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A man has been charged over the alleged murder of a woman in suburban Adelaide — one of four female victims who have died in suspicious circumstances in domestic settings in the past week.

As Australia experiences "bigger … hotter fires", experts say buffel grass — which is now found in every state and territory — poses a growing bushfire risk.

The male kangaroo is rescued from a 10 metre open mine shaft in the Olympic Opal Fields near Coober Pedyi before forecast 36 degree weather.

The District Council of Coober Pedy apologises for an accidental price hike weeks after raising rates by 20 per cent.

Collins says many First Nations people would be able to relate to the characters in Limbo, a film about the disappearance of a young woman from an outback town.

Coober Pedy's council has clarified that the proposed CCTV cameras for the town's CBD will not have facial recognition capabilities after a local business owner raised concerns.

An unexpected discovery when comparing the head shapes and teeth of red kangaroos inside and outside the Australian dog fence has been made by researchers, with one group growing up quicker.

Visibility fell to 100 metres and road traffic slowed to a crawl as fog blanketed large parts of outback South Australia.

William Creek tourism operator Trevor Wright told the ABC he had only seen such thick fog on a handful of occasions, which the BOM says has been caused by an unusual amount of moisture in northern SA.

Soaring land values and cultural changes are behind the dwindling number of drive-in cinemas in Australia, a historian says. But is there still time for an encore?

The creator of Mystery Road returns with an outback noir about a detective on the trail of a cold case — a film he says is a "Trojan horse" for an urgent issue: the alarmingly high rate at which Indigenous women are murdered.

The film stars Simon Baker and opens in Australian cinemas this week.

An overnight robbery at an opal store in Coober Pedy has seen the theft of a unique 23-carat tear drop opal along with various other notable opals.

A new team of administrators for Coober Pedy Council pledges to gain community support for financial sustainability measures amid soaring costs, as plans to sell the town's water network get underway.

Despite soaring profits for Australia's big four banks, that number in the billions, almost one-in-three of their branches have closed in the past five years and now a parliamentary committee is examining the impact of those closures, especially on regional centres.

The outback town is an opal-mining mecca, with large sums of money often exchanged in cash. But Coober Pedy's only bank closed for good last week — too late to be saved by a Senate inquiry into regional bank closures.

Social services and charities fear those with air conditioners will be tempted to leave them switched off to save on power risking their health — and even their life.

The alarm was raised on Sunday when a man was reported missing after a regular welfare check at his property located at a large cattle station near Marla.

Coober Pedy residents are demanding water price parity as the council's outgoing administrator says they are overpaying by about $1.2 million to $1.4 million a year.

The grass fire spread under the fence of the impound yard at Coober Pedy Police Complex, damaging several vehicles, before the Country Fire Service was able to extinguish it.

In fewer than 20 days, South Australians with a terminal illness will be able to access voluntarily assisted dying within state borders, but advocates worry there is a lack of information about the process, and little access to it in the regions.

This remote South Australian town, which relies on large amounts of cash for its opal mining and tourism industry, is set to lose its only bank next year.

The Threatened Species Action Plan neglects almost all of central Australia, advocates say, and could spell disaster for the Lake Eyre Basin and its endangered wildlife.

The South Australian government is set to install a fly-in-fly-out model for two remote communities, against the wishes of elders and the advice of experts.

Some of Australia's most vulnerable children will not have access to in-community mental health support staff, with the South Australian government set to install a fly-in-fly-out model, against the wishes of elders and the advice of experts.