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A Mt Barker man has been sentenced for possessing cannabis with intent to sell and supply.

courts & justice PremiumNo jail for Mt Barker man found with 2kg weed in his roof

A 70-year-old man who was caught with a 2kg stash of cannabis in the ceiling of his Mt Barker home has avoided an immediate prison sentence.

Melissa Sheil

Redbacks’ director Nathan Giglia, ABA president Tim Turnbull, Keanu Weeden, Clint Smith of Albany McDonalds, Perry Lakes Hawks’ director Annette Nobensi and Fabian Ross, CEO of Basketball WA with a cheque for Ronald McDonald House.

Checking inPremiumAlbany has appetite for top-flight says Redbacks’ director

Perth Redbacks are full square behind Albany hosting an NBL1 West fixture again next season – but would love to see the city competing in the league in their own right.

Claire Middleton

Bridgetown’s Kalani Brooks will learn his football fate at a tribunal hearing on Wednesday night after leaping off the ground to strike Kojonup player Kyle Smith during their match on Sunday. 

Manjimup-Bridgetown TimesVideoPremiumCop warns charges not off table for coward punch footballer

WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch has condemned the coward punch that left a country footballer concussed, declaring players are ‘not immune’ from criminal consequences for violence on the field.

Jack Penniment

Country footy incident

Great Southern HeraldVideoPremiumWATCH: Ex-Eagles WAFL player coward punches opponent

A former West Coast WAFL player is facing a lengthy suspension after a coward-punching an opponent in an ‘ugly’ off-the-ball incident that marred a Lower South West Football League game on Sunday. 

Jack Penniment and Amy Towers

Albany's Hollee Jackman attepts to spoil Katanning's Joshqiuwa Wynne.

Netball carnivalPremiumAlbany dominates regional netball championships over weekend

Albany emerged as the region’s dominant force at the Great Southern Regional Netball Championships at the weekend, with hundreds of players travelling to Albany for the competition.

Amy Towers

A Katanning man has been jailed for five offences.

courtsPremiumAxe attack and assault on mum earn Katanning man jail time

A Katanning man who attacked his neighbours’ front door with an axe, assaulted his elderly mother, and threatened police with a table frame until they tasered him has been sentenced. 

Melissa Sheil

A man has entered pleas after two cars collided at the intersection of Great Southern Highway and Robinson Road.

courtsPremiumPremiumGuilty pleas to careless driving in fatal Woodanilling crash

A Perth man whose careless driving resulted in a horror crash that killed a 12-year-old girl in Woodanilling last September has pleaded guilty to downgraded charges. 

Bridgetown’s Kalani Brooks will learn his football fate at a tribunal hearing on Wednesday night after leaping off the ground to strike Kojonup player Kyle Smith during their match on Sunday. 

Manjimup-Bridgetown TimesVideoPremiumPremiumCop warns charges not off table for coward punch footballer

WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch has condemned the coward punch that left a country footballer concussed, declaring players are ‘not immune’ from criminal consequences for violence on the field.

Denmark-Walpole's Brendan Girak wraps up Albany's Bryce Blaszkow.

gsfl 2026PremiumPremiumMagpies left reeling after Sharks’ shock final term comeback

In arguably the best game of the season so far, Albany has escaped with a thrilling 10-point win after outlasting Denmark-Walpole in a pulsating final few minutes at McLean Park on Saturday. 

Redbacks’ director Nathan Giglia, ABA president Tim Turnbull, Keanu Weeden, Clint Smith of Albany McDonalds, Perry Lakes Hawks’ director Annette Nobensi and Fabian Ross, CEO of Basketball WA with a cheque for Ronald McDonald House.

Checking inPremiumAlbany has appetite for top-flight says Redbacks’ director

Perth Redbacks are full square behind Albany hosting an NBL1 West fixture again next season – but would love to see the city competing in the league in their own right.

Claire Middleton

WO Brad Doyle started his appointment as the 13th Regimental Sgt-Major on July 8.

