The Latest Breaking News from Riverland

South-east South Australia, which covers the Limestone Coast, Riverland and Murray Bridge, remains one of the strongest-performing property markets in the country.

When they're not working around the clock to protect Riverland levees, these earthmovers are fiercely competing for business. However, while saving the community, they're having a ball and residents are sharing the love right back.

The town of Morgan remains on high alert as peak flood waters make their way down the River Murray, in South Australia's Riverland.

A Riverland couple hope their 119-year-old home can be saved from rising floodwaters that have turned their property into an island.

Water levels at Renmark have reached their peak, the SA State Emergency Service says, as they warn a Murraylands shack community to "shelter in place" because key roads are closed.

SA Health said the man, in his 80s, was likely to have "recently acquired" the infection and is now recovering at home.

A woman in South Australia's flood zone had her home insurance cancelled just weeks before the peak was due to hit, only to have it reinstated after the ABC contacted her insurance company.

The Schultz family are among many Riverland residents and businesses building their own levees to protect themselves from the rising River Murray.

The Riverland faces its worst flooding in half a century as communities await the slow-moving disaster

A green sludge has emerged at Lake Bonney after a levee was built to cut it from the swollen River Murray, as health authorities warn against swimming in the popular Riverland lake.

South Australia's State Emergency Service (SES) says engineers are working to repair more than 50 levee banks along the River Murray ahead of the flood peak which is now expected from Boxing Day in Renmark.