Editorial department

Elisa Rose

Mar 21 2023 Updated July 15, 2025

The Courier

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Courier journalist Elisa Rose took over as the newspaper's editor in November 2021.

Elisa began at The Courier as a journalist and is now the editor.

Green light for new motel

A two-storey motel at Oakbank has been approved by the Adelaide Hills Council Assessment Panel (CAP), after the planning firm in charge of the project revised designs due to “a significant amount of community feedback”. According to planning...

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Fin Dunford

20 Aug 2025

News

Student visa process ‘erratic’

A Crafers West man has resorted to taking court action after his nephew was denied an Australian student visa in what he believes was an unjust administration error. Reinhard Struve lodged documents to initiate a remedy in the Federal Circuit and...

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Elisa Rose

27 Aug 2025

Council and Politics

Resignations trigger supplementary elections

Four new councillors will be elected to Hills councils next month, following a wave of resignations earlier this year. The Adelaide Hills Council will hold two supplementary elections for its Ranges and Valleys wards, while Mt Barker residents will...

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Louis Mayfield

27 Aug 2025

Police

Homemade road sign sparks police warning

SA Police is warning the public not to alter road signs after a speed limit sign at Hahndorf was changed recently. The 60km/h sign on Ambleside Road had a 50km/h sign fixed over the top of it, in what some interpreted as a protest against the legal...

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Louis Mayfield

27 Aug 2025

Storied history of Kaffeehaus to end

An inter-generational Hahndorf business will close its doors after more than 20 years. The Kaffeehaus was founded in 2004 and has since been a family affair, with Heidi Hartnett and daughter Ashton Downing serving in the front of house, Ms...

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Ethan Long

22 Aug 2025

Community

Calls for shelter at Littlehampton park

The Littlehampton Community Association (LCA) is pushing for a shelter to be installed at the Willow Park reserve, despite being turned down by the Mt Barker Council. The LCA received $2500 from the Mt Barker Council’s community grants program to...

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Louis Mayfield

13 Aug 2025

Community

Ruby shines as a volunteer

Volunteering at Hills schools has not only earned Mt Barker High School student Ruby Forster an award, but it also proved that she could achieve her dreams while living with diabetes. The 17-year-old, pictured, was one of 13 South Australians who...

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Louis Mayfield

13 Aug 2025

Community

Fundraiser means cycling days

Nairne man Andrew Day will spend the next two months cycling from Perth to Adelaide and then on to Sydney, as he and his sons aim to raise $15,000 for the Cancer Council. About 10 years ago, after losing his father to prostate cancer, Mr Day rode...

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Fin Dunford

30 Jul 2025