Tag: Port Pirie 5540
Biofuels study in Cooper Basin
South Australian resource company Beach Energy and a US business General Atomics are doing a joint study on producing biofuels in the Cooper Basin.[MORE]
Labor pledge to extend tank rebate
Labor says it will extend a $200 rebate for household rainwater tanks to include those which are not plumbed into a house.[MORE]
SA jobless remains below national rate
Premier Mike Rann says SA has the lowest jobless rate among the states.[MORE]
Redmond busy: second debate offer rejected
Offered a second election debate with a day's notice, Isobel Redmond told the SA Premier she was too busy.[MORE]
Costings and data: SA election stoush continues
Stormwater data, health costings, economic terminology - the SA election fight has it all.[MORE]
Home bail for alleged abductor
A man charged with abducting his daughter from Port Pirie hospital last month has been released on home detention bail.[MORE]
Country health boost promised by ALP
More equipment, elective surgery and chemotherapy for country areas of SA have been pledged by Labor.[MORE]
Pair sentenced over car theft drug plot
A judge sentences two people over a 'colossally stupid' car theft and drugs plot.[MORE]
Bullying, abuse charges laid against bishop
An Anglican bishop in SA is facing church charges of bullying and abuse.[MORE]
No motive for alleged bashing murder, court told
The Supreme Court at Port Augusta has been told a Ceduna man offered two men a lift in his car before they bashed him and left him to die on the roadside.[MORE]
SA Liberals, ALP in dead heat poll
With less than two weeks until SA goes to the polls, Newspoll has the major parties in a dead heat.[MORE]
Rain brings smiles for SA farmers
SA farmers say heavy rain across wide areas could set them up for a good start to the season.[MORE]
Licence to go for life, warns Rann
The ALP says it will move to strip dangerous SA drivers of their licences permanently.[MORE]
More flooding and damage from SA rain
Storms and heavy rain have caused problems, keeping State Emergency Service crews busy overnight.[MORE]
Redmond pledges more for hospitals
Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond has unveiled a $300 million health and education package for South Australia, but refused to take questions about it from journalists.[MORE]
Low prices dampen top crop
Many South Australian farmers say they were disappointed with the 2009 grain harvest, despite achieving the second-largest yield on record.[MORE]
Miners call for $650m 'leg up'
South Australia's peak mining body says the state's resource potential will not be realised unless the major political parties make serious commitments to supporting growth in the mining industry.[MORE]
Promise of more outback roadworks
Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond is promising a road gang would be introduced to maintain and repair dirt roads in the far north of South Australia if the Liberals win the March 20 poll.[MORE]
Two more deaths on SA roads
A woman has died in a road crash at Aldinga on Adelaide's southern fringe.[MORE]
Liberals back off from bold jails pledge
Labor doubts the Liberals can pay for a bold promise to build new prisons in SA.[MORE]
'No point' in rural health network without bush doctors
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) says the Federal Government's plan for a national health and hospital network is welcome but it does not address the shortage of doctors in rural areas.[MORE]
SA grain harvest second-largest on record
South Australia's grain harvest has been the second-largest on record.[MORE]
Father in court on abduction charge
A man charged with abducting his four-year-old daughter from Port Pirie Hospital has made a brief court appearance.[MORE]
Tuna company quizzed on fingerling deaths
Cleanseas Tuna faces questions on deaths of a batch of southern bluefin tuna fingerlings.[MORE]
CFS mops up mid-north diesel spill
A b-double truck has rolled and spilled diesel in the mid-north of South Australia.[MORE]