Australian ArmyPremiumBrad Doyle rises to Australian Army senior officer position

An Albany man who first discovered his passion for military service as a teenager has risen to one of the Australian Army’s most senior enlisted positions. 

Amy Towers

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Country footy incident

Great Southern HeraldVideoPremiumWATCH: Ex-Eagles WAFL player coward punches opponent

A former West Coast WAFL player is facing a lengthy suspension after a coward-punching an opponent in an ‘ugly’ off-the-ball incident that marred a Lower South West Football League game on Sunday. 

Jack Penniment and Amy Towers

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Perth ISIS doctor’s family ties to top terror group militant

The Perth doctor who joined Islamic State 10 years ago and was recently discovered alive in a Baghdad prison had close ties with a key leader of the terrorist group in Syria who remains on the run.

Rhianna Mitchell

The raunchy pantomime spin on the classic folklore tale has taken the Regal Theatre by storm.

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Throbbin Wood: Robin Hood gets dirty makeover in new panto

From golden phalluses, to panty bunting, and even a massive frog — the hilarious new show by Zealous Productions has taken Perth by storm.

Tegwen Bescoby

New figures show anyone who bought a property using the Commonwealth’s low deposit scheme could end up with the bleak prospect of negative equity as WA’s red-hot market cools.

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First-homebuyers face nightmare as market cools off

New figures show anyone who bought a property using the Commonwealth’s low deposit scheme could end up with the bleak prospect of negative equity as WA’s red-hot market cools.

Joe Spagnolo

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Australia’s medicine regulator has issued a safety warning over popular weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Saxenda.

Taylor Renouf

Fremantle are premiership favourites

AFLCommentsPremiumAFL admits it can’t stop airlines grand final price gouging

AFL CEO Andrew Dillon has expressed his frustration with the price gouging Fremantle fans are set to face from airlines if the Dockers make the grand final.

Craig O'Donoghue

There's been no shortage of memorable moments through the first 62 western derby clashes.

AFLCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumThe A-to-Z of Western Derbies

F is for F-bomb. J is for Judd booing. And M is for McPharlin’s grab. Each letter sparks a different derby memory as we take a look back across more than three decades of WA footy's cross-town rivalry.

Amber Millar, 12, was killed in the second crash along with Troy Thomas.

AustraliaPremiumPremium‘Reckless’: Pilot exposed after WA fatal chopper crash

The WA tourism stalwart was killed along with 12-year-old Amber Millar when a helicopter he was flying crashed immediately after take-off from an industrial site in Broome.

The scene of the crash and blaze on North West Coastal Highway.

Courts & JusticePremiumPremiumTeen charged over fatal White Peak crash still in hospital

A 19-year-old man charged with murder and attempted murder over the fatal White Peak crash at the end of June remains in a serious condition in a Perth hospital.

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New research from WFI Insurance shows only a quarter of Australian farmers are considering cyber insurance as a future need, compared with 70 per cent of the broader business population.

cybersecurityPremiumFarmers are vulnerable to cyberthreats, says new study

Experts are warning Australia’s agriculture industry to be prepared for digital threats as cyberattacks on Australia’s food and agriculture sector become increasingly common.

Melissa Pedelty

The $5m farm system productivity program is part of the Federal Government’s $140 million transition assistance package to help those affected by the end of live sheep exports.

live export banPremiumWA sheep industry supported by new $2.5m Government program

A new $2.5 million program designed to help sheep farmers through the phase-out of live sheep exports by sea was released by the Australian Government on Wednesday.

Melissa Pedelty

The Grains Industry Association of WA’s 2026 barley rationalisation plan — called the WA Malt Barley Variety Receival Recommendations — was released at the GIWA Barley Forum on Tuesday.

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WA’s barley market will be dominated by one variety in the next two years according to a recent report, prompting concerns for the future of the State’s export market.

Melissa Pedelty

Two people have died and another has been critically injured in a horror head-on crash on North West Coastal Highway near Karratha.

