The SA Government has revealed plans to mothball 60 public hospital beds and offer further redundancies in the health system, despite record levels of ambulance ramping outside emergency departments in recent months.

The family of 76-year-old Dennis Murphy have posted a confronting video of him crawling on his hands and knees to the toilet, after they say he was discharged without proper treatment from Adelaide's Flinders Medical Centre.

The family of an elderly man posts a video of him crawling on his hands and knees to the toilet and claims he was discharged from an Adelaide hospital without proper treatment.

Police are investigating a fatal crash involving a ute which hit and killed one pedestrian and injured another at McLaren Vale south of Adelaide last night.

Louise Murphy spends every day caring for her elderly mother, but says no-one is helping her care for herself. She says her carers' fatigue is compounded by the fact that respite care is expensive, and her fears about putting her mother into aged care.

An influenza outbreak among newborn babies at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital results in dozens being given antiviral medication and isolated in closed cots.

In recent years, SA has developed a reputation for blackouts and energy instability, but uptake of a home battery scheme spruiked as a potential solution remains sluggish.

South Australia's Chief Justice accuses the Attorney-General of undermining the administration of justice by failing to appoint two replacement judges to the Supreme Court.

Convicted serial killer Ivan Milat gets into a van and returns to prison after receiving cancer treatment at hospital.

When Kalgoorlie's Super Pit gold mine started 30 years ago, there was not a single female employee. Today, the workforce is 30 per cent women, nearly double the mining industry average.

Tim Griffin, the Austin Hospital nurse who blew the whistle about what he believed was medical negligence, has died.

City of Yarra Mayor Misha Coleman defends parking inspectors who slapped "official warning" tickets onto the windscreens of cars belonging to St Vincent's Hospital staff, saying free parking offered to the staff during the coronavirus pandemic does not extend to cars parked in unsafe locations such as clearways.

Colac Hospital prepares to return to business as usual after a predicted surge in coronavirus cases fails to eventuate.

Two brothers who beat up a police officer so hard they broke his ribs apologise to a court for their actions over what a judge describes as "a quantum leap in offending".

A patient bringing a loaded gun into the Royal Adelaide Hospital and nurses being threatened with knives are just some of the concerning incidents plaguing staff at South Australian hospitals, the union for nurses says.

An 80-year-old woman dies in hospital after succumbing to injuries she suffered when falling out of her vehicle in the car park of a hotel on Thursday morning.

In the rocky ranges of central Australia, a group of rangers are fending-off feral cats and foxes to save an increasing population of endangered wallabies.

The death of a frail and immobile prisoner at an Adelaide hospital in 2015 was not because he was shackled to his bed for three weeks, but due to natural causes, SA's deputy coroner finds.

A toddler has died in an Adelaide hospital after suffering horrific burns in a house fire in Port Augusta in South Australia's Mid-North last week.

Hospital buildings where flammable cladding posed a major fire threat to the public in Sydney and across the state are identified in NSW Health safety documents, with Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital the only one where potentially combustible panels still need to be removed.

The United Wambo coal mine in the NSW Hunter Valley gets the go-ahead, but on the condition that its coal can only be exported to countries that have ratified the Paris climate agreement.

Wildlife carers say they no longer have to euthanase kangaroos at a New South Wales hospital, after access was cut to thousands of tourists who were flocking to feed them.

More than 20 Pixie O'Harris artworks are being restored for an exhibition after the final paintings, which had been missing since the 1950s, mysteriously turn up without note or explanation.

Ross Miller has no intention of putting the rod into the rack. Instead, he is building another prawn trawler as a legacy to his son.

Police recapture prisoner Matthew Furner, who escaped from custody at Port Macquarie Base Hospital on the NSW Mid North Coast and fled into nearby bushland.

Northern pastoralists are upbeat after the Fitzroy Crossing Bull Sale recorded strong results, despite a year of extreme weather.

Emily Slattery, a doctor herself, describes the recent birth of her son George as "boringly normal", but in fact it was far from ordinary. By using an independent midwife instead of an obstetrician, she has become the first woman in WA to take advantage of a new option in maternity care.

As it makes what could be a last-ditch effort to ensure its future, collapsed wave energy hopeful Carnegie Clean Energy is still not disclosing the performance of its most valuable asset, its CETOwave technology.

The "extinction pit" is the name used by scientists for a place no animal wants to go, and just five years ago the numbat Western Australia's animal emblem found itself on the edge thanks to the rise of a new predator.

Fyfe's tiny home town of 500 people has produced more than its fair share of AFL and AFLW stars, with nine local players making it to the top in recent years.

A sharp rise in water use has prompted warnings from a former WA state water minister that the Government may need to bring forward construction of a desalination plant, putting significant upward pressure on household water bills.

The Peck family want the Tasmanian Government to overhaul the Mental Health Act so clinicians can consider a patient's history and risk of self-harm when considering involuntary treatment orders.

Until 2012, Maria Island's animal inhabitants were living without any major predators. But when devils were introduced they had to adapt or die.

With the September deadline for practical completion of the Royal Hobart Hospital's new K-block redevelopment expired, the Government "needs to be upfront with Tasmanians" as to when it will be operational, Labor says.

A man who died days after attempting to take his life in a hospital toilet was unable to get immediate care despite experiencing thought of self harm, a Hobart inquest hears.

The head of the Royal Hobart Hospital's emergency department tells an inquest of a large increase in the number of mental health patients trying to access care, and of more suicide attempts at the facility.