Port Adelaide leads the way with Australian-first project and other top stories

Port Adelaide leads the way with Australian-first project

And as the nation prepares to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli landings where more than 8,000 Australian soldiers died, the Port Adelaide Football Club has become the ambassador of a unique initiative designed to ensure the fallen are never forgotten. >> view original

Gallipoli 2015: Digger's Bible helps reunite Adelaide family after museum search

The Bible museum at Saint Arnuad in country Victoria bought a copy of a wartime Bible from an online site and worked out it was posted from Egypt, not long before the Gallipoli landing in Turkey, by digger Frank Cathro to a family member in Adelaide. >> view original

Penny toss will reflect Port Adelaide's proud history

And to add the symbolism of the centenary of the Gallipoli landing, the 1915 penny will be tossed by the grandsons of World War I veteran and Port Adelaide wingman Tom McDonald who returned from the battlelines France with the Distinguished Conduct ... >> view original

Gallipoli 2015: Adelaide teenager Liam Bennett and grandmother Di McDonald ...

A century after her grandfather died at Gallipoli, Adelaide woman Di McDonald and her grandson have travelled to Turkey in the hope of healing a family wound. "His widow - my grandmother - never spoke about the war," the Gawler woman said. >> view original

Port Adelaide needs to find more avenues to goal to keep pace with AFL's ...

And it's not going to get any easier for the 13th-placed Power with the Hawks and cross-town rival Adelaide and the Showdown on the horizon. The Hawks' miserly defence has given up just 196 points (ranked 3rd) in the first three rounds of the season. >> view original

Port Adelaide Football Club to start honour roll of servicemen-footballers in ...

Unlike the postal service and the railways, which recognised their colleagues who went to war with mahogany or marble honour boards at the GPO and Adelaide Railway Station, the records of SA league footballers who served their country are incomplete. >> view original

New five-star hotel confirmed for Adelaide

adelaide | Adelaide will host its first new five-star hotel in decades, the State Government confirmed today. Construction of a 32-storey Sofitel-branded hotel on Currie Street – the tallest mixed use development in the state – will begin in 2017. The ... >> view original

Governor's residence in Adelaide to shrink for Anzac centenary walk

An Anzac centenary memorial walk is to be built along the eastern boundary of Government House in Adelaide at a cost of $10 million. The South Australian Government said it would push the boundary of the Governor's residence back from the road by 10 ... >> view original

Opposition Analysis: Adelaide Crows

Adelaide come into the round four match undefeated under new coach Phil Walsh, with three wins from their first three rounds against North Melbourne, Collingwood and Melbourne. Their round two win against Collingwood came at Etihad Stadium, proving ... >> view original

Rocket launcher found at Adelaide house

A ROCKET launcher is among weapons and drugs seized from a home in Adelaide's northeast. GUNS, ammunition, a silencer and knives as well as methamphetamine and cannabis were also found in the home at Holden Hill, police say. A 33-year-old man ... >> view original