Adelaide’s hotel occupancy rates have soared back to pre-Covid levels as Australians holiday close to home.

The failed French subs deal could cost taxpayers up to $5.5bn, the Department of Defence has conceded. 

Seven-figure properties in South Australia are more commonplace than ever, new data shows

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School and community sports officials are fighting to keep competitions going across the state as Covid “decimates” teams, forcing last-minute forfeits or the rescheduling of games. 

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Close contacts in hospitality should be allowed to continue working to cope with an expected surge in Covid cases at Easter

Four Filipino men have been charged over the biggest cocaine bust in the state’s history

Skyrocketing fertiliser prices will vastly increase the cost of planting a crop this year

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Stakes are even higher for Friday night’s history-making Showdown between the Crows and Port Adelaide

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It takes more than an earthquake to rattle the nerves of Mount Barker residents, who on Tuesday were rocked by their fifth tremor in a month.

COVID is being blamed for neighbours getting on each other’s nerves and deforestation is high on the list of things they are fighting about.

South Australia is set to rake in a GST windfall worth $900m 

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Port Adelaide has a big problem. Not in defence, but in attack. It is struggling to score - says former player Tom Rockcliff.

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Fuel prices will be cut and money pumped into the pockets of low-and-middle income earners to ease escalating pressure on households 

More Australians will be given a shot at home ownership 

Pensioners will get cheaper medicines, a high-cost breast cancer treatment has been made affordable in a suite of budget health measures.

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A star-studded line up will be part of Shane Warne’s “unprecedented” send off.

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A cut to fuel excise will provide hip-pocket relief at the petrol pump within days

Senior Labor figure Penny Wong has declared she won’t “return anger with anger” in a speech paying tribute to her late colleague Kimberley Kitching

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party is poised to claim one of two remaining seats in the Legislative Council but nobody seems to know the winning candidate.

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Buddy Franklin has his ball back.

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A long-awaited fix for one of Adelaide’s worst traffic bottlenecks will be promised in Tuesday night’s federal budget as the Coalition unveils plans to spend more than $450m on new road projects in South Australia. 

For the first time since 2019, crowds will return to the city’s streets to honour military veterans in next month’s Anzac Day march. 

Kodi Smit-McPhee – the first South Australian to be nominated for an acting Oscar in more than 80 years – is resting up for this morning’s Academy Awards ceremony. 

Two professional fishermen whose incomes have been slashed under the controversial reform of the state’s fishing industry have won a crucial legal fight. 

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South Australia’s paediatric Covid vaccination program is under review and a new campaign is being drafted to increase the overall jab rates of children. 

Health officials are warning the state’s hospitals will be overwhelmed with Covid-19  patients who failed to take the recommended antivirals within five days of infection... 

Bullying and nepotism are among the claims levelled against the principal of high-fee St Andrew’s School by members of its community. 

Doctors are being offered lucrative incentives totalling up to $70,000 to move to rural South Australia, but there are still dozens of vacancies. 

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Close contact quarantine rules that have sparked widespread chaos have been slashed while mandatory masks will all but go within weeks, under sweeping changes to Covid-19 laws.

Self-funded retirees will get another year’s extension to rules introduced at the start of the pandemic which cut the amount of money they have to take out of super as pensions.

The deadly mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis virus has been detected  across the state, prompting a warning from SA Health.

And in sport, the Russell Ebert statue at Adelaide Oval will have special visitors before the SA football legend’s tribute game on Saturday night.

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The new Labor ministry is set to cost the government an extra $630,000 per year with 15 members sworn in to serve on cabinet.

South Australia has a new billionaire, with shopping centre magnate Nick DiMauro joining the ranks of the country’s wealthy elite this year.

Adelaide’s submarine shipyard will more than triple in size to become one of the most sophisticated construction bases in the world, as the federal government plans a huge expansion of the Osborne site ahead of the nuclear-powered submarine build.

And in sport, Ash Barty has closed the door on tennis but admits “it’s not padlocked’’ as her sporting future remains shrouded in mystery.

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Ash Barty is set to follow her inspiration Evonne Goolagong Cawley and nourish her connections with Indigenous Australia following the retirement announcement that shocked the sporting world.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a 12-year-old boy who allegedly killed one person and seriously injured a second in a car rollover.

The Federal Government will spend $875 million upgrading military bases around Australia next year, as it heads to an election in May with defence and national security as a core component of its campaign.

And in sport, Baseball SA has called for cultural change after a tirade of negative social media comments led to a staff member leaving the sporting body. 

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