The Great Southern’s business community had much to celebrate on Saturday with 14 business awards bestowed on the region’s best.
Eliza Kavanagh
Olivia Ford
Sheep farmers will get an extra $32.7 million to help them transition through to live exports ban as the new Agriculture Minister insists she has been listening to the sector and the WA Government.
Katina Curtis
The State Government’s initiative to decrease homelessness and help vulnerable families in the Great Southern has received a significant boost with 13 new social houses in Katanning.
Hannah Whitehead
Farm-to-plate meat producers in the State’s south will band together to form a co-op in the face of a Bunbury abattoir’s decision to stop animal processing for small producers.
Georgia Campion
Barbeque experts will descend on a Wheatbelt town this month to raise money to kickstart a men’s refuge project in the shire.
Years of low rainfall are likely to mean a long and intense bushfire season ahead, but the vast majority of West Australians living in bushfire-prone areas are unprepared.
Jake Dietsch
Seven Great Southern businesses have been recognised for their support of staff who volunteer with emergency services.
Ausgold has acquired two additional leases for the upcoming gold mine at Badgebup, 40km north-east of Katanning, doubling the size of the 3.04 million ounce project.
Australia’s biggest fundraiser for kids has broken its record in donations.
Aged care centres in regional WA are running at a loss and face closure without investment to help them keep up with lucrative mining wages, a Senate committee in Perth is set to hear on Friday.
WA farmland has hit the second-highest half-yearly value in the last 29 years, jumping by 24.7 per cent from 12 months ago.
A FIFO worker who left a father with a fractured skull and brain bleeds from a one-punch attack at a pub south of Perth has been sentenced to more than two years’ imprisonment.
Rebecca Le May
First homebuyers look set to be targeted in the upcoming State election with the Liberal Party promising to lift stamp duty exemptions by $100,000 to win their votes.
Joe Spagnolo
Thousands of WA families can’t get ‘defective pipes’ ripped out of their homes quickly enough as insurers decline to renew policies on properties hit with repeated water bursts.
John Flint
Nicheliving's giving up its building license will relieve abandoned customers, but taxpayers will have to foot the $40 million bill, sparking anger.
Jessica Page
Tim Clarke
A driver and her passenger have been killed in a head-on collision on the notorious Indian Ocean Drive north of Perth.
A Perth man is missing in Bali after being swept out to sea by an ‘extreme’ wave while saving a distressed swimmer.
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Transforming Henderson into the biggest naval precinct in the southern hemisphere is ‘the most significant Defence offering to WA since Federation’ by Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles.
A navy veteran battling PTSD was left waiting in a bed in the middle of a busy emergency department for at least 48 hours because no mental health beds were available.
A new weather radar in Karratha is providing better visibility of weather systems and less interference on the Bureau of Meteorology’s website and the BOM Weather app.
Madelin Hayes
Detectives have charged a man with grievous bodily harm over an alleged assault where another man was found seriously injured and unconcious in a Derby driveway.
Caleb Runciman
Students from a Karratha school are preaching to the choir when it comes to spreading this year’s Telethon message, Incredible Together.
The Federal and State governments will spend a combined $60 million on a new water treatment plant in Busselton amid increasing supply demands and a need to reduce reliance on coastal bores.
Seven Pilbara projects will share in more than $1 million in funding in the latest round of RED Grants aimed at bolstering the region’s employment, business resilience and economic diversity.
The push to commercialise solid-state batteries for electric vehicles is well underway, but analysts say auto giants could be on the cusp of turning to a different kind of transformative science.
Sam Meredith
Tech companies are increasingly backing in nuclear energy to meet the growing power demands of data centres.
Pippa Stevens
The company formerly known as Facebook appears to have found its footing in virtual and augmented reality through smart glasses.
Salvador Rodriguez and Jonathan Vanian
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
As the Art Gallery of WA enjoys bumper crowds, director Colin Walker signs on for five more years and unveils plans for a state-of-the-art sibling to the current institution.
Simon Collins
More than two dozen people have been killed on WA’s roads in the less than two months since the State Government’s road safety summit, sparking questions about the effectiveness of the emergency roundtable.
Dylan Caporn
A one-time Rebels bikie who handed back his patch says he was travelling with pepper spray due to ‘tension’ in the gangs last year.
Despite growing cost of living pressures, West Australians dipping into their pockets for Telethon have shown themselves to be even more generous than ever this year.
Police forces in Australia and across the globe want to learn more from WA Police about how they are solving so many cold cases.
With Christmas getting closer, Australia Post has announced the deadline to send mail to far-away loved ones.
Holly Prentice