Adelaide, Australia News

CORKAGE prices are steadily climbing in South Australian restaurants, with the average price at $18 - and one charging $50. Customers considering whether to BYO are being advised to check charges in advance to avoid being left with a sour taste in the mouth.

Share + Comments Jan 2, 2010 7:00 am US/Central ADELAIDE, Australia 1 of 1 Remains of the first airplane ever taken to Antarctica, in 1912, have been found by Australian researchers, the team announced Saturday.

ADELAIDENOW readers have responded in force to news that Kelly Nestor has been dumped by Channel Nine.

South Australian police are asking New Year's Eve revellers to take extra care with sparklers and other risky party fun as the state swelters in tinderbox conditions.

Water-bombing aircrafts are fighting the fire at Blewitt Springs. Map: Gawler 5118 Fire crews appear to have gained the upper hand on a bushfire in scrub near Blewitt Springs, south of Adelaide.

Joerg Berger was an 11-year-old in Leipzig, Germany, when the adventure film Storm Boy put the idea of living in the Australian Outback into his head.

In this undated handout picture supplied by Queensland Tourism, Ben Southall is seen on Daydream Island in Queensland, Australia.

A teenager found slumped in the driveway of a burning house was reportedly tied up before his dramatic rescue by neighbours.

IT IS a vision of climate change we never expected. A changing coastline that cuts into the inland of South Australia and brings to life the legend of a giant inland sea.

AN "extremely dangerous" fire has destroyed homes on the outskirts of Port Lincoln in South Australia, while another blaze is burning out of control in the southeast.

A SOUTH Australian policeman has been arrested for drink-driving after allegedly blowing three times over the legal limit.

Wildfires that razed more than a dozen homes and caused electricity blackouts to thousands of families in an Australian Outback city were under control Thursday, fire officials said.

Catastrophic fire danger ratings have been issued for eight South Australian districts on Wednesday, with temperatures expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius and strong winds forecast around much of the state.

Three youths who joined in an eight-hour crime rampage across Adelaide two years ago have been sentenced as adults by the District Court.

A wildfire has hit an Australian Outback town, razing several buildings but causing no injuries.

Eight districts in SA will be on alert tomorrow under a catastrophic fire danger rating.

ADELAIDE, Australia, DEC. 20, 2009 .- At a time when heroes are hard to come by, Blessed Mary MacKillop -- who is soon to become Australia's first saint -- is a "true inspiration," says the president of the country's episcopal conference.

IT'S one of Adelaide's longest bus routes and one of its busiest, but the J1 has also earned the title of the city's most unreliable.

THE Vatican is preparing to recognise the second miracle of Mary MacKillop, leaving the way open for the canonisation of Australia's first saint in the new year.

SOUTH Australian Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond has been zapped with a Taser stun gun, fulfilling her promise to experience the impact of the new policing tool.