Department for Infrastructure and Transport chief executive, Jon Whelan, said nothing was stolen during the attempt but the damage caused the system to enter a safety mode.

"What occurred by cutting the cable they went into a safety mode which meant we lost our signalling, we lost some of our communications and some of the boom gates came down temporarily until we instigated our safety protocols," he said.

The Ombudsman had ordered SA Police to release 19 documents about the relocation of the Thebarton police barracks for the new $3.2b Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

The Eyre Peninsula's Tunarama Festival has succumbed to sponsorship woes after 60 years. Festival president Sharon Humenick said she was proud of everyone who helped support Tunarama over the years, but this year's festival would be its last.

It may have taken them a decade to get back on the podium, but the Adelaide Thunderbirds have finally lifted a national netball league trophy for the first time since 2013.

Adelaide Fringe organisers have applied to Adelaide City Council to close Rundle Road in the East End from February 7 to March 21 next year.

The six-week closure will allow the expansion of the Garden of Unearthly Delights and Gluttony to include two new venues of 800 and 1000 seats that will spill onto Rundle Road.

Organisers say the new venues would host up to four shows a day for 28 days and improve disability access for the Fringe Corner Box Office.

The university councils only received the full business case for consideration last week, but approved it within days. Both universities say full details will be kept under wraps, due to commercial considerations, and they will only publicly release a summary.

COLLINGWOOD will be without key forward Brody Mihocek for Friday night's game against the Western Bulldogs at Marvel Stadium.

Mihocek reported hamstring tightness following the Magpies' 78-point win over Gold Coast at Heritage Bank Stadium.

Mullighan said EVs were far more expensive than their petrol counterparts, with a Hyundai Kona Elite electric model priced at $54,500 compared with a regular Kona at $26,900.

“Many battery electric vehicles are cost prohibitive, so they are above a price threshold that the fleet would normally pay for other fleet vehicles, but of course as technology improves and volume efficiencies are achieved it is expected price parity will occur sometime in the future,” he said.

The Malinauskas Government – which strongly backed amalgamation and would have re-established a merger commission of inquiry had the universities not “voluntarily” approved it – has committed $445.5m to support the merger via perpetual investment funds, land purchases and $30m for measures attract international students.

Treasurer Stephen Mullighan says that if the universities of Adelaide and South Australia don’t “voluntarily” agree to amalgamate they risk losing merger support funding while still facing a government-established inquiry to “find ways in which the universities can merge”.

A sea wall protecting the iconic Joe’s kiosk at Henley Beach is in danger of collapsing as sand continues to disappear along the city’s coastline, with an engineering report showing the 1950s structure needs urgent protection work.

The jobs of around 160 workers are uncertain after an Adelaide plastics manufacturer and supplier of wheelie bins to councils entered voluntary administration after 30 years of trading.