The Great Southern’s business community had much to celebrate on Saturday with 14 business awards bestowed on the region’s best.
Eliza Kavanagh
Olivia Ford
Sheep farmers will get an extra $32.7 million to help them transition through to live exports ban as the new Agriculture Minister insists she has been listening to the sector and the WA Government.
Katina Curtis
The State Government’s initiative to decrease homelessness and help vulnerable families in the Great Southern has received a significant boost with 13 new social houses in Katanning.
Hannah Whitehead
Farm-to-plate meat producers in the State’s south will band together to form a co-op in the face of a Bunbury abattoir’s decision to stop animal processing for small producers.
Georgia Campion
Barbeque experts will descend on a Wheatbelt town this month to raise money to kickstart a men’s refuge project in the shire.
Years of low rainfall are likely to mean a long and intense bushfire season ahead, but the vast majority of West Australians living in bushfire-prone areas are unprepared.
Jake Dietsch
WA farmland has hit the second-highest half-yearly value in the last 29 years, jumping by 24.7 per cent from 12 months ago.
Tambellup-raised Hockeyroos star Penny Squibb will captain the Perth Thundersticks women’s team for the 2024 Hockey One season.
Thousands descended on Narrogin to celebrate the agricultural show’s 120th year with music, rides and food.
Artwork from inside the Great Southern’s maximum-security prison has splashed the walls of the Vancouver Arts Centre depicting scenery and tales from the regions.
A Gnowangerup man has been jailed for a night of terror where he wielded a 40cm machete and a baseball bat, leaving his victim with a bloodnose and damaging the State Emergency Services building.
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
A Perth man is missing in Bali after being swept out to sea by an ‘extreme’ wave while saving a distressed swimmer.
Taylor Renouf
The housing boom continues at pace across Australia — but Perth suburbs are well outstripping the rest of the nation. FIND OUT WHERE THEY ARE
Troy de Ruyter
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.
Nine has swung the axe on 6PR, dumping programs hosted by journalist Julie-Anne Sprague and popular presenter Tod Johnston.
A Mid West mother will be forced to drive 300km a day — or up to 20 hours a week — in order to take her children to and from school next year after her youngest son’s bus route was axed.
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.
Sean Van Der Wielen
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.
Cain Andrews
With shoplifting and antisocial behaviour on the rise as warm weather approaches, Geraldton police have welcomed the assistance of two four-legged officers this week.
Jessica Moroney
E-scooters will remain in Busselton and Dunsborough after councillors made a “tough decision” to keep them despite community concerns.
A Geraldton bank has announced it will shut its doors next year, just weeks after Bankwest closed its doors for the final time.
The City of Cockburn won’t spend any more money on the redevelopment of a basketball centre until State and Federal governments have committed to funding.
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
Economic stimulus in China could also be a shot in the arm for Nike and Starbucks, two major brands trying to orchestrate their own turnarounds.
Jesse Pound
Joker: Folie a Deux stumbled to just $US40 million ($58.7m) in US domestic ticket sales during its opening weekend, a far cry from the $US96.2m its predecessor brought in during its debut in 2019.
Sarah Whitten
A strike by Israel against Iran could raise fears of a disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and add a significant price risk premium.
Spencer Kimball
A motorcyclist is recovering from serious injuries after an alleged drink driver — who was behind the wheel of a Ford Falcon — smashed into him.
Caleb Runciman
A driver is on the run after fleeing the scene of a pursuit that came to a crashing end on Thursday night.
Cruising has delivered a record economic boom for WA over the last financial year, with almost 300 ships bringing more than 161,000 visitors to the State’s ports.
Aged care centres in regional WA are running at a loss and face closure without investment to help them keep up with lucrative mining wages, a Senate committee in Perth is set to hear on Friday.
She has only half a functioning heart, but Florence Shanks’ indomitable spirit to beat the odds and live her best life is a story to melt a million hearts.
Despite his full-time gig as mayor of Cambridge, former lawyer Gary Mack is revisiting his roots after becoming president of the Law Society of Western Australia.
Harriet Flinn