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Police say the car was unattended when it rolled downhill through a house south of Adelaide, before exiting out the other side, off the balcony, and landing in the front yard.

Emergency services responded to reports that three people had been assaulted at a house that was then destroyed by fire in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Purchasing 19ha of grazing land was the beginning of a decade-long regeneration project which a young family is watching come to life.

A South Australian MP says he has received a dozen complaints from people in three suburbs south of Adelaide, where there has been a change to chemicals in the water supply, but SA Water says the change has improved the taste and safety of the supply.

After seven years of delays and a change of government, works finally begin to partially remove a wrecked wave generator off the coast of Carrickalinga in Adelaide's south, but the local community remains unsatisfied.

Removal of a wrecked wave energy generator stranded off a popular South Australian seaside holiday town is delayed yet again, the local ratepayers group says, six years after the project was sunk.

Holidaymakers who might have otherwise travelled overseas for Christmas are booking out beach houses along South Australia's coast in record numbers.

An out-of-control truck has slammed into a house south of Adelaide, forcing neighbours to dive for cover, destroying the home and trapping the vehicle's two occupants in the wreckage for nearly an hour.

A neighbour says he grabbed his daughter and dived for cover when he saw the out-of-control vehicle approaching his front yard, before it slammed into his car and then into the house next door.

The removal of a 3,000-tonne eyesore that has been partially submerged off South Australia's coast for six years will be delayed further after divers surveying the structure found it did not match expectations.

Mitchell Williams says it was instinct not bravery that led him to save his sister, who was knocked off her kayak and being circled by a great white shark off South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula.

A court has postponed a decision about whether notorious paedophile Vivian Frederick Deboo will serve the remainder of his jail sentence at home until new laws pass SA Parliament.

A paedophile who preyed on young boys he met through his local church will spend six years and seven months in jail after losing his bid to service his sentence on home detention.

Victims and protesters, including one dressed as the Cookie Monster, confront convicted paedophile Vivian Deboo outside an Adelaide court, demanding he go to jail for his crimes.

A wave energy generator which sank off the South Australian coast in March 2014 will be dismantled and its submerged portion converted into an artificial reef.

A 15-year-old girl fishing for squid from a kayak south of Adelaide is knocked into the water by a shark, believed to be a great white, with her father saying he saw the shark's "dark side and the white belly" as it rolled.

Federal Court proceedings are delaying the removal of a 3,000-tonne wave energy generator that sank off the coast of Carrickalinga, south of Adelaide, more than three years ago, the State Government says.

The wave generator that became stuck offshore from Carrickalinga while being towed to south-east South Australia may be recycled for parts.

The Transport Department has told Carrickalinga residents, south of Adelaide, it will help remove a wave energy generator which is off the coast.

Boaties and residents of the Fleurieu Peninsula may have noticed a new piece of infrastructure in Gulf St Vincent.

After its wave energy unit ran into trouble recently, a receiver has been appointed for the Oceanlinx company.

A $7 million wave energy unit has run into trouble in waters off the Fleurieu Peninsula, south of Adelaide. Wave energy company Oceanlinx says the unit, which is being towed by a tug boat, has suffered serious damage to the airbags supporting the 3,000-tonne structure, making it lean.

A tropical blue marlin has washed up on a beach, south of Adelaide, apparently having strayed off course.

A man has serious leg and stomach injuries after falling 15 metres while climbing a steep track at Carrickalinga, south of Adelaide.

A man who fell about 15 metres down a cliff at Carrickalinga south of Adelaide on Thursday night created a challenge for rescuers.