The full program for this year’s Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival goes live today and ticket sales open to punters on Monday.
Warren Hately
Catherine Massey
Leading winery Vasse Felix has upped its stake in the region with the purchase of the Margaret River Hotel.
Ousted Warren-Blackwood MLA Terry Redman says he is gutted to lose his seat, but wishes Labor’s Jane Kelsbie all the best on his patch.
Green-Left voters at the Margaret River polling booth have played a key role in ending Warren-Blackwood MLA Terry Redman’s political career.
Some of the region’s best have shown the Capes boasts some of WA’s top bodyboarders once again.
Margaret River’s men’s division Hawks basketball squad has returned battered and bruised from a hard-scoring Country Champs competition in Perth.
Witchcliffe Eco-Village will continue to grow after councillors last week unanimously backed measures proposed on the grounds of affordable housing.
Young people across the region are encouraged to come and play with some Lego next week to help shape the future of services targeting junior residents of the Augusta-Margaret River shire.
Fundraising project Cancer Cruise will host its first tour of the Margaret River region later this month.
Shire of Augusta-Margaret River councillors have moved special measures to address the region’s housing shortage and the stress experienced by residents finding themselves with nowhere to go.
Final-vote counting in the Upper House is proving a nailbiter which will either give Labor an unprecedented four South West members or send a Legalise Cannabis WA candidate to Parliament House.
The one-way route through Margaret River’s new festival precinct opened as planned on Monday with little fanfare and few vehicles using the detour.
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Ben Harvey
Diggers say they are being pushed out of a northern suburbs RSL by members of the neighbouring Veterans Motorcycle Club — a group on the fringe of bikie culture that associates with outlaw gangs.
After 18 years as a single mother in the city, a chance conversation made Mandy Collinson realise the carefree country kid in her was all but gone. Then she reclaimed herself turning rubbish into art.
Steve Butler
A well-known livestock agent and a livestock buyer charged as part of WA’s biggest alleged cattle rustling bust have been released on $10,000 bail.
Jenne Brammer
A Qantas flight bound for Port Hedland this morning was forced to turn back to Perth soon after take off.
Phil Hickey
The offer applies to new bookings made from today March 29 until September 30, 2021, unless sold out.
Tom Zaunmayr
The creative behind the development of a portable escape room is readying for the product’s launch in Boulder this weekend.
A man in his 20s has been bitten by a shark while spearfishing in waters near Coral Bay.
WA stars Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker and entertainment all-rounder Tim Minchin are both nominated for Australia’s top peer-voted songwriting gong at the 2021 APRA Music Awards.
Simon Collins
The city sweated through an unusually warm March day, with temperatures peaking at 40.7C on Monday.
Anybody got the feeling that West Australians have got a little complacent about COVID-19? Well the news out of Queensland should have been a big wake-up call.
A parachuting instructor from the Perth-based SAS regiment allegedly pushed his finger in the anus of a soldier from the unit's rival, east coast-based Commando Regiment.
A grieving Perth father has led tributes for his three-month-old daughter who died from injuries allegedly inflicted by a 30-year-old man earlier this month.
Sarah Steger
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