hours after the 35-year-old's death to warn others how suddenly influenza A can kill, saying: "I've lost my soul mate and the mother of my children. If you're sick, go to the doctor".

Outback journalist Jaimee-lee Prow is on the spot in the southern Queensland town of Muckadilla as fire guts the local pub.

The man Naponi married tried to kill her more than once. Even after he was finally taken to a psychiatric hospital, Naponi faced another battle: convincing her community to believe her story.

Car and house washing are off limits in Queensland's Southern Downs as residents are urged to use no more than 100 litres a day.

Beth McEwan's world was shattered when her husband Grant took his own life last year. She says he fell through the cracks of the mental health system in their regional city and is calling for services to bridge the gap between hospital and home.

In a small town in country Australia an elderly man is praying he won't live to 91, like his father. He doesn't have the money, and it feels like debt is closing in on him.

The 36-year-old's family were preparing to embark on a new chapter in their lives, moving closer to friends and community. Now they're preparing the husband and father's funeral.

More than 10,000 people have travelled to the Birdsville Big Bash, thought to be the most remote music festival in the world.

Pip the dog was found wandering alone on the Birdsville Track, but a series of lucky breaks have led her to be reunited with her owner more than 220km away.

Researchers are puzzled by the discovery of a nest of loggerhead turtle eggs in Queensland. The find seems to indicate that the creatures have been unseasonably frisky, which should be impossible.

Tourism operators throughout Australia are being told to focus on relationships rather than destinations, or risk repeating the mass-tourism mistakes of Barcelona and Venice.

An unwanted steam locomotive that was left to rust has become a symbol of pride for a Queensland town, thanks to years of painstaking restoration work.

A 25-year-old man lures two boys to a secluded location and offers to pay them $5 for oral sex, just months after he was given bail for possessing graphic and violent child porn material, a court hears.

After the death of an e-cigarette user and the hospitalisation of many US teens, Australian health experts fear a "vaping culture" is developing among teenagers.

A delicate rescue operation frees a baby humpback from shark nets off Noosa on the Sunshine Coast with the whale's mother staying close to her calf during the ordeal.