Conor Burke

Residents in a slew of New South Wales council areas will not get to vote in the upcoming September local government elections as not enough people have put their hands up to run.

When the young woman vanished, police stumbled across what they believed to be a sinister plot to take her baby boy. But despite a lengthy murder trial, what happened to her remains one of regional Australia's enduring mysteries.

A regional South Australian council has voted unanimously to retain the name of a road that has been identified as a slur against Chinese people.

A toxicologist warns it's never safe to assume a snake bite is venomless, after a South Australian man experiences an "unusual" delayed reaction to poison from a suspected brown snake bite.

A South Australian council has raised concerns that Woolworths and Coles are getting around shop trading laws by offering delivery services on Sunday when supermarkets are not allowed to open in Millicent.

The sculpture has caused a stir in a regional South Australian community, but the local council says that is the point of public art.

Australian researchers are conducting tests to find if an aquatic plant abundant on Earth will grow in space.

Visitors spotted human excrement near the Little Blue Lake sinkhole earlier this year. But a push for a toilet facility has come to nothing.

Environment authorities in regional South Australia have deployed a helicopter to catch four-wheel-drivers breaking the rules in national parks and on private properties.

Members of the Aboriginal community in South Australia's south-east are calling on the state government to reject an application to sell hundreds of Aboriginal artefacts.