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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.

A local geologist says the limestone sinkhole was probably last open more than 5,000 years ago until the Mount Gambier volcano erupted and filled it with ash.

The SA government says American funding to conduct a review of coastal lake management in the state's South East will not sway the final outcome.

A bill for a dedicated palliative care facility to be built in Mount Gambier to service South Australia's south-east has passed parliament.

Ruth Bland has lived with type 1 diabetes for about three decades, causing damage to her kidneys. Her sister, Sara McManus, decided to help.

A boat and motorcycle dealer in South Australia's south-east warns others to manage their passwords better after his email account is hacked and a customer almost hands over more than $100,000 to a scammer.

Forestry is south-east South Australia's largest industry, but advocates say it needs greater mobile connectivity to grow further.

Police say it's too early to determine the cause of the latest blaze, but SARDI's executive director says "it's deliberate".

Blue whales are beginning their migration north to breed, but skinnier than usual animals spotted off Australia's coast are leaving researchers worried about their food source.