MOTORISTS are three times more likely to be killed or seriously injured when involved in a casualty crash in rural South Australia compared with metropolitan Adelaide.

Prepare for Fire Season feature

THE state government has announced nearly $100 million of funding ahead of the Fire Danger Season.

Prepare for Fire Season feature

SA Country Fire Service has identified its brigades most in need of volunteer firefighters, including six on Yorke Peninsula — Snowtown, Port Wakefield, Port Clinton, Weetulta, Balgowan and Yorketown.

Prepare for Fire Season feature

EMERGENCY Management Australia has completed its annual disaster season briefings with states and territories, and has urged Australians to properly prepare for the summer disaster season.

Prepare for Fire Season feature

EVERY summer, the importance of farm firefighting units is abundantly clear.

Prepare for Fire Season feature

FARMERS from Weavers, Minlaton and Curramulka Ag Bureaus have brushed up on their fire preparedness skills.

Prepare for Fire Season feature

IF you live, work or travel in an area where bushfires can occur, you need to know where you can relocate if threatened by a fire.

INDUSTRY lobby group the Civil Contractors Federation (SA) has urged the state government to upgrade Augusta Highway, labelling the road a “death corridor”.

YORKE-Mid North Local Service Area police officers attended a truck rollover on the Augusta Highway, Port Wakefield, last Wednesday, October 14.

ATTORNEY-General Vickie Chapman has moved to modernise South Australia’s abortion laws, aiming to ensure abortions are treated as a health issue, not a criminal one.