Editorial department

Fin Dunford

Mar 21 2023 Updated March 12, 2025

The Courier

1 min read

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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