Becc Chave

Water birthing is in place at some public and private hospitals in Australia, but women on SA's Limestone Coast want more people to have access to the practice.

As regional jetties around South Australia crumble into the ocean, councils are struggling to gather the funds to secure the future of the popular community assets. 

A national frog research team will look into the death of more than 200 frogs at Bool Lagoon alongside a number of other unexplained events. 

The feature in smart devices will play an increasingly important role in alerting emergency services to accidents and other incidents, a technology commentator says.

Nancy Wake famously rode about 500 kilometres in 72 hours, bluffing her way through Gestapo checkpoints to transmit a message. These riders will take a more leisurely approach to honour the war hero.

With 2030 emissions reductions targets looming, a potential Adelaide-Melbourne hydrogen freight route could present a greener option.

The Select Committee on Hunting Native Birds recommends stricter regulations for hunters and harsher penalties for those who break laws aimed at preventing animal cruelty but no ban on duck hunting.

A multi-national energy company has announced plans for a renewable energy battery park near Mount Gambier which it says will reduce electricity price volatility. 

With retail prices soaring past $40/kg for lamb cutlets in recent years even Sam Kekovich would have a hard time feeding lamb to his family, but these farmers are donating lamb to those in need despite battling their own financial heartache.

More Surf Life Saving volunteers will be trained up to operate shark-spotting drones over patrol popular beaches this summer, to help protect swimmers after recent attacks.

A South Australian recycling business says it has a world-first solution to transform the waste from powder coating production into plastic used in construction.

Hidden in watery chambers around South Australia's Limestone Coast are fossils telling the story of a prehistoric Australian world, which researchers are determined to find.

A museum collection assessor was expecting teapots and farming equipment in a small coastal museum when she made a find that sent her back 100,000 years.

At regional airports, everything from bees and birds to the weather can damage recreational planes. But a simple contact card set to go national could get pilots back in the air sooner.

Southend, on South Australia's Limestone Coast, relies on tourism money that could dwindle as coastal erosion creeps in.

Sheep farmer Tony Beck and his wife Kathy, a Luritja woman, say they are "extremely disappointed" that signs they put up in favour of constitutional change were taken from their property.

When farmer Pao Ling Tsai set a trap to catch the predator that had been killing his chooks, he expected to catch a feral cat or fox. Instead, he caught a species that was thought extinct in South Australia more than 130 years ago. 

A popular Mount Gambier exercise precinct remains closed 20 months after heritage-listed trees were damaged by a bushfire, but the council says it is waiting on a development application to fell the pines.

Luke Thomson was known as a confident and outgoing footy coach, so his mates were surprised when he was diagnosed with anxiety and depression.

South Australia's second largest city will consider further changes to its Australia Day programming after voting to move its annual citizenship ceremony to January 24.

Two dogs have died from snakebites in Mt Gambier, along with another across the border in Victoria, as warm weather brings them out of brumation, prompting warnings about what to do if you or your pet are bitten.

Authorities say an act of "stupidity and carelessness" is behind the dumping of a stolen car in a sinkhole south-east of Mount Gambier.

A cave dive that is one of the most difficult to access in South Australia's south east has been closed for years but there are hopes that could change.

The return of a Mount Gambier motor festival that was cancelled five years ago due to smoke and noise pollution is being floated as a way to reduce dangerous driving in country SA.

Skyrocketing construction costs and interest rates have forced the proponents to abandon the development at Bordertown in SA's south-east.