A guest speaker brought people to tears with his raw speech at a Lake Grace ball designed to highlight mental health in regional areas.
Hannah Whitehead
Melissa Sheil
Menang-Noongar elder Vernice Gillies on the Upper Kalgan: “The profusion of ancient sites along its banks is what makes it so unique and important to care for”.
Vernice Gillies
A Katanning woman has indicated she will fight accusations that her careless driving caused the death of two people and injured a third in Jerramungup last year.
A ban on fishing for greenlip abalone between Busselton Jetty and Shoal Cape west of Esperance will continue this season amid a continuing need for stocks to recover in size.
Sean Van Der Wielen
A ceremony was held to honour Police Remembrance Day in Katanning on Sunday, with community members joining local officers and emergency services at Police Pools to remember those lost in the line of duty.
Cameron Newbold
Hundreds joined a Great Southern town for the official 2024 Bloom Festival launch, marking a massive effort from the small community’s first Spring Bloom Markets.
A husband and wife who saved the life of a woman injured in a head-on crash in Arthur River last year have been awarded gold medallions for their life-saving efforts.
Menang-Noongar elder Vernice Gillies on welcome to country: “Our stance is that if you come from off-country, and you’re going onto another country, you need to be welcomed.”
A Bremer Bay man found with “depraved” child abuse material on his phone has been jailed for five months.
A Great Southern man has admitted 23 child sex abuse charges and indicated he will plead guilty to 16 more, most of which are against a member of his own family.
Georgia Campion
WA country football clubs are front and centre in a new health campaign to combat excessive and underage drinking.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Disgraced Perth cricketer Alex Hepburn has been given the green light to play in the top WA league despite having been barred from the sport in England and Wales for a decade.
Lauren Price
The administrator running the bikie-ridden CFMEU is weighing the future of two senior WA officials whose criminal pasts have dragged the local chapter through the mud.
Ben Harvey
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Sean Smith
A 35-year-old man who died in a tragic workplace incident at a roadworks site on the Mitchell Freeway has been identified as a father from Ireland.
There have been emotional scenes as the Perth Jewish community gathered for a poignant vigil to mark a year since Hamas’ devastating October 7 attack on Israel.
West Coast list boss Matthew Clarke has indicated the club will ask for more than Hawthorn’s first-round pick in exchange for premiership defender Tom Barrass.
Mitchell Woodcock
Ros Worthington — a charity icon and former Western Australian of the Year — has died after choosing to undertake voluntary assisted dying following a lung cancer diagnosis.
Police are investigating nazi graffiti over an advertisement for Liberal candidate for Basil Zempilas, in one of the first public cases since the symbols were outlawed in WA.
West Coast have put pick No.3 on the table as they look to be aggressive in this year’s trade period which officially opens on Monday.
Authorities are advising people to stay away from an out-of-control bushfire in Elleker, about 13km west of Albany, that is believed to have been deliberately lit.
Fourth-generation Manjimup farmer Thea Walker has been crowned the Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia’s 2024 WA Rural Ambassador.
Anjelica Smilovitis and Rebecca Turner
Saturday’s Kalgoorlie Cup drew a big crowd
Neale Harvey
A routine council meeting in Port Hedland descended into chaos during question time as repeated inquiries about mayor Peter Carter’s property ownership led to a heated exchange and a temporary recess.
A two-year pilot program expanding support for homeless people will be trialled in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, with the State Government providing $2 million to health service Bega Garnbirringu to run it.
Geraldton family day care superstar Margaret Yokwe says she feels incredibly honoured to be one of 13 West Australians recognised at the National Family Day Care Awards.
You might call me a ‘rebel without a cause,’ says Grab co-found Anthony Tan said. But I was on a mission to create something that could be ‘a force for good’.
Ernestine Siu
Economic stimulus in China could also be a shot in the arm for Nike and Starbucks, two major brands trying to orchestrate their own turnarounds.
Jesse Pound
Joker: Folie a Deux stumbled to just $US40 million ($58.7m) in US domestic ticket sales during its opening weekend, a far cry from the $US96.2m its predecessor brought in during its debut in 2019.
Sarah Whitten
A strike by Israel against Iran could raise fears of a disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and add a significant price risk premium.
Spencer Kimball
A pause in rate hikes has helped give buyers confidence as new home listings reach a record, almost-10-year high.
Nathan Schmidt
A WA anaesthetist who pioneered life-changing research into finding ways to make surgery safer for children has been recognised in this year’s prestigious Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.
Bethany Hiatt
A Catholic parish priest touched and squeezed a teenage girl’s thigh after she had drawn a cross symbol on her leg, a court has been told.
A State Government anti-ageism campaign is calling for a ban on generational terms such as ‘boomer’ and ‘millennial’ to avoid sowing division and fuelling stereotypes against older West Australians.
‘Heinous’ violence ‘usually reserved for a Hollywood movie’. That’s how the 50-hour kidnapping ordeal of a man lured to Australia in a multi-million dollar extortion plot was described in court.
Autonomous technology and virtual reality are gearing up to take over when Collie’s coal-fired power stations power down, with stage two of the WesTrac Technology Training Centre expansion almost complete.
Jessica Page