Stephanie Richards

Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows food prices cumulatively increased by 16.4 per cent in Adelaide between 2021 and 2023. Low-cost grocery store The Food Centre says demand has also spiked with hundreds of families visiting the store each week.

Three months after Australians overwhelmingly voted against enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the constitution, South Australian First Nations people are deciding whether to nominate as candidates for the country's first state-based Voice.

South Australia's Chief Psychiatrist restricts James Nash House from admitting some patients to its Birdwood Ward over concerns that the facility "looks and feels like a prison".

The South Australian government has made progress ticking off hundreds of commitments made to taxpayers before the March 2022 election. But it still has a long way to go on key areas like health, integrity and cost-of-living, writes Stephanie Richards and Rory McClaren.

A South Australian woman suffering a potentially fatal heart condition lodges a complaint with Adelaide’s biggest public hospital after it postponed her open-heart surgery amid mounting pressure on the state’s health system.

A former detainee who allegedly indecently assaulted an Adelaide motel guest three weeks after he was released from Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre, has been further remanded in custody until February, after he appeared agitated in court.  

The 75-year-old Queensland man charged over Sunday's outback rail crash at a crossing on the Barrier Highway that killed two freight train drivers is granted bail, on the condition that he report daily to police.

A former Yorke Peninsula teacher who groomed multiple students has been sentenced to 14 years in prison, with a judge describing his apology as an "insincere insult" to his young victims.

Worsening ambulance ramping and crowded emergency departments show just how sick South Australia's health system is, despite the government "throwing the kitchen sink" at hospitals, writes Stephanie Richards.

The SA Salaried Medical Officers Association says there were 115 patients in the Royal Adelaide Hospital's emergency department on Tuesday afternoon, with dozens more left "shoulder to shoulder" in the waiting room.

The Australian Education Union's executive recommends its members accept the revised enterprise agreement, which would deliver pay rises over four years, to avoid a third strike in as many months.

The 16-year-old South Australian boy has been sentenced as an adult to three years in prison, but is now eligible to apply for parole after his time served in youth detention was taken into account.

Almost two dozen South Australian teenagers in state care who are at risk of sexual exploitation and abuse have been unable to get the help they need from a specialist public health service that has reached capacity, according to the state's child protection watchdog

Advocates call for stronger action to address gender-based violence in South Australia following the deaths of four women in unrelated cases over the past week.

Michael Purse was picked up from the Adelaide Casino before being stabbed, punched and kicked at a Kilburn unit in 2019. His body has never been found.

More than 100,000 online and telephone reports were made to SA's child abuse line last financial year, a 9 per cent increase from the year prior. 

According to the South Australian government, women aged 55 and over are one of the fastest growing populations who experience homelessness.

The number of people caught up in a cochlear implant bungle at the Women's and Children's Hospital has risen to 263, SA Health has revealed.

South Australia's Training Centre Visitor Shona Reid says since she was appointed last year, her office has taken a "deep dive" into records to uncover the extent of self-harming at the state's youth justice centre. Warning: This story contains references to self-harm.

More than 120 families whose children were caught up in the cochlear implant bungle at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital have sought payments from the South Australian government.

A report by a visitor tasked with monitoring children's health and safety has called for an end to the scheme, labelling it "unconscionable" and "indifferent to human rights".

The opposition said the merger was "too big to fail", but also flagged their own commitments should they form government after the 2026 state election.

The South Australian doctors' union says women seeking pregnancy terminations will continue to be consulted in a mouldy and dilapidated building for up to three months.

For the second time in under two years, thousand of people have been caught in a cyber-attack where information tied to an SA government agency — but held by a third party — has been hacked. Here's what we know about the latest breach.

The South Australian government confirms data belonging to a significant number of people has potentially been accessed through a cyber security breach.