Tesla CEO Elon Musk beat self-imposed deadline to have the battery farm ready in 100 days.

Australian woman on trial for murder is accused of "bizarrely" licking bloodied knife.

South Australia's dynamic festival is worth a visit, writes Caroline Berdon.

Fergus Blakiston visits a landscape unchanged in millions of years.

Kemiri was born into captivity in 1994 at Taronga Zoo, Sydney before moving to Adelaide.

There are claims that accused drug smuggler Cassie Sainsbury was fleeing a sizeable debt.

Stephanie Holmes checks into a swanky suite in the heart of wine country.

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

GRAPHIC CONTENT: Derek Percy had a dark secret hidden in a storage facility.

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

A "sadistic" father who tortured, terrorised and sexually abused four children at a remote South Australian property has been jailed for up to 25 years.

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.

Air New Zealand is launching a raid into its Australian rivals' home patch targeting the long haul market across the Pacific.

Thunder storms and torrential rain are dousing the upper North Island as the tail-end of a storm makes its presence felt on this side of Tasman.

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.

A slowly disappearing railway is a thing of surprising beauty for Fergus Blakiston in South Australia's Outback.

David Leggat visited the wine regions of South Australia for a spot of glug-glugging.

A luxury homestead provides a welcome, indulgent respite from South Australia's rugged outdoors, finds David Leggat.

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

More than 30 homes are believed ruined as a major bushfire continues to burn out of control in the Adelaide Hills.

Alone on the barren, ocherous and mine-scarred landscape surrounding Coober Pedy, Fergus Blakiston feels like a man on the moon.

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

Sarah Ivey meets booty-waving emus with a thirst on, fair dinkum Aussies with a penchant for gourmet cuisine and more spectacular scenery than her trusty camera lens can handle.

Northwest of Adelaide lies this fascinating land of ancient rock formations, salt lakes, native wildlife and several national parks.

Lisa Martin finds exploring Australia's mining heritage from Sydney to Perth on the Indian Pacific is poetry in motion.

Port Lincoln is known as Australia's seafood capital. And it doesn't disappoint Sarah Ivey.

Shandelle Battersby watches Australia go by as she rides The Ghan from Top End to bottom.

We all know about Barossa and its big, bold shiraz; the famous Penfolds Grange and Melbourne’s terrific foodie scene.