Disaster and EmergencyPremiumPremiumTwo dead in fiery head-on crash in WA’s north

Two people have died and another has been critically injured in a horror head-on crash on North West Coastal Highway near Karratha.

RSPCA WA are requesting CCTV and dashcam footage to assist with investigations. RSPCA WA

WA NewsPremiumPremiumFears raised after kangaroo deaths near Albany

Concerns have been raised that kangaroos are being ‘deliberately targeted’ after a string of deaths. WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT

Two men have lost their lives in separate crashes on regional WA roads just minutes apart.

Disaster and EmergencyPremiumPremiumTwo men killed in road tragedies just minutes apart

Two men have lost their lives in separate crashes on regional WA roads just minutes apart.

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Android figures at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, US.

TechnologyCommentsPremiumGoogle loses fight on record $6.8 billion antitrust fine

Europe’s top court has dismissed the tech giant’s appeals against the 2018 EU ruling.

Arjun Kharpal

Kevin Warsh, chairman of the US Federal Reserve. Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged and were split over whether they expect to raise rates this year.

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Warsh’s taskforces are the key to understanding the new Fed

Fed chair Kevin Warsh stuck to his long-stated belief in his first press conference on Wednesday that ‘inflation is a choice.’

Matt Peterson

Ships anchored on May 16, 2026 in the Strait of Hormuz near Larak Island, Iran.

EnergyCommentsPremiumCrude oil tumbles after Trump says Strait of Hormuz to open

Tanker traffic plunged in early March due to Iranian attacks, causing the biggest oil supply disruption in history.

Spencer Kimball

Cathie Wood, chief executive officer of Ark Investment Management LLC.

CNBC newsCommentsPremiumInvestors who took a chance on SpaceX now reap the rewards

For nearly two decades, some of the world’s most prominent investors quietly accumulated stakes in SpaceX while the rocket maker remained largely off-limits to the public markets.

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Jack Caldbeck is a 26yo bricklayer from the UK working on a site in Fremantle.

HousingCommentsPremiumPerth’s trade shortage worst in Australia despite high wages

If you think it’s hard getting a tradie, you are not imagining it.

Kim Macdonald

13 year old Millie Brady is nominated for the WA Eureka Prize.

ScienceCommentsPremiumWA teen turtle tracker up for leading science prize

Finalists in the running for a share of the $200,000 Eureka Prizes pool this year include a First Nations astrophysicist going viral online and a project 3D-printing arteries to predict the risk of stroke.

Ben O'Shea

Kate Hedley leaves the David Malcolm Justice Centre during day 7 the Poland defamation case.

Courts & JusticePremiumPremium‘Not sorry’: Trial hears former editor stands by reporting

One of two journalists embroiled in a protracted defamation suit brought by property developer Greg Poland has stood by her reporting, insisting it was fair and accurate.

Officers from road policing investigations issued a traffic infringement to a 43-year-old Ascot man after vision of the act, captured on Thursday in Manning, led WA’s top traffic cop to call out the ‘concerning’ behaviour. 

CrimeVideoPremiumPremiumMan fined after horror weekend of crashes on WA’s roads

Police have fined a driver who was caught with a child sitting in the rear tray of a moving ute in suburban Perth, after a horror 28-hour period on WA roads that killed six people. 

An elderly woman has died after crashing her car into a roundabout south of Mandurah as the State’s appalling number of road deaths continues to climb. 

WA NewsPremiumPremiumWoman dies in roundabout crash as WA road toll spikes

An elderly woman has died in a Lake Clifton roundabout crash, becoming the latest fatality in a catastrophic weekend on WA roads.

A WA couple has proved that beginner’s luck is definitely real — with the pair scoring a massive $2.2 million jackpot from their first ever Lotto ticket. 

LottoCommentsBeginner’s luck! WA couple wins big during first ever Lotto

A WA couple has proved that beginner’s luck is definitely real — with the pair scoring a massive $2.2 million jackpot from their first ever Lotto ticket. 

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