Last Top Stories: Old 'red hen' trains back on the rails in Adelaide this weekend

Old 'red hen' trains back on the rails in Adelaide this weekend

Adelaide's old "red hen" trains will be back on the rails between the city and Port Adelaide this weekend. Bob Sampson of the National Railway Museum at Port Adelaide told 891 ABC Adelaide the museum was being inundated with phone calls this week ... >> view original

ISPT to sell $15m Adelaide property as big freeway spend steps up

The $11 billion ISPT unlisted fund, owned by more than 20 superannuation funds, might get about $15 million for an industrial property in Adelaide in a precinct that will benefit from a $985 million freeway announced by Tony Abbott on his last day as ... >> view original

Modbury, Lyell McEwin hospitals in Adelaide face changes to orthopaedic ...

Plans for a specialised elective surgery eye centre for Modbury Hospital in Adelaide have been abandoned, the South Australian Government says. Procedures such as cataract removal would have been performed there. Health Minister Jack Snelling said ... >> view original

Hamish Hartlett re-signs with Port Adelaide until at least 2021

Port Adelaide midfielder Hamish Hartlett has ensured he'll spend at least the bulk of his career at Alberton Oval after signing a five-year contract extension with the Power. The club's highest-ever draft selection, who still had one year to run on his ... >> view original

Jamie xx adds Adelaide show to Australian tour

Hot on the heels of the announcement of an additional Melbourne date to his upcoming December/January festival tour Jamie xx has confirmed another huge Australian show, this time in Adelaide. Due to be in the country for three east coast festival dates ... >> view original

Adelaide matches temperature record as bushfire burns

Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Tom Boeck said it was unusual for Adelaide to be experiencing such high temperatures in early October. “We have strong northerly wind coming from the north side of the state,” he said. Nullarbor had the hottest ... >> view original

KISS back with a vengeance for 40th anniversary

If 1970s superhero band KISS wrote the handbook on rock'n'roll theatrics, then its 40th anniversary tour not only tears out the pages but sets fire to them, blows them up, shoots them with laser beams and sends them on a skyrocket to hell and back. >> view original

Iron Chef a sharp act to follow

Hiroyuki Sakai, from cult SBS show Iron Chef, will be the star attraction of a fundraising dinner at Adelaide Casino on October 13 and 14. Event founder Johnny Yung, of the Taste of Orient group, says it will be “an experience South Australians will ... >> view original

Adelaide 36ers wait on new import Kenyon McNeaill before devising final ...

McNeaill tweaked his shoulder during the contest and did not suit for Adelaide's last Blitz game against Illawarra and has not trained since. “I didn't know until the next day,” 36ers coach Joey Wright said of McNeaill's discomfort, the playmaking ... >> view original

2015-16 A-League season preview: Adelaide United

Following a shaky start to his Adelaide United tenure, Josep Gombau produced a slick and entertaining team in South Australia, which won the FFA Cup last season but faltered when it came to finals football. With the enigmatic Catalan now departed, ... >> view original