A critical transport link in the Kimberley has been awarded the top gong at the WA Engineering Excellence Awards after being successfully rebuilt ahead of schedule when it was destroyed by devastating floods.
Katya Minns
Bethany Hiatt
A 3.5m salt water crocodile sighting has resulted in the closure of multiple WA beaches.
Natasha Clark
A 44-year-old Broome man, Halim Neil Hadji Mohd Noor, has appeared before court after being charged in relation to a fire that threatened homes in Bilingurr on Friday morning.
Cain Andrews
A child has been pricked by a needle found in the playground of a Broome primary school amid residents’ complaints of an alarming increase in the number of needles being discarded across the tourist town.
A senior police officer has revealed new ‘lines of investigation’ have emerged during his nearly week-long stay in Broome, where he is probing the 2022 rape and assault of a woman at Cable Beach.
Families and community groups gathered at Yiramalay Studio School’s open day last week to explore its innovative education model and the latest site additions.
A mark left on the arm of Broome man Josh Warneke after he was found dead in 2010 could have been made by a vehicle’s tyre.
Phil Hickey
The Shire of Broome has made its final decision to extend the Cable Beach vehicle ramp closure from December through to the end of February each year in an effort to protect turtle hatchlings.
Victoria Cross recipient Keith Payne visited Warmun in the East Kimberley for the first time since COVID to reconnect with friends and the country which healed his PTSD.
Mr Warneke’s body was found on the outskirts of Broome on February 26, 2010, after he spent the night out with friends and decided to walk home to Roebuck Estate.
The Broome Basketball Association’s semester two basketball competition is nearly halfway through after teams went head-to-head last Wednesday night.
Agritourism is on the rise in WA in what appears to be a win for budget-conscious consumers and landowners looking to diversify their income during a cost-of-living crisis.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Cameron Burgess has had to bide his time to become the eighth West Australian to step onto the pitch in an English Premier League game - and the Ipswich Town defender is already feeling the itch.
Ben Smith
Not only is the use of the heavily armoured squad in juvenile detention centres cause for concern, the officers themselves view it as the worst, most stressful part of their job.
Rebecca Le May
WA Police have ratcheted up their focus on WA business playboy Yusuf Khan, raiding his Northbridge nightclub.
Ben Harvey
Famed prospector Mark Creasy is seeking to rescue a collapsed Pilbara miner weeks after buying the company’s big pile of secured debt.
Matt Mckenzie
The head honcho of Australian mining’s top headline-grabber has fired back against critics, saying Federal Labor should leave WA alone. He also reveals why the ‘Pilbara Killer’ is his company’s best friend.
Adrian Rauso
The City of Joondalup’s oldest surviving building could be Perth’s next historical tourism destination, with expressions of interest sought for a commercial operator at Duffy House.
The low-profile Western Australian outpost of a sprawling Chinese mining empire wants more gold and will push ahead with plans to further cement itself as a key local player.
The housing boom has done more than drive up property values — it is also sending people into shops and fuelling the return of Perth’s favourite retail strips.
The launch of Esperance’s new tourism brand has a simple objective — to challenge the perception of the WA south-east coastal community as a summer-only, kangaroos-on-the-beach destination.
Neil Watkinson
The closure of a bespoke livestock slaughtering service near Bunbury augurs a major problem for gourmet producers in the Capes region
Warren Hately
A 26-year-old Geraldton man accused of ploughing into a power pole with so much force that it split into two and then fleeing the scene, leaving a passenger with serious injuries, has been refused bail.
Jessica Moroney
The City of Greater Geraldton says installation for the yellow submarine is a few weeks away, after preparations for it to be installed.
YouthCARE is set to expand the reach of the Nature Work Foundation’s BUILD UP ZONE program after taking ownership of the initiative.
Margaret River has once again scored high in a ranking no one wants, named for one of the worst regional locations for accidents involving kangaroos.
China’s exports rose by 8.7 per cent year-on-year in US dollar terms in August, according to the customs agency.
Evelyn Cheng
Apple just wrapped up an event at its headquarters in California, where it unveiled new versions of the iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch. Here’s everything you need to know ...
Hayden Field, Ashley Capoot, Kif Leswing and Todd Haselton
Wall Street is gearing up for one of the most important economic releases of the year, and markets are looking at the possibility of a jumbo rate cut by the Fed depending on what it shows.
Jeff Cox
The cost of a college education — long touted as a requirement for a fulfilling, high-paying job — has soared over the last couple of decades, stoking scepticism among Gen Z about the true value of a degree.
Morgan Smith
A meth-addled mother has been jailed for lighting two potentially disastrous fires at the height of Perth’s scorching 2024 summer — seven years after being jailed for another arson spree.
Tim Clarke
Every Australian state is set to be blasted with rain over the coming week - with some locations forecast to receive up to a month’s worth of rainfall in just a few days.
Blake Antrobus
A WA Police officer has been seriously injured in a suspected hit-and-run in Perth’s inner east.
A Goldfields community is being urged to ‘be alert but not alarmed’, with police warning two men entered bushland before firing a gun in what could be a targeted attack.
Local hard rock musician Laurie Luke relearnt how to talk, walk and play guitar after a brain haemorrhage left him in a six-day coma.
Members of the Sikh community want tougher penalties for those who carry out faith-based hate crimes after it emerged the man who posted footage of himself desecrating the Gutka Sahib could escape with a fine.
Emily Moulton