Last Top Stories: Light plane makes emergency landing in Adelaide's Victoria Park

Light plane makes emergency landing in Adelaide's Victoria Park

A light plane, reported to be a Cessna with five men on board, has made an emergency landing in Adelaide's Victoria Park. Emergency crews are at the scene in the area also known as Park 16 in the south-eastern parklands near Adelaide's CBD. The park ... >> view original

Adelaide Lightning women's basketball team prepares for tough season after ...

The Adelaide Lightning's head coach is very much aware of the problems her team faces as it prepares for the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) season. While others would try to talk in cliches about what could be possible, York prefers to be ... >> view original

Inked up protest in Adelaide

A vocal, inked-up group of protesters have taken to the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide, slamming proposed laws to ban bikies from owning tattoo parlours. The protesters, including tattoo artists, held signs reading "art is not a crime" as they ... >> view original

What's on in Adelaide

WEEKEND PICKS | It's all happening in Adelaide this long weekend, including the Semaphore Music Festival, the opening of the stage show Dirty Dancing, and a host of Asian-themed art, entertainment and food with the OzAsia Festival, INDOofest, AsiaFest ... >> view original

Four people hurt in explosion at Dudley Park house, Adelaide emergency ...

Four people have been hurt in an explosion at a house at Dudley Park in Adelaide's inner northern suburbs. Emergency crews rushed to the unit in Young Street about 2:20pm. The Metropolitan Fire Service said a small fire was out when crews arrived and ... >> view original

Australia's south east will experience a four-day warm spell

Forecasters are predicting temperatures of 30 plus degrees for Sydney and Adelaide and high 20s and early 30s for Melbourne. Hobart is also expected to sweat with the mercury expected to rise to 29 degrees on Saturday. And while we are all celebrating ... >> view original

Adelaide's 68-year-old extreme athlete tackles the Australian Masters Games in ...

Kayaking through four-metre ocean swells is not where you would expect a 68-year-old grandfather to be, but for Rodney Biggs it is all part of life after a cancer diagnosis. Mr Biggs was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. After a bout of ... >> view original

Retail sales rise 0.4% in August, meeting expectations

Retail sales increased 0.4 per cent in August, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, bang in line with analysts' expectations. Sales increased to a seasonally adjusted figure of $24.4 billion for August, up from $24 ... >> view original

New home sales rise, units fall

The tapering of Australia's apartment building boom has been hinted at again in fresh data, which shows that after months of lagging behind, sales of detached houses drove new home sales higher in August. The Housing Industry Association's August ... >> view original

billionaire's wealth plunges 84%

The Chinese billionaire using his personal fortune to help fund a $US50 billion ($71 billion) Nicaraguan challenger to the Panama Canal has crashed into the bitter reality of equity markets in the world's second-largest economy. Telecommunications ... >> view original