The Black Friday bushfires which swept across southeastern Australia in January 1939 have been remembered as a deadly and traumatic event.

A man has gone missing at a popular beach in the Yorke Peninsula, with the police helicopter unable to locate him overnight.

Those without verandas or gardens slept in Adelaide’s public squares and beaches. Irene Ingram lived in the closely-packed row cottages of Adelaide’s East End in the 1930s with her husband and ...

Trained life savers Sean Stanton and Nate Tredrea – the son of former Port Adelaide AFL player Warren Tredrea – were nearby the beach with a group of friends when they heard “a big bang”.

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Two people are in hospital after a car drove over a cliff at a beach in Adelaide overnight. At about 11pm, emergency services were called to Gulf Parade in Maslin Beach, where they found a white ...

The carcass of a dwarf sperm whale is found washed up on an Adelaide beach, with a local tour boat operator who says he saw the "very rare" animal when it was alive and several kilometres offshore ...

Police allege a Holden sedan was driven over a 50m cliff at Maslin Beach in Adelaide’s south on Sunday. Image/Russell Millard Photography A 30-year old female driver from Northgate and a 30-year ...

Cabanas and swags were sent flying at a busy Adelaide beach on Saturday afternoon as a willy willy swept in, sending those in its path running for cover. The tall tornado-like freak weather event ...

A freshly-caught stingray found on the sand in Adelaide’s west has enraged beachgoers after it was illegally fished ... Nearing 2m in diameter, the fully grown short-tail — or smooth — stingray was ...

Beachgoers have been forced to flee the path of a willy willy as it tore down a South Australian beach, picking up everything ...