WA’s new housing minister has vowed to “carefully consider” an advocate group’s call for more tangible action to help address the region’s housing crisis.
Warren Hately
Catherine Massey
Despite the region’s overflowing tourism offerings, there will be just one destination this long weekend — Augusta.
New figures showing ambulance crews ramped up outside of regional hospitals indicates the South West health system is straining under similar pressure to Perth.
The South West wine sector is set to benefit from a new State Government investment fund.
A leading marine scientist says the McGowan Government’s failed smart drum line trial to catch and release sharks was a “dumb” waste of money that experts knew wouldn’t work before it started.
Residents have a chance to win $100 gift cards for road-testing the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River’s new website.
A last-minute sealer from Jay Collard proved the cherry on top for the Harvey Bulls after upsetting Augusta-Margaret River by two points.
Carly Laden
Veteran Liberal member Dr Steve Thomas will quit his Margaret River office to support his battered party colleagues in Bunbury, but new Labor MLC Jackie Jarvis is set to replace him.
The Margaret River-Busselton Tourism Association says tourism guru Guy Taylor did not have any direct involvement in the new branding material out now for comment from members.
The region’s peak tourism body has unveiled new branding to reflect a greater focus on the Capes environment and its subregions.
A spate of recent suicides across the region will inform a seminar for parents and carers at St Thomas More Primary School early next month.
In her first interview, new Labor MLA Jane Kelsbie said she wanted to represent everyone in Warren-Blackwood, regardless of their political affiliation.
The West has been given permission by WA’s Supreme Court to broadcast — for a limited time — the most extensive excerpts of the recording of Eric Edgar Cooke’s trial ever heard in public. LISTEN NOW.
Tim Clarke
In part two, WA’s worst killer confesses to shooting lovers Rowena Reeves and Nicholas August in 1963. Rowena revealed she bore the scar of the bullet wound until her death.
Tim Clarke and Joseph Catanzaro
In part three, Cooke reveals how he shot Swanbourne rower Brian Weir. He survived, but Brian’s brother says he was never the same — ‘it was murder’.
An unlicensed driver who killed a Mt Barker legend shortly after snorting methamphetamine at a petrol station has faced the fury of a judge.
Shannon Hampton
Feuding families have been put on notice by an Albany magistrate after two women were sent to prison for a drunken group assault sparked by family tensions.
Kellie Balaam
Local councillors at a major regional centre are under fire for handing themselves a combined $10,000 payment after sacrificing part of their allowances last year.
Michael Traill
A former East Kimberley College student has described his relief after being cleared of criminal involvement in a fire that burnt down a Kununurra school building two years ago.
Four officers from both the Pilbara and Kimberley districts completed their training this week with each district allocated two drones to deploy locally when they are required.
Staff from town and remote community schools made the trip to the Kimberley’s first Aboriginal educators’ conference at the Dampier Peninsula community over four days from May 17
Richard Goyder is 2021’s West Australian of the Year for his commitment to philanthropy. Now he has called on West Australians to embrace passion and tolerance — and move towards reconciliation.
Kate Emery and Brianna Dugan
Got a great idea for Perth? Think you know how to sell it to the world? Tell us what it is and we’ll make sure it gets heard by the movers and shakers ahead of the crucial ‘Brand Perth’ summit.
Charlotte Elton
A growing number of WA businesses are ramping up their apprenticeship programs to combat skill shortages, with about a third of those surveyed intending to take on more trainees.
Former CBH chairman Wally Newman has been unsuccessful in his bid to return to the board he walked away from 14 months ago amid controversy.
Nearly one-fifth of WA aged care residents have either refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or missed out on jabs administered by the Federal Government’s in-reach clinics, The West can reveal.
A State-wide manhunt is under way for a man who police allege smashed his way through a glass window and several homes in Como, attacking officers and two elderly women in his violent escape.
Sarah Steger
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