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15th Jan 2021 4:15 PM More than 50 Target stores are expected to be closed over the coming months, while dozens will be converted into Kmart outlets in a major retail shake-up. News of the shrinking Target estate broke last year after sales slumped by $67 million, but many of the changes are happening in 2021. Around 55 Targets will be converted around Australia into Kmart stores or KHubs, smaller neighbourhood stores that stock products across kids, home and clot...

Victorians on SA border say new COVID-19 permits dont make sense ThuThursday 14 updated MonMonday 18 Victorians living on the SA border say the new permits are difficult and disruptive. ( Share Print text only Cancel Victorians who rely on South Australian towns for work are calling on their State Government to rethink its new cross-border permit system. Key points: Victorians are angry their SA border bubble has been burst when one still exists on the NSW border They say the new permit system ...

About 20 kilometres from anywhere resembling a town in the south-east, a inconspicuous dirt road cuts through man-made forest to the most ominously-named sinkhole of them all. Despite the popularity of other surrounding cenotes, theres not a single person to be seen on the road, or at the park from which a pathway leads to a shaggy and distinctly out-of-place patch of bush. Its eerily quiet when I reach the hellmouth, which has been made accessible to visitors by an enclosed steel bridge whi...

Dozens of Target Australia stores are set to close in 2021 and dozens more are set to be converted into Kma...

The Country Fire Service says the threat posed by a huge grass fire which ripped through part of South Australia's south-east has reduced.

Threat from bushfire which hit town of Lucindale downgraded as firefighters monitor area Posted MonMonday 11 updated MonMonday 11 JanJanuary 2021 at 1:33pm Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch 1 Share Print text only Cancel The Country Fire Service (CFS) says the threat posed by a huge grass fire which ripped through part of South Australias south-east has reduced. Key points: Multiple emergency warnings were issued, and an advi...

MOUNT GAMBIER SHEEP – WEDNESDAY 6171 (-5947) NUMBERS fell sharply as agents yarded 6092 lambs and 79 sheep to total […]

Mixed messages land returning South Australian couple in quarantine for 14 days FriFriday 8 Deanne Carmody and Rob Ellis in Warwick, Queensland after leaving NSW on December 28. ( Print text only Cancel Mixed messages from authorities have landed a pair of South Australians in quarantine for two weeks after they travelled to New South Wales to be with relatives following a family tragedy. Key points: They received no exemption, despite their compassionate reasons for travel A loophole has allow...

Truck driver was listening to loud music when he fatally hit cyclist, lawyer tells court By Sarah Hancock © Provided by ABC NEWS Melbourne cyclist Daryl Adams was cycling to Adelaide for the Tour Down Under. (Supplied: ABC News) A South Australian judge has rejected claims a truck driver did not realise he had hit a cyclist because he was listening to loud music at the time the man was fatally struck. Daniel Luke Barry, 39, failed to stop when he hit 60-year-old cyclist Daryl...

SA merino farming family continues baggy green cap tradition ahead of Australia-India Test ThuThursday 17 updated ThuThursday 17 DecDecember 2020 at 2:57am The iconic baggy green cricket caps hail from farms like Washpool at Avenue Range, South East SA. ( Print text only Cancel The hot, bustling, lanolin-scented buzz of a country South Australian woolshed might seem a world away from the hallowed turf of the Adelaide Oval — but the two are sewn together in cricketing history. As the Australia...