A Chinese billionaire is selling his East Pilbara cattle station — just the fourth time in a century the property has been put up for sale — to focus on his WA wine business.
Jenne Brammer
Hot on the heels of being named WA’s top tourist destination by a leading travel website, Exmouth has declared it is ready for the arrival of Hollywood superstar Eric Bana.
Ben O'Shea
With WA’s coastline enduring a marine heatwave event, marine scientists have raised concerns about coral bleaching events along the Coral Coast.
Liam Beatty
After her Olympic stint she moved to Perth with plans to retire but a chance encounter with a coach at her local swimming pool reinvigorated her love for the game and encouraged her to keep playing
Danielle Raffaele
The 11-day journey saw the vessel arrive in Dampier last week and marked the first freight shipment to arrive in Dampier since Sea Swift announced the service in December.
Alexander Scott
The program, which rolled out in December last year, prevents problem drinkers from buying take-away alcohol by requesting all liquor store patrons show photo ID when making grog purchases.
The company told the Banjima people of a rockfall at the site in January, but it is not yet known if mining activity is to blame for the disturbance.
Stuart McKinnon
Held in Karijini National Park, this year’s event will take place from April 6-10 and feature an array of events, starting with a welcome to Banjima country
Opposition leader Zak Kirkup says Labor has “dudded” the people of the Pilbara after announcing how his party’s New Energy Jobs Plan will diversify the region’s economy with green steel.
The mining giant has joined rival BHP in showering its shareholders with a bumper dividend which has been underpinned by its sprawling Pilbara iron ore operations.
Featuring the talents of emerging Pilbara artists, the exhibition showcased themes of identity, social equality and the environment.
A local charity is calling for stronger management of the Gnaraloo coastline after expressing concerns the opening of an unsealed track and an increase in uncontrolled tourism are threatening turtles.
Caitlyn Watts
The three offences, which involved the supply of 2.75g of the drug, spanned two months from March 2018 when Hayter lived in South Hedland
A young family feared they were one day from ‘disaster’ after their three-week-old baby was prescribed nearly 10 times the recommended dosage of antibiotics at Karratha Health Campus.
Top Fortescue executive Greg Lilleyman has been caught up in the fallout from a massive cost blowout at Iron Bridge, with CEO Elizabeth Gaines saying the company had “lost focus”.
Despite a disappointing sixth over with no runs, Kev Johnston and partner Chris Briody batted at a steady pace before Johnston was dismissed with the score on 1-38.
The initiative, which started in 2020 but was thwarted by COVID-19 restrictions, is off to a good start with a record number of young girls participating.
Flights to the islands from Perth are run twice a week by Virgin Australia and currently land at Learmonth airport, 37kms from Exmouth, for refuelling
Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue is remaining tight-lipped amid growing fears of a big blowout in costs and reports senior project leaders have departed the company.
Tragic new details of the murder of a young mother-of-two in Newman, whose lifeless body was taken to hospital in a wheelie bin, have been revealed for the first time.
Phil Hickey
Jaedey Evans and Makinley Minchin recently made the senior Peel Thunder WAFLW squad for the 2021 season
Carnarvon District Court heard MacPherson failed to brake for a stray bull on the 110kmh Tom Price-Paraburdoo road, causing the animal to crash over the bonnet and smash the windscreen of his sedan
Tom Zaunmayr
Locals Sienna Bennett, 13, Brooklyn Bennett, 10, Josonah Levi, 7, Ofa Cocker, 10 and Lilly Leonard, 9, travelled south for the tournament and each took home medals for their efforts.
Under the plan ablution facilities will be installed at 10 locations across key freight routes, near Port Hedland, Exmouth, Marble Bar, Wubin, Northam and Bunbury at a cost of more than $2 million.
Sam Jones
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