Accommodation providers across the Margaret River region are reporting a steady drop in bookings at the same time the Capes’ key tourism body foreshadows challenges ahead.
Warren Hately
Justin Fris
One of the region’s most prominent winemakers has received the ultimate award, the Order of Australia medal, for her services to the industry.
Artists in the South West and Great Southern regions are being encouraged to take up an exciting opportunity to develop their projects in an idyllic retreat setting.
Carly Laden
Mambo lovers will have the time of their lives next Friday, June 30, when WA’s Youth Jazz Orchestra set up at the Margaret River Heart.
Research has found it could take home owners in the Great Southern coastal town up to 61 years to pay off their homes based on the region’s median house price of $835,407 and median family income levels
Raquel de Brito
A look at what went down during round 11 of the 2023 South West Netball Football League season.
Margaret River audiences will be left with food for thought when an insightful piece of theatre — disguised as a fun and rowdy pub quiz — comes to town next week.
Breanna Redhead
Cowaramup mother Lisa Bell says she won’t give up her fight to have the township’s traffic woes fixed.
“We will be pretty clear on what it will take to win the game.”
Two more well-respected members of the Margaret River arts community were also honoured in the King’s Birthday list.
West Coast defender Tom Barrass has attracted rival interest despite a long-term deal. Paul Hasleby explains why losing a star player like Barrass isn’t disastrous for clubs - especially the Eagles.
Paul Hasleby
The first part of The West Australian’s special series on WA’s top schools can be revealed, with two public high schools among the five best in the State for mathematics. SEE THE FULL LIST HERE
Bethany Hiatt
ABC bosses accused by own of ‘thumbing their nose’ at WA as it’s revealed ABC Perth is only allowed to run ‘five WA stories a day’.
Andrei Harmsworth
A former inmate at Hakea Prison has recalled the shocking moment a guard allegedly dragged him off a chair, pressed his face against the floor and repeatedly punched the back of his head until he passed out.
Sarah Steger
Police are investigating after a man died at Perth underground train station overnight.
Jonathon Nolan
A woman has been charged after allegedly stabbing an elderly man in Westminster on Saturday.
Anneke De Boer and Emily Moulton
Police are searching for a man who allegedly assaulted a young woman outside a suburban supermarket.
It is the second police pursuit in two days which has ended in a serious crash.
WA workers will be $19 worse off than their counterparts around the country following the latest State Minimum Wage revision by the Industrial Relations Commission.
Almost nothing will change for mining and pastoral workers, with the new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act only set to make processes more open, says WA Labor MLC Kyle McGinn.
Amber Lilley
The State Government attempted to clarify Aboriginal cultural heritage laws at a meeting in Kalgoorlie-Boulder on Friday as concerns continued to be raised two weeks out from the Act’s implementation.
Elena Morabito
The organisation holding native title in the Esperance region says it shares concerns about the “workability” of the new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021.
A 20-year-old woman who allegedly slashed a man with a knife while defending her father during a fight at a home in Albany on Thursday has been granted bail.
A man has admitted to indecently dealing with a 12-year-old girl at the derelict Batavia Motor Inne.
A woman has faced a Kalgoorlie court over the manslaughter of a 34-year-old woman in Leonora after an earlier charge was upgraded.
Artificial intelligence may lead to human extinction and reducing the risks associated with the technology should be a global priority, industry experts and tech leaders stated in an open letter.
Sheila Chiang
Housing markets are undergoing a fundamental shift because of higher mortgage rates. Against this backdrop, some — including a Big Short investor — fear the real estate sector is overlooking a systemic issue.
Sam Meredith
Artificial intelligence has taken the investing world by storm. But it’s also had its detractors, and some analysts have warned of the risks of investing in AI. Should you jump on the trend or stay sceptical?
Weizhen Tan
Infrastructure legislation and the Inflation Reduction Act are resulting in heavy industry investment levels that defy a typical economic downturn.
Eric Rosenbaum
Footage has emerged of as many as 30 derailed wagons from a Rio Tinto train that left the tracks in WA’s Pilbara.
Alex Di Rosso
The man arrested and charged with the murder of Patrik Weiss, whose body was found in suspicious circumstances at his Lockridge home on Monday, has been revealed.
Anneke De Boer, Shannon Hampton and Jonathon Nolan
A heritage-listed winery in Perth’s northern suburbs will undergo a multi-million dollar conversion into an eatery as part of a broader revamp of a local park.
Major crash detectives are investigating a fatal crash after a motorcycle collided with a bus in Perth’s eastern suburbs Saturday.
Historic new nurse-to-patient ratios will begin at Perth Children’s Hospital on July 17 — two years after the tragic death of seven-year-old Aishwarya Aswath.
Joe Spagnolo
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