James Wakelin is a reporter and producer with ABC News South Australia. He has worked in newsrooms in Adelaide, Darwin and Melbourne after starting his career in newspapers on the Eyre Peninsula.
As technology continues to evolve, tracking skills are not being called on as often for police investigations. But many are hoping the unique skill passed down over tens of thousands of years can be preserved. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this story includes the name and images of Indigenous people who have died.
Grant Stevens has witnessed a monumental shift in policing over his 42-year career, with the most pressing challenges now centred around recruiting and retaining officers.
Police Commissioner Grant Stevens sits down with James Wakelin to discuss the challenges of modern policing and the battle to retain officers.
South Australia's child protection minister has ordered an appraisal of her department's handling of complaints, following mounting foster carer claims of "disarray" within the agency.
Port Augusta is turning into a battleground for Labor and the Coalition's opposing solutions to reducing carbon emissions, with some threatening legal action if the Coalition wins government.
John Griffin, who has previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter, "stomped on" his victim with steel capped boots, the South Australian Supreme Court has heard.
Can trains help fix South Australia's long-term housing crisis? Labor is looking at a major rail revamp to improve services and get people out of their cars and onto the train network.
South Australia's code yellow emergency has been extended for metropolitan and peri-urban hospitals, but will be lifted for country hospitals. Respiratory infections have been largely blamed for the surge in demand, as the government works to add extra beds.
James Vlassakis was found guilty of being involved in four of the "bodies-in-the-barrels murders". He was given a life sentence but in 12 months' time, he will be eligible for parole.
For 70 First Nations football fans, it's the ultimate reward for effort — a chance to meet their heroes and do a lap of the Melbourne Cricket Ground in front of thousands of attendees.
Nicole Zuritta's friend was murdered in one of Australia's most notorious serial killings, turning her world upside down. Almost three decades on, she wants to reframe the way victims of the Snowtown murders are remembered.
Mark Ray Haydon, who was an accessory to Australia's worst serial killings, left the Adelaide pre-release centre on Thursday where he has been living on parole, the head of the Parole Board says.
Last-minute measures to monitor and control Snowtown accomplice Mark Ray Haydon have been imposed days before the 65-year-old's sentence is set to end and he is released into the community.
Australia has about 50 cultivators of medicinal cannabis but only a handful are grown outdoors in the sun.
The Supreme Court of South Australia will be asked to place temporary conditions on Snowtown accomplice Mark Haydon before his jail term ends in a few weeks.
An Adelaide book store owner has returned a letter detailing the service and death of a World War II soldier to his family.
Snowtown accomplice Mark Ray Haydon is being slowly reintroduced to the community, with the head of SA's Parole Board saying the "world has changed a lot" since he was taken into custody and he needs to learn how to use a mobile phone, access Centrelink and catch public transport.
The family of a man found dead in Adelaide's CBD 40 years ago speaks out ahead of the release of one of the men convicted of his murder. Last month, Bromley, who has always maintained his innocence, was granted parole by the SA Parole Board.
A motorist accused of travelling well over the speed limit has won his appeal, with the Supreme Court finding there was no proof the speed gun had been operated correctly.
Service station giant OTR agrees to pay back — or credit — $2.3 million in annual leave entitlements to 1,500 current and former employees across multiple states after a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation.
An Adelaide man who was murdered and found inside a wheelie bin at a rubbish dump has been described him as a 'kind' person who was 'full of empathy'. His sister confronted his killer through a victim impact statement in court.
The chair of SA's parole board says it is "concerning" that Snowtown bodies-in-the-barrels accomplice Mark Haydon is being prevented from adjusting to life in the community, despite being granted parole.
A man who spent 40 years in prison for a murder he maintains he did not commit says he feels "overwhelmed" to have been granted parole.
Convicted murderer Derek Bromley – who is reportedly the longest-serving Indigenous prisoner in the country, and has spent four decades in jail for a crime he maintains he never committed – has been granted parole.
A 76-year-old grandmother had a number of "unexpected injuries" following gall bladder surgery at a hospital in regional South Australia, an inquest has heard.