New Shire of Augusta-Margaret River chief executive Andrea Selvey took up the reins this week just as the council prepares to finalise the local government’s annual budget.
Warren Hately
Margaret River’s Jack Robinson says he’s pumped to represent the country at next week’s Paris Olympics surfing events in Tahiti.
Major efforts are afoot to help preserve an endangered amphibian which calls the Margaret River area home.
Warren Hately and Craig Duncan
New figures show one regional WA council underspent by almost $500,000 on staff but ignored locals’ pleas for a rate cut.
Three local wineries have come up trumps after the esteemed International Wine and Spirit Competition visited the Margaret River region last month.
All emergency alerts in Western Australia will now be done using the Australian Warning System after the State officially adopted it on Monday.
Sean Van Der Wielen
The final six State surfing champions have been crowned for 2024, with the Capes region boasting strong representation.
The Margaret River community is rallying to help a family whose daughter has been struck down by an incredibly rare disease.
The long wait for medical appointments is showing no signs of easing as residents are forced to keep enduring lengthy waits amid a lack of health workers in the State’s South West.
Australia’s workplace watchdog is trying to revoke a right-of-entry permit granted to Edmond ‘Monty’ Margjini who a police prosecutor alleges was a standover man for bikies.
Ben Harvey
You’ve probably seen their business ads on TV and heard them on the radio, but customers say this big business has left them thousands of dollars out of pocket.
Rachel Fenner
The Boyup Brook Golf Club will be hosting the AgLime State Sand Greens Championship next month with preparations underway for the tournament.
Daniel Hocking
An ex-Victorian policeman embarking on his own investigation into two missing people claims there are multiple “missed investigative” opportunities.
Anjelica Smilovitis
A colossal internet failure disrupted flights, trains, medical services and media outlets across the world on Friday.
Bethany Hiatt
Fremantle star Nat Fyfe is excited about what could happen this season and has revealed he’s noticing things during 2024 which bring back reminders of why he team was successful in 2013
Craig O'Donoghue
A man who survived a shark attack at Trigg Beach on Wednesday says being bitten by the predator felt like a ‘clamp of razor blades going into his leg’.
A relatively unknown suburb has risen to the top of the ranks in Perth’s property market with house prices in the area increasing by an extraordinary sum.
UPDATE: Fremantle football manager Joe Brierty says a debacle where players had to urinate in a sink on a flight home from Launceston was “not appropriate” and revealed the AFL is investigating the incident.
“A young man purchased this railway ticket with every expectation he was going off to war, (but) he bought a return ticket and he thought he was coming home.”
Rebecca Parish
Tom Price Coles, the only major grocery store in a 275km radius of the town, was sold for $8 million earlier this month, marking the first stand-alone supermarket sold in WA in five years.
Cain Andrews and Kim Macdonald
It’s yellow and has been synonymous with Geraldton for decades but has not been seen on its foreshore for years. However, it is about to brighten up the Mid West city once again.
Anna Cox
A Yuna growing group is providing a gateway for graduate agronomists to participate in field trials and build connections in the agricultural industry.
Busselton residents got a good laugh when a member of a community Facebook page raised the alert about a chicken on the loose.
Confusion has reigned supreme after the Busselton City council passed a motion after what appeared to be a misunderstanding of what the motion itself involved.
The super-rich have a very different mindset toward investing than the average person. Here’s how they divide their investments between asset classes ...
Amala Balakrishner
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has expressed concern that holding interest rates too high for too long could jeopardise economic growth.
Jeff Cox
The rise of retailer Shein already has Amazon on alert, but its plans of selling proprietary supply-chain technology and services to companies around the world has attracted attention from another corner.
Lori Ann LaRocco
Higher payroll and other expenses are eating into airline profits despite strong travel demand.
Leslie Josephs
A 24-year-old man has been charged after allegedly using a baseball bat to seriously assault a man in Perth’s northern suburbs.
Morgan de Smidt
Many people are still struggling after a global IT outage left airlines, banks and businesses scrambling.
Clareese Packer
A former childcare worker in Perth’s north has been found guilty of five counts of assaulting children after an epic trial and a long wait for the verdict.
Deep Singh, a staffer to Cowan MP and Labor Minister Dr Anne Aly, has been preselected third on Labor’s Senate ticket.
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam has demanded the State scrap a policy that gave construction workers on some State projects massive pay increases.
A Perth family is mourning after a new dad passed away following a tough battle with cancer.
Caitlin Vinci
