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At-risk dunnart is face of postage stamp

The island's small and adorable nocturnal marsupial, the dunnart features on a series of six postage stamps released on Tuesday by Australia Post as...

Free entry to park leads to higher visitation

Free entry into Flinders Chase has been extended until the end of August to further support the community and tourism economy as the Island...

Artists take part in festival in new and curious ways | PHOTOS

After a decade of bringing Kangaroo Island artists to Adelaide for the South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA) curator Fleur Peters says the 2020...

Parndana Sport Club welcome $35,000 lighting investment

Greater numbers of sporting games and training sessions is expected to be held at the Parndana netball courts due to a recent successful application...

KI community urged to remain vigilant

Acting Mayor Bob Teasdale calls on all islanders to remain COVID-19 vigilant, despite the low numbers of cases recorded in South Australia."We are witnessing...

Yumbah Aquaculture releases critical evaluation of KIPT’s EIS response document

Yumbah Aquaculture has released a critical evaluation of Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers' response document for its proposed port at Smith Bay. In other developments,...

Stantons stand strong, plan Stokes Bay Genetics ram sale

The Stanton family have had an exceptionally challenging year, recently losing three farms, housing, infrastructure, pets and well over 4000 head of sheep and...

There’s a trapdoor spider on my kitchen floor

A winter downpour a few weeks back flushed out a rather impressive spider that somehow ended up on my kitchen floor.Knowing we had a...

Reliving the day the fire marched down Bark Hut Road

Bill Roper like many Kangaroo Island residents is still trying to get his head around the summer's bushfires.He lost his house, a shed, 8...

KI sail trade comes to life on new ‘Mosquito Fleet II’ DVD

Chris Frizell was lucky to work on the sailing ketches that plied the waters around Kangaroo Island carrying goods of all shapes.Unusually for the...

Fossil tour of discovery for KI high school student Jack Wilson

In the eery, dark depths of an Australian cave, high school students are learning first-hand about thousands of years of incredible natural history. Among them...