Extra time has been sought to give residents the chance to comment on a major sand extraction plan for a rural property near Hamelin Bay.
Warren Hately
Willow Hardy was back to her best in a ripping performance to take out the weekend’s Peel Pro Junior.
A family owned and operated coach business has seen interest in its services skyrocket just days after announcing a new fly-in, fly-out bus service for South West workers.
Holly Prentice
Residents are being encouraged to make submissions to WA’s Environmental Protection Authority as progress on the proposed five-star resort at Gnarabup continues.
More than $1 million worth of Regional Economic Development grants will be heading the way of 10 South West businesses, with four receiving $150,000 each.
Oliver Lane
Australian String Quartet is singing the praises of WA soprano Sara Macliver ahead of ASQ’s 40th season next year, featuring the WA Opera diva in a Margaret River Weekend of Music.
David Cusworth
Brisbane rockers The Butterfly Effect will head to the South West in February as part of a national regional tour celebrating the 21st anniversary of the release of their album Begins Here.
Sean Van Der Wielen
Tickets are expected to sell fast after the first lot of entries were released this week for next year’s Margaret River Ultra Marathon.
A three-year funding extension for the region’s biggest conservation group to keep fighting arum lilies was welcomed by all involved.
Cowaramup residents are being urged to add a dash of colour to their street bins for a good cause.
The director of a company stung with a huge fine for illegal clearing near Scott River has conceded the error, but said bushfire safety was behind the decision.
A FIFO worker who left a father with a fractured skull and brain bleeds from a one-punch attack at a pub south of Perth has been sentenced to more than two years’ imprisonment.
Rebecca Le May
First homebuyers look set to be targeted in the upcoming State election with the Liberal Party promising to lift stamp duty exemptions by $100,000 to win their votes.
Joe Spagnolo
Thousands of WA families can’t get ‘defective pipes’ ripped out of their homes quickly enough as insurers decline to renew policies on properties hit with repeated water bursts.
John Flint
Nicheliving's giving up its building license will relieve abandoned customers, but taxpayers will have to foot the $40 million bill, sparking anger.
Jessica Page
Australia’s biggest fundraiser for kids has broken its record in donations.
Tim Clarke
A driver and her passenger have been killed in a head-on collision on the notorious Indian Ocean Drive north of Perth.
A Perth man is missing in Bali after being swept out to sea by an ‘extreme’ wave while saving a distressed swimmer.
The housing boom continues at pace across Australia — but Perth suburbs are well outstripping the rest of the nation. FIND OUT WHERE THEY ARE
Transforming Henderson into the biggest naval precinct in the southern hemisphere is ‘the most significant Defence offering to WA since Federation’ by Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles.
A navy veteran battling PTSD was left waiting in a bed in the middle of a busy emergency department for at least 48 hours because no mental health beds were available.
A new weather radar in Karratha is providing better visibility of weather systems and less interference on the Bureau of Meteorology’s website and the BOM Weather app.
Madelin Hayes
Detectives have charged a man with grievous bodily harm over an alleged assault where another man was found seriously injured and unconcious in a Derby driveway.
Caleb Runciman
Students from a Karratha school are preaching to the choir when it comes to spreading this year’s Telethon message, Incredible Together.
The Federal and State governments will spend a combined $60 million on a new water treatment plant in Busselton amid increasing supply demands and a need to reduce reliance on coastal bores.
Seven Pilbara projects will share in more than $1 million in funding in the latest round of RED Grants aimed at bolstering the region’s employment, business resilience and economic diversity.
The push to commercialise solid-state batteries for electric vehicles is well underway, but analysts say auto giants could be on the cusp of turning to a different kind of transformative science.
Sam Meredith
Tech companies are increasingly backing in nuclear energy to meet the growing power demands of data centres.
Pippa Stevens
The company formerly known as Facebook appears to have found its footing in virtual and augmented reality through smart glasses.
Salvador Rodriguez and Jonathan Vanian
You might call me a ‘rebel without a cause,’ says Grab co-found Anthony Tan said. But I was on a mission to create something that could be ‘a force for good’.
Ernestine Siu
As the Art Gallery of WA enjoys bumper crowds, director Colin Walker signs on for five more years and unveils plans for a state-of-the-art sibling to the current institution.
Simon Collins
More than two dozen people have been killed on WA’s roads in the less than two months since the State Government’s road safety summit, sparking questions about the effectiveness of the emergency roundtable.
Dylan Caporn
A one-time Rebels bikie who handed back his patch says he was travelling with pepper spray due to ‘tension’ in the gangs last year.
Despite growing cost of living pressures, West Australians dipping into their pockets for Telethon have shown themselves to be even more generous than ever this year.
Police forces in Australia and across the globe want to learn more from WA Police about how they are solving so many cold cases.
With Christmas getting closer, Australia Post has announced the deadline to send mail to far-away loved ones.