Mining at Olympic Dam and at Oz Minerals' Prominent Hill mine was halted when a storm destroyed power transmission lines and blacked out South Australia on September 28. Sign up here.

A severe weather warning is in place for damaging winds across SA as heavy rainfall smashes the state with power outages reported across Adelaide.

South Australia last week committed funding for a study on a new A$500 million ($366 million) electricity link to the eastern states which could alleviate the risks. ($1 = 1.3644 Australian dollars) ...

Last year, renewables provided a whopping 60% of South Australia’s electricity supplies. The remarkable progress came as national climate policy was gripped by paralysis – so how did it happen?

Utility companies said about 290,000 homes and businesses in southeast Queensland and another 16,000 in northeast New South Wales were still without power on Sunday.