Margaret River-based teacher Mark Cummins says colleagues across the region are increasingly facing burn-out from a rising tide of student mental health issues.
Warren Hately
Australia Post has ignored the concerns of residents desperate for mail deliveries to homes in Brookfield and Rapids Landing.
The Opposition has unloaded on the State’s Labor Government and local members including Jane Kelsbie for failing to support the Margaret River region.
The Capes region performed strongly at Surfing WA’s weekend Longboard & Logger State Championships.
Emerging artist Clare Hamilton’s collected works are on display at the Margaret River Library’s Cocoon Gallery until the end of June.
South West petrol prices will continue rising, according to the State’s fuel pricing watchdog, the halving of the fuel excise providing little relief for motorists.
Jacinta Cantatore
A third-quarter blitz has resulted in South Bunbury getting one up on reigning premiers Augusta-Margaret River by more than five goals.
Carly Laden
Images have emerged of a tornado ripping through one small regional locality in Western Australia, demolishing trees in its path.
A 62-year-old man has died after the aircraft he was flying in the State’s South West crashed shortly after take off.
As Australians head to the polls Saturday, the two front-runners for the South West’s Forrest electorate have spoken about how they’re feeling ahead of today’s result.
Councillor and former Shire president Ian Earl will have a chance to rezone land his family owns off Peake Street in Cowaramup.
Police have hosed down fears a tit-for-tat bikie war is brewing in Perth – instead saying that internal squabbles over drug debts could be behind three terrifying armed incidents this week.
Tim Clarke
The head of WA’s biggest teacher training institution has resigned after academics accused senior leaders of pressuring them to change grades so that failing students would pass.
Bethany Hiatt
The McGowan government may intervene to save Activ workshops from closing, saying the sites employing more than 700 people with disability ‘need to stay open’.
Rebecca Le May and Josh Zimmerman
Expectant Carnarvon women are being forced to travel hundreds of kilometres in the late stages of their pregnancies to give birth in Geraldton because of a severe shortage of midwives in regional WA.
Josh Zimmerman
WA has recorded 12,114 new COVID cases and six deaths, but the news comes amid a significant drop in active cases in the 24-hour reporting period.
Miriam Fisher
Bunbury’s youth mayor says the City of Bunbury’s new council policy on climate change adopted at a council meeting recently is ‘a move in the right direction’.
Luke McPherson
One of two miners involved in an attack on a co-worker after a night of drinking at a local pub has been fined $10,000 and ordered to pay $4000 in compensation after the victim spent two days in hospital.
It has been an interesting couple of days.
Rinaldi walked out of the shopping centre, put the tree in the boot of his car and drove away.
A Virgin Australia Regional Airlines flight VA 9275 to West Angeles issued a Mayday 7700 code and has returned to Perth.
Geoffrey Thomas
The COVID-era application could become a one-stop shop for a wide range of government services – including a digital SmartRider, driver’s licence and seniors card.
A Commonwealth-funded $200 million quarantine facility in Perth’s north looms as an expensive white elephant with Mark McGowan admitting he is unsure what to do with it once construction is complete this year.
Nationals frontbencher David Littleproud has come to the defence of Peter Dutton after Mark McGowan unloaded on the new Federal Liberal leader, branding him an ‘extremist’ and not ‘that smart’.
Petr Levkovskiy’s tragic death has rocked WA, with $86,000 raised for the family of the FIFO dad who was fatally stabbed while trying to retrieve an allegedly stolen bicycle from a teenager in Bull Creek.
A 28-year-old man has been blinded in one eye by a potato after he was attacked while riding a scooter.
Angie Raphael
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