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Susan Richter

Mar 11 2025 Updated March 11, 2025

The Courier

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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

Homemade road sign sparks police warning

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Sleeping ‘Blue-ty’

A koala had an early morning adventure inside the Heysen Tunnels over the weekend. SA Police said the koala was spotted by traffic cameras around 4.15am on Sunday, August 3, on an elevated ledge inside the tunnel and appeared to have settled in for...

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Park thefts prompt security upgrade

Five break-ins and some visitors leaving without paying in the past month have prompted the Strathalbyn Caravan Park management to invest more in security. The park is run by the Strathalbyn Oval Controlling Committee and chair Craig Maidment said...

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Ethan Long

06 Aug 2025

Police

High steaks offender

There was a “high steaks pursuit” at Dawesley last week, after a cow was spotted with a bucket on its head. In a social media post last week, SA Police said a patrol responded to reports of a “cow acting suspiciously” alongside Old Princes...

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Elisa Rose

26 Mar 2025