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‘The hardest part was her pain’: Dad’s plea for safer roads

Mount Barker, South Australia · Mount Barker

‘The hardest part was her pain’: Dad’s plea for safer roads

Richard Scott knows firsthand how devastating a car crash can be. After supporting his daughter Holly through recovery, he’s determined to spare other parents the same trauma. It was just another Sunday night in July 2017 when Richard Scott opened his front door in Mount Barker to see his friend Sergeant Joe McDonald standing there, uniformed, silent, sombre. Richard initially thought it was a casual visit – they had just played footy together …Read Article

Mid North man dies in Meadows crash

Meadows · Meadows

Mid North man dies in Meadows crash

A Mid North man has died following a serious crash at Meadows on Sunday morning. About 2am Sunday June 22, […] Subscribe or Login to see the rest of the content.See the Story

Parents and teachers fed up with 'inaction' on school violence - The Mt Barker Courier

Mount Barker, South Australia · Mount Barker

Parents and teachers fed up with 'inaction' on school violence - The Mt Barker Courier

Parents and a former teacher say students and staff at Echunga Primary School are experiencing violent and disruptive behavior so regularly it has become normalised, with little communication to families about incidents. A Department for Education...Read Article

Event brings home car crash consequences - The Mt Barker Courier

The Mt Barker community is being invited to participate in an “eye-opening” session about driver safety, presented by a firefighter and a road crash survivor. SA MFS station officer Doug MacDonald-Taylor, who has seen the devastation car crashes...Mount Barker, South Australia · Mount Barker Read Article

Hillgrove Resources finds more copper outside Kanmantoo resource

HGO spots copper outside of existing Kanmantoo mine resource Deepest drill hole intersected 2.4m at 0.9% copper and 0.04g/t gold Resource definition drilling has also intersected multiple positive results Drilling continuing with the goal of growing the resource base Special Report: Hillgrove Resources has found copper mineralisation outside the existing resource while drilling at its Kanmantoo operations in South Australia. The company is und…Gold · Kanmantoo Read Article

Contract awarded for regional SA freight route upgrades - Fully Loaded

Image: South Australian Department for Infrastructure and TransportSouth Australian civil engineering company Bardavcol has been awarded the contract for the $150 million upgrade upgrade of the Mount Barker Interchange. A joint venture between BMD and Leed will undertake the other part of the road upgrades, being awarded the contract for the Verdun Interchange Upgrade. The interchange projects aim to improve connectivity to the South Eastern Fre…Mount Barker, South Australia · Mount Barker Read Article

Letters, June 25, 2025 - The Mt Barker Courier

Drivers beware WE live in the Hills and have recently suffered two car tyre punctures in quick succession. Our local RAA rescuer told us that he is now attending around ten tyre puncture call-outs per day. Our tyre servicing business has told us...Mount Barker, South Australia · Mount Barker Read Article

Battery plan to go ahead despite fire fear - The Mt Barker Courier

The construction of a 4.95 megawatt battery energy storage system at Meadows will go ahead despite being located in an area of high bushfire risk without an emergency management plan. The Mt Barker Council approved the development at a Council...Meadows · Meadows Read Article

Letters, June 18, 2025 - The Mt Barker Courier

Unquestioned The recent article ‘Uninsurable’ in The Courier (June 4) presents a dire view of climate risk in Mayo – but offers little scrutiny of its source or the model-based assumptions it relies on. For context, the risks posed in the...Mount Barker, South Australia · Mount Barker Read Article

'Bold' plan needed: development board was rail or O-Bahn style transport - The Mt Barker Courier

The director of the local regional development board says the State Government needs to consider “bold and ambitious” measures in the Hills, such as passenger rail or an O-Bahn-style busway, with data revealing that SA spends a fraction of what...Infrastructure · Mount Barker Read Article

Culture issues: councillors concede issues within council - The Mt Barker Courier

Some Mt Barker councillors have conceded that there are issues within the council, while others have defended its culture, claiming it has improved under Mayor David Leach. Weeks after the resignation of former Councillor Narelle Hardingham, who...Culture · Mount Barker Read Article

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