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Friends and family are mourning 16-year-old Todd Edmonds who fell of a cliff at Venus Bay on Eyre Peninsula.

Rough weather around Australia's coastline has caused several boating accidents and claimed the lives of two people.

The body of a 17-year-old boy missing off South Australia's coast has been retrieved, bringing to four the number of deaths on the water in a horror long weekend for boaties.

The body of a teenage boy from Victor Harbor has been recovered from a cave after a boating accident that also claimed the life of a 22-year-old man at Venus Bay on South Australia's West Coast.

The whale season has started and it's not just the tourist operators that are busy.

Two people have been killed in a road crash on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.

A South Australian ecologist is using sensors and poison in a state-of-the-art trap to catch one of the outback's most notorious predators.

A feral cat trap designed on the Eyre Peninsula is helping bring back native animals to the Venus Bay conservation park. The trap, which shoots the cat with a poisonous gel and is then licked off, was designed by ecologist Dr John Read from Secret Rocks, near Kimba. It’s still in the research and development phase, but is being trialled in a few national conservation parks, like the one at Venus Bay. Brooke Neindorf caught up with Liz McTaggert and Tayla Bowden from the Eyre Peninsula Natural Resources Management board about how the trap works in the park and how effective it has been.

Historic jetties damaged in South Australia's severe weather last week will be repaired with the help of $3.5 million pledged by the State Government.

South Australian taxpayers may be left to pay for the clean-up of a failed abalone aquaculture venture off the state's west coast after it went broke for a third time.

A Norwegian company that plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight has prompted fisheries to renew calls for a probe into a practice they say could damage their businesses.

A decades-old message in a bottle is found by a young boy during a fishing trip with his dad on a remote South Australian beach. Now, the search is on for its author.

The vulnerable species breeds year-round in captivity and arid zones — but a study of re-introduced populations on the Eyre Peninsula suggests that may not be the case in southern parts of Australia.

A team of volunteers, including a woman with chronic illness, have worked to piece together the untold histories of soldiers whose stories might otherwise have never been told.

Elders from the Port Lincoln Barngarla Richards family say their sacred ancestral burial grounds in the Lincoln National Park is being damaged by park visitors.

A 43-year-old man is charged with the murder of his 64-year-old travelling companion on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.

Mystery surrounds the alleged murder of a New South Wales man at a renowned South Australian fishing spot. Dylan Smith reports.

SA Police say a Central Coast man, whose body was found in the South Australian town of Venus Bay on Monday, most probably died at Poochera on Sunday.

A man pleads not guilty to murdering travel companion Peter Hillier, whose body was found at a Venus Bay holiday home on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula in May last year.

Bird enthusiasts in South Australia are delighted to see a boost in numbers of migratory species and local shorebirds after 18 months of wetter conditions.

When Konstantinos Paleologoudias left Greece as a fresh-faced 18-year-old in 1950 he began an adventure that would help shape two small towns 14,000km away on SA's west coast.

The search for a missing surfer on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula has resumed, with police finding items that will be sent off for forensic examination.

A man allegedly told several lies to authorities after his travel companion was found dead at a Venus Bay house on the Eyre Peninsula, a South Australian Supreme Court has heard.

Poochera art gallery owner Ronald Miller tells the Supreme Court of South Australia that he was drinking with the two men at the back of his gallery when the pair became drunk and started fighting.

The trial into the alleged murder of Peter Hillier on SA's Eyre Peninsula has been abandoned, after evidence given by the prosecution's key witness did not match its allegations.

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