Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Yorke Peninsula Country Times

Established 1865.

Distributed across the entire Yorke Peninsula, from Port Broughton in the north to Stenhouse Bay in the south.

Published Tuesdays.
(Wednesdays after a South Australian long weekend).

Print and digital editions.

Digital edition available to subscribers.

Website with online news and digital edition.

Yorke Peninsula Country Times articles

Latest articles

Ratepayers enlist Pangallo

Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Community
Rachel Hagan. In the wake of the suspension of elected member Adam Meyer from the Yorke Peninsula Council, a crowd of almost 200 people rallied at a Yorke Peninsula Ratepayers Association meeting where speakers called for an audit into the council ... YPRA chair Ian Markos said the turnout was a good indication of the level of anger the community had towards YPC for the way it had treated Cr Meyer ...

Councillor walks out

Sarah Herrmann. Yorke Peninsula Council elected member Adam Meyer walked out of his first council meeting after being suspended from elected office ... “I’m unsure whether I can declare a conflict of interest tonight because I actually haven’t been issued with the agenda,” Cr Meyer said.

Hot, hot, hot: record-breaking temperatures

Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Climate
A week before parts of Yorke Peninsula soared above 40 degrees, the Bureau of Meteorology released its official record of Australia’s climate, water and significant weather events for 2024. The report ... revealed South Australia recorded its second hottest year on record, being on average 1.6 degrees warmer than previous years.

Earlier articles

Shark plan labelled “city centric”

Wilson McShane. Narungga MP Fraser Ellis has labelled a $500,000 shark safety initiative "city centric". Mr Ellis has expressed concern about the program which will fund Surf Life Saving SA to monitor beaches. "It seems ridiculous there have been fatal shark attacks on Yorke Peninsula and Eyre Peninsula, yet a body with no footprint in either region is commissioned to shark proof the region," he said.

Yorketown’s 263-run partnership rewrites recent records

Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Cricket
Wilson McShane. Not many cricketers can say they have made an A grade century.

War on mozzies heats up

Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Council
Michelle Daw. Barunga West Council has intensified pest control efforts after frustrated Fisherman Bay and Port Broughton residents reported this summer’s insect problem as the worst they have ever experienced ... “We didn’t move up here to spend summer in our house”: Robyn Lyons, Fisherman Bay.
Robyn Lyons and Julie Elliott

Top-up sought to train butchers

Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Business
Michelle Daw. A Moonta butcher has called for the Federal Government to top up apprentice wages to make them more appealing to young people. Rhys O’Donohue of Moonta Gourmet Meats has two apprentices and said he was always looking for more.

Students begin their country practice

Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Council
A trio of fifth-year University of Adelaide medical students began their practical experience on the Copper Coast last week.
Browns Beach rocks

Tragedy: Browns Beach rocks claim another victim

Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Fishing
Michelle Daw. A notorious rocky headland at Browns Beach in Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park has claimed another victim, with the death of a recreational angler at the weekend ... Mr Mohsini, who emigrated to Australia from Afghanistan, is the fourth person since 2019 to have died while fishing at Browns Beach.

The Yorke Peninsula Country Times was established in 1865.

Its most northerly point of distribution is Port Broughton, and reaches as far South as Stenhouse Bay, encompassing the entire Yorke Peninsula.

Committed to the function of serving a cross section of people and businesses in the community, the newspaper fills its pages with local news, photographs, current local events, community achievements/events and local sports results.

The paper also carries a comprehensive real estate section which has enough support to produce a seasonal Home and Property Guide, Community Calendar, Farming Extra, Community and Sports sections.

YPCT produces two biennial supplements for the Kernewek Lowender (May 2023) and the other for Australia’s oldest Agricultural Field Days, the Yorke Peninsula Field Days at Paskeville (September 2023) as well as the annual Copper Coast Visitors’ Guide.

YPCT began production of bi-yearly lifestyle publication, Yorkes Magazine, in March 2022.

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Michael Ellis
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Editor
Rhiannon Koch
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