Indie-pop superstars Lime Cordiale will headline the 2025 Boab Metals Ord Valley Muster alongside Australian rock royalty Mark Seymour & The Undertow, as well as alt-pop sensation Thelma Plum.
Cain Andrews
Western Australia’s only stand-alone Aboriginal community-controlled childcare centre is seeking additional funding to ensure it can continue its work.
Natasha Clark
The shoal of swimmers, each with an attendant boat, looked like a school of herring, with a fishing fleet in attendance.
Malcolm Quekett
The owner of a caravan park popular with leavers during the week of celebrations is facing a $4000 bill to replace a sign which was completely covered in graffiti.
Oliver Lane
Geraldton has recorded the highest house price rise over the 12 months to October in all of regional Australia, according to fresh property data.
Matthew Paddick
Shares in a historic landholding which could add another 1000 homes between Busselton and Margaret River have returned to the market.
Warren Hately
South West residents are being told to keep a lookout for the toxic pokeweed plant after a weed was recently removed at a Perth property.
Busselton council has decided the benefits of bringing the adoption of its 2025/26 budget forward to June would not outweigh the risks or community concern despite a push from a councillor in July’s meeting.
Residents across Busselton, Augusta and Margaret River are among the first in regional Australia to be connected to Optus’ 5G network.
Amber Lilley
While attendance was good at this year’s Busselton White Ribbon Silent March, event organisers say they were disappointed to see young men still not attending in strong enough numbers.
Albany police are seeking public assistance in locating a 49-year-old man who has not been seen for three days.
Georgia Campion
Former Collingwood player and Albany Racing Club general manager Mark Bayliss has been fined for a ‘very clumsy attempt’ at circumventing a Racing and Wagering WA grant process.
Proud Albany Harness Racing Club member Ken Davies says the club’s professionalism and strength is a “feather in its cap” as it celebrates 50 years at Harold Reid Paceway this season.
Harry Grigson
Middleton Beach Green have moved to the top of the 2024-25 Lower Great Southern Bowling League ladies’ division one ladder, while reigning men’s pennant holders Emu Point Red remain undefeated.
Tim Scott
This year’s Goldfields T-ball season is in full swing, with 11 teams battling it out to claim junior and senior titles.
Carwyn Monck
BHP has launched a grant program to help Goldfields communities transition through the suspension of its WA Nickel operations.
Eastern Goldfields College students have been crowned the winners of this year’s STEM Innovation Experience.
Donning a pair of boxing gloves, a young Kalgoorlie-Boulder local is set to step out of her comfort zone and into the ring for a cause close to her heart.
Anneke de Boer
Police were called to a home in Wannanup on Sunday night following reports of a disturbance.
Rachel Fenner
A mother and her baby are recovering after allegedly being confronted by a man with an axe in a shopping centre carpark – who is accused of stealing their car and then racing away from pursuing police.
Tim Clarke
Waroona shire president Mike Walmsley believes any company proposing to mine in the South West needs to conduct community engagement “thoroughly” amid a national exploration body’s push in the region.
Sean Van Der Wielen
A Mandurah woman says she remains homeless due to the shortage of Legal Aid lawyers, while legal experts continue to raise concerns about a shortfall in funding.
Tenders have opened for the development of an artificial reef in Carnarvon following recent criticism from both the Liberals WA and Opposition about the failure to get the project in the water.
Jessica Moroney
The Shire of Carnarvon has been honoured at the 2024 Volunteer Employer Recognition Awards for its outstanding support of employees involved in emergency services.
An exhibition featuring the work of 11 Aboriginal artists from the Gascoyne is on display after a successful opening night last week.
The State Government has been slammed for neglecting regional communities after failing to deliver an artificial reef in a Gascoyne town, which was promised to be in the water by the end of the year.
Luke Lawson
Town of Port Hedland councillors have voted to allocate an additional $10,000 to the 2025 Spinifex Spree Carnival to secure headline acts.
The Broome Barracudas have returned home from the annual Hancock Prospecting Pilbara Championships in Karratha donning silver medals with the team placing second in the competition.
Madelin Hayes and Cain Andrews
The Kings have booked their ticket to the Broome Basketball Association men’s A-grade grand final after taking down the Gantheaume Pointers in a thrilling preliminary final on Wednesday night.
The case which saw Port Hedland councillor Camilo Blanco censured is back in front of the State Administrative Tribunal after the councillor failed to publish a public apology.
UPDATED: Rio Tinto has sacked operations staff working at three of its Pilbara iron ore mines and shrunk the scale of two other proposed developments.
Adrian Rauso and Simone Grogan
State environmental approval to extend the life of the Karratha Gas Plant is looking more likely after Reece Whitby finalised the almost-900-day appeal process.
Matt Mckenzie
Woodside Energy’s massive Pluto LNG plant on the Burrup Peninsula was shut down on Monday and the cause is still under investigation.
