Once known as the "city of churches", Adelaide has now well and truly relaxed.

Brazilian backpacker tells court man sliced off her bikini and tried to rape her.

A woman who murdered and dismembered her neighbour made up elaborate lies to police to explain her disappearance.

A Belgian tourist, allegedly abducted east of Adelaide, managed to get a desperate message to her family who alerted police, leading to her rescue and an arrest.

A widowed pensioner who put a heartfelt plea for a fishing buddy onto an advertising site not only landed a fishing mate but also a trip of a lifetime.

Twenty-one seconds is all it took for Wendy Atkinson's 2-year-old to scale their regulation-standard pool fence.

Veteran Aussie Brad Hodges has joined the chorus of disapproval calling Brendon McCullum's ban "a mockery".

Social media users are lashing out at Jetstar Australia after a family was kicked off a flight from Bali to Adelaide - but the airline is standing by its decision.

A tourist has told how she almost got in the car during an outback encounter with a man now charged with murder.

More than 6000 sign up to become first-time blood donors

Jasmine White's body was discovered in South Australia in a crushed car with catastrophic injuries but now there are claims she was dead before the crash.

Millionaire bar owner and convicted paedophile Anthony Munro is a person of interest in the 50-year-old mystery of the missing Beaumont children.

A freak accident at an airport in Australia has killed a pilot and left two light aircraft damaged.

North of Adelaide, the Stuart Highway undulates through a bucolic landscape of cereal fields, sheep farms and vineyards.

Native-born Australians ignore elegant, artistic Adelaide - and Mark Chipperfield is glad.

The Australian Football League is reeling and a premiership match has been cancelled after the killing of Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh, allegedly by his 26-year-old son, Cy.

South Australia's picturesque state capital offers plenty to see and do for travellers on a budget, writes Shandelle Battersby.

SkyCity Entertainment Group has resolved car parking issues at its big Adelaide casino, restaurant and bar redevelopment.

A man accused of plunging a 'Lord of the Rings' replica sword into his girlfriend’s head has been found not guilty.

Penfolds' founder knew nothing about winemaking when he came to Australia in the 1840s, but his spirit lives on, writes Shandelle Battersby.

A man used a Lord of the Rings replica sword to stab his sleeping girlfriend through the skull, an Adelaide jury has been told.

Aussie rap crew Hilltop Hoods are so big at home they make newspaper headlines just by going out for lunch.

SkyCity Entertainment Group has begun its A$350m ($370m) Adelaide redevelopment, reshaping and refurbishing areas in the historic railway station it leases.

Residents in South Australia are enduring temperatures of more than 40 degrees this week. The Conversation explains what's behind the extreme heat.

Four weeks of over-the-top partying – that's Mad March in Adelaide, writes Henry Porter.

If you haven’t been to the capital of South Australia, you might be surprised by how cute it actually is.

CheeseFest - Australia's biggest cheese festival - hits Adelaide on October 26 and 27 at the picturesque Rymill Park.

Australia's festival state throws a giant bash in praise of verbal variety, as Jon Bridges discovers.

There's no better place to start your Australian wine-tasting journey than the McLaren Vale area, where Michael Van de Elzen finds long-established wineries and some wonderful olives and cheeses.

For many years, Australia's McGuigan Wines have been on New Zealand shelves as entry-level and popular premium wines.