The Latest Breaking News from SA

Disposable nappies are convenient but come at a huge cost to the environment. Efforts are underway near Adelaide to recycle some of the hundreds of millions that end up in Australian landfill every year.

WARNING: Readers may find details in this story distressing. The opening day of an inquest hears SA child protection authorities did not intervene in the 10 days before an 11-week-old boy died in "disgusting squalor" because one of its regional offices "had no capacity to deal with the notification".

Six Aboriginal leaders will be shortlisted from more than 100 nominations to have new statues built, as part of a $1 million project to honour First Nations history in SA.

If the rest of the population had reacted the same way as these selfish few, they would have been dying in the tens of thousands.

Authorities have almost completed levee work to protect the town of Renmark, the first SA community to feel the impact of floodwaters surging down the Murray.

A strong pace bowling effort has given South Australia the advantage in their Shield match in Hobart, leading Tasmania by almost 300 runs after day two.

Cyril Ramaphosa's future as South African president was in question on Thursday, a day after a panel report found preliminary evidence he may have committed serious misconduct. The president has denied any wrongdoing.

South Australia has passed laws to allow police to electronically monitor known firebugs during the bushfire season.

The latest forecasts on flooding down the Murray River in SA have indicated the first peak in water flows will now hit about two weeks later than first thought.