The University of Adelaide says the departures of chancellor Kevin Scarce and vice-chancellor Peter Rathjen have nothing to do with its finances despite admitting it is facing a budget shortfall of $100 million.

Harold Martin was among the 22,000 Australian men and women made prisoners of war in 1942 when the Japanese advanced on South-East Asia, and once spent four days stranded on a raft in the South China Sea.

Erika Freingruber was stuck on the floor of her Beaudesert home, south of Brisbane, for up to five days with a broken hip before police rescue her after a tip-off from the state's newly-formed coronavirus Care Army.

The number of Australians to have recovered from COVID-19 has surpassed 6,000, Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced, leaving fewer than 800 active cases of the virus around the country.

Rose Bay man Bruce Goldberg is awarded $35,000 in damages over a defamatory Facebook post that implied he was a danger to women and a stalker, fuelling "chatter" in the affluent community.

The pub in South Australia's south-east allegedly served drinks to a number of customers in its front bar on Tuesday night.

A lucrative but illegal trade in alcohol known as sly-grogging has developed in remote towns and there are allegations it is being facilitated by rogue taxi drivers.

Will you light up the sky with a 10/10 score? Pop on your personal protective equipment (or not) and take a tour of the news this week.

After five months of evidence from more than 200 witnesses, the Claremont serial killings trial is nearing an end. Here is the state's case against Bradley Edwards for the murders of three young women in Perth.

Why are there so few antivirals? The answer boils down to biology, and specifically the fact viruses use our own cells to multiply. This makes it hard to kill viruses without killing our own cells in the process.

No new COVID-19 cases were recorded as the State Government announced a multi-million-dollar medical research fund to tackle the disease.

A remote community in Western Australia equips students for the future through an independent teaching program at home, and by sending senior students to a boarding school 1,500km away for vocational training.

Drought sees Pilbara stations sell off their entire herds, but this manager says it's not the end.

Cancer patients in the remote Pilbara will soon be trialling chemotherapy via video link, saving them a 1,500-kilometre trip for life-saving treatment.

Elite women's tennis will return to WA at least one more time after Perth was chosen to host the final of the Fed Cup competition in November, beating bids from Melbourne and Brisbane.

The WA Attorney-General casts doubt on whether more than $600,000 worth of severance payouts, made to former Health Department employees embroiled in a decades-long corruption scandal, will be recovered.

Chrys Barker has been confined to a wheelchair and is in need of 24-hour care since being critically injured in a car accident in 2014. He's now been awarded what is believed to be the biggest single personal injury settlement in Queensland.

Harry Bowman has been the face of the Top End's crocodile cruises for more than 30 years, but the time has come for him to say farewell to his toothless old mate Brutus the giant saltwater croc.

A former finance officer for the Summernats car festival, who stole thousands of dollars from the business to fuel a drug habit, avoids prison time.

People undergoing genetic testing will have more certainty about whether the variants in their genes risk causing cancer or are completely harmless, after a new international study.

Police announce a $500,000 reward for information about the rape of an 18-year-old woman in Melbourne's CBD last year, as the victim speaks about the "traumatic" attack for the first time.

Funding flows for low-income earners to buy a home and a new Women's and Children's Hospital are on the cards in South Australia's 2019 budget. Find out how the budget will impact you.

World number one Ash Barty is locked in to headline the 2020 Adelaide International, joining a strong list of female players including world number five Simona Halep.

Full-cycle docking of Collins Class submarines could disappear from its current site in South Australia by 2024, Freedom of Information (FOI) documents reveal.

An "extremely brave" woman aged in her 90s confronts two home invaders when they break into her retirement village unit.

An 87th minute header from Ryan McGowan delivers Sydney FC a 3-2 win after a 10-man Adelaide fought back from two goals down in a feisty encounter at Hindmarsh Stadium.

Yida Benny Xiong failed to put $300,000 from two foreign investors money into the purchase of a plot of land in Adelaide and instead spent the money himself.

Yida Benny Xiong ripped off two female foreign investors in excess of $300,000 in a property scam that was used to fund his luxurious lifestyle, an Adelaide court hears.

Businesses in SA's Riverland are urged to be on the lookout for fake $100 notes after one was passed at a bakery and two other incidents were reported to police.

Al Hassan Toure only made his senior debut for Adelaide United in August, but scores one goal and set up another as the Reds thumped Melbourne City to claim a third FFA Cup title in six years.

The Reds dominated the second half to take the cup home for the third time in FFA Cup history.

Australian batsman David Warner has scored his first Twenty20 international century as Australia piled on 233 runs against Sri Lanka at the Adelaide Oval.

David Warner belts a ton to power Australia to its fourth-highest Twenty20 score of 2-233, which proves to be more than enough as Sri Lanka falls 134 runs short in the first match of the men's team's international summer.

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.

Public transport policies are discouraging patronage in Adelaide, lobbyists say, after Freedom of Information figures uncover a significant decline in bus patronage in the first six months of the year.

Police are investigating whether there are links between a neighbourhood fight and damage caused to more than 50 cars in two streets in Adelaide's inner-south.

The owners of the mothballed Central Norseman gold mine in WA have been fined over the death of a worker fatally crushed in 2016.

A police investigation is underway in a quiet corner of WA's south-west, after more than 150 people brawled with baseball bats and poles near a local football club's post-grand final celebration.