Augusta-Margaret River Times

15th annual auctionWinning work puts spotlight on event

The annual Margaret River Art Auction will take place this weekend, but the grand prize winner has already been announced.

Warren Hately

cowabungaWA hard border puts surf slam in doubt

Warren Hately

pandemic pleasuresFingers sings through crisis

Fingers Mitchell Cullen will release a new album, Through the Storm, at The River on Saturday night.

Jackson Lavell-Lee

on the fast trackCapes rail bid

South West stakeholders are pushing for the Perth to Bunbury fast-train feasibility study to be extended to Busselton in the long term, with Margaret River a future option.

Jackson Lavell-Lee

sustainable technologyGlobal win for Ecocene

A Margaret River environmental tech start-up has scored big in an international challenge.

Warren Hately

Surfing protestPaddle-out to fight coast plan

Protest group Preserve Gnarabup is calling all surfers who support their campaign against development on the coast to paddle out tomorrow morning.

Warren Hately

Main street makeoverUpgrade still on Xmas deadline

Main-street redevelopment pain has moved further up the hill, but Augusta-Margaret River Shire chiefs remain adamant the project will finish in time for Christmas.

Warren Hately

Bushfire warningBurn now or face risks

A bushfire safety group has again raised serious concerns about fuel loads surrounding the Margaret River township.

Warren Hately

surfingCapes juniors take titles

Capes region surfers dominated the final event of the Woolworths WA Junior Surf Titles at Trigg Beach on Sunday.

greypower backlashForest action heats up

Forest industry workers have panned Tuesday’s mass protest by anti-logging grandmother activists as an illegal publicity stunt.

Housing advocacyFunds win to help battlers

Local housing advocacy group Just Home is celebrating a big funding win while also looking for a new co-ordinator.

Royalties rumbleLocal MPs duke it out

Two Capes MPs have fallen out over a bid to review the Nationals’ Royalties for Regions program to include upkeep costs.

Warren Hately

coke bustDuo on drug counts after police raids

A Quindalup man has allegedly been caught with 80g of cocaine and charged with several drug-dealing offences.

Jackson Lavell-Lee

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Bush legendsThe decision that saved surf legend Dave Macaulay

Dave Macaulay looks from his balcony to his hometown cliffs that hold such great sadness and will always wonder what would have happened if, on a fateful day in 1996, he had made a different choice.

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Dust flies‘The trick is survival’: Kal Desert Race kicks off

Perth-based extreme 2WD class driver Chris Giles was among the race’s first-time competitors having previously made the pilgrimage out as a course car driver.

Tom Zaunmayr

Moment in timeKal COVID pic project to go on show

Locked in her car at a socially safe distance, Morrison photographed more than 500 families in their front yard — from dads dancing in the driveway to mums drinking their way through the madness

Indiana Lysaght

Bail opposedAlleged teen groper ‘exposed himself’ to cop

The 17-year-old, who cannot be named because he is a minor, was charged with indecently assaulting five women on six separate occasions in Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Coles and Woolworths on August 11.

Taylar Amonini

Mental healthCounselling service to boost support for Kambalda women

The new service would be aimed at supporting women’s health and wellbeing will be starting on Wednesday

Minister’s commitmentShark tagging to ramp up off Esperance after fatality

Tagging numbers have so far lagged behind last year’s effort but WA Fisheries Minister Peter Tinley said next month — the best time to undertake tagging — the program would ramp up again.

“deplorable traffic history”Suspended driver jailed again

A magistrate has slammed a man for his “deplorable traffic history” after he told the police he was his brother when caught driving on a lifetime suspension — his 12th no-authority-to-drive offence.

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Done deal?Support grows for Shandong’s bid for Cardinal Resources

Cardinal is eager to put the seven-month tit-for-tat bidding war behind it, saying it is causing “unwarranted delays” to developing the project.

Daniel Newell

Mortgage reliefThe data dump that will force RBA’s hand on rates

This week’s inflation figures are expected to see a big jump for the September quarter but that won’t deter the Reserve Bank of Australia from cutting the cash rate when it meets in November.

Colin Brinsden

Deepest wellStrike Energy plunges new depth in Perth Basin

The gas play is drilling the deepest well on the Australian mainland just 350km north of Perth as part of an appraisal program for its West Erregulla discovery.