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  1. Community Derby Civic Centre upgrades under way

  2. SportBlue Water Youth Sports Carnival takes over Ardyaloon

  3. Drop in the OceanPremiumBig cattle players call for Fitzroy-Derby water rethink

  4. Environment Bardi Jawi Gaarra Marine Park zoning plan enforced

  5. Without A PaddlePremiumWater coalition urges for river plan reconsideration

The DNTL Code team.

HealthBroome’s DNTL Code celebrates new clinical space

A major step forward for health care in Broome was celebrated over the weekend as Broome’s DNTL Code officially marked the opening of its new state-of-the-art clinic on July 13.

Cain Andrews

Kimberley Colts team.

Football Kimberley Colts’ Country Championships campaign

The Kimberley Colts team has secured a third-place finish from the WA Country Football Championships after mounting a competitive campaign. 

Cain Andrews

Invasive weed gamba grass.

Environment Broome residents urged to help spot invasive gamba grass

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development urges the Broome community and its visitors to keep a lookout and report the invasive weed gamba grass.

Phoebe Solon

Cockatoo Island.

MiningCommentsPremiumIron ore miner declares insolvency

The Hong Kong company miner on Cockatoo Island off the Kimberley has collapsed into administration, with taxpayers owed money.

Adrian Rauso

Broome Billfish Charters Captain Ash Pittard.

Fishing Broome Billfish Charters Captain receives prestigious award

Broome Billfish Charters skipper Ash Pittard has put WA’s North West on the global angling map after being named the top overall release captain worldwide for 2025 by the prestigious Billfish Foundation.

Cain Andrews

Three Kimberley shires will share more than $500,000 in WA Government funding to help reduce bushfires.

Bushfire season Kimberley shires receive funding to help stop bushfires

Three Kimberley shires will share more than $500,000 of State Government funding for mitigation activities to help reduce bushfires in the region. 

Cain Andrews

Upgrades to Old Broome Road have been completed early with both lanes of traffic reopening to the public on July 12. 

Upgrades completeOld Broome Road reopened ahead of schedule

Upgrades to Old Broome Road have been completed early with both lanes of traffic reopening to the public on July 12. 

Shinju Matsuri’s programing manager Luna Morishige and Bart Pigram. 

Shinju MatsuriShinju Matsuri to celebrate Broome’s multicultural spirit

Broome’s biggest annual celebration is set to return next month, with Shinju Matsuri promising 17 days of events that showcase the town’s multicultural heritage, local talent and community.

Environs Kimberley Art Auction to take place at Broome Civic Centre on July 25

Arts Kimberley artists to take centre stage at annual art auction

The annual Environs Kimberley Art Auction raise funds for artists, remote art centres and conservation work across the region will take place on July 25 at Broome Civic Centre

Kimberley MLA Divina D'Anna, Shire of Derby/West Kimberley project delivery manager Steve Ross and president Peter McCumstie.

Community Derby Civic Centre upgrades under way

A major face-lift is officially under way at the Derby Civic Centre.

Cain Andrews

Broome’s inaugural Fan Festival will run from July 14 to 19, a vibrant new cultural initiative led by renowned West Australian artist Leon Pericles AM.

Arts Broome gets double Pericles

One of Australia’s most celebrated artists, Leon Pericles AM returns to the Kimberley with a double celebration of place, launching both his latest solo exhibition and Broome’s inaugural Fan Festival.

Phoebe Solon

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A major disturbance involving multiple inmates has unfolded at WA’s maximum security prison.

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Officer injured during riot at WA’s maximum security prison

A major disturbance involving multiple inmates has unfolded at WA’s maximum security prison with reports of widespread damage to cells and ‘considerable’ flooding.

Charlton Hart and Caleb Runciman

Cloverdale crash

Disaster and EmergencyVideoPremium‘Small boy lying face down’: Horrific details of fatal crash

Cloverdale residents have recounted the horror and distressing screams that followed a little boy being fatally struck on Tuesday while crossing a suburban street.

Brooke Rolfe

A Perth man who died in a Balinese detention centre reportedly owed tens of thousands of dollars to more than a dozen furious customers he ripped off through his Indonesian car restoration company. 

WA NewsVideoPremiumPerth mechanic found dead in Bali conned man out of $76,000

A Perth man who died in a Balinese detention centre reportedly owed tens of thousands of dollars to more than a dozen furious customers he ripped off through his Indonesian car restoration company. 

Jessica Evensen

Brad Gandy Australian Workers Union WA State Secretary.

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‘I won’t listen to Cook’: Union leader striking against BHP

The senior Labor figure spearheading historic strikes against BHP has told Premier Roger Cook and any other political colleagues hoping for an end to the militant industrial action to get stuffed.

Adrian Rauso and Oliver Lane

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Cockatoo Island.

MiningCommentsPremiumIron ore miner declares insolvency

The Hong Kong company miner on Cockatoo Island off the Kimberley has collapsed into administration, with taxpayers owed money.

Adrian Rauso

A Perth man who died in a Balinese detention centre reportedly owed tens of thousands of dollars to more than a dozen furious customers he ripped off through his Indonesian car restoration company. 

WA NewsVideoPremiumPerth mechanic found dead in Bali conned man out of $76,000

A Perth man who died in a Balinese detention centre reportedly owed tens of thousands of dollars to more than a dozen furious customers he ripped off through his Indonesian car restoration company. 

Jessica Evensen

In a remarkable twist of fate, the two found one another on a red dusty road near Beacon, 12 days after the backpacker went missing.

WA NewsCommentsCommentsHow saving backpacker Carolina changed WA farmer’s life

New details reveal how a local livestock farmer accidentally stumbled across a German backpacker 12 days after she went missing, triggering an international search and rescue mission.

Dr Christian Jack Joseph, 26, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on Sunday.

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PremiumFreo death accused showed jiu-jitsu choke moves in video

The friend group of a Perth doctor charged over an alleged choke-hold death after an altercation in Fremantle on Saturday morning say they have been left completely stunned after he was thrown behind bars. 

Christian Jack Joseph, 26, is accused of killing a 63-year-old man who was found unresponsive on a Fremantle street in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Courts and CrimeVideoPremiumPremiumYoung Perth doctor accused of killing man in Fremantle

A young doctor has been charged with manslaughter after a 63-year-old was found unresponsive on a Fremantle street in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder administration building.

Rates PremiumLower residential rate hike leads to mining camp relief

A City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder councillor’s push to provide rates relief to residents this financial year has inadvertently lowered the rates hike to mining camps in the city.

Tegan Guthrie

Shire of Coolgardie president Paul Wilcox.

Coolgardie development More developments on horizon for Coolgardie

Shire of Coolgardie president Paul Wilcox says it is encouraging to see interest in businesses and groups investing in the community, with three development applications approved at a recent council meeting.

Tegan Guthrie

Over the past 20 years, agricultural land in Australia jumped by more than 250 per cent, growth driven by strong livestock prices, favourable weather, low interest rates and land scarcity.

Who gets the farm?PremiumSuccession disputes tearing rural families apart

Farm succession disputes are rising in WA as land valuations surge and traditional farming succession becomes a thing of the past.

Melissa Pedelty

The Shire of Coolgardie will make additional transfers to its aged care unit reserve to correct its audit finding from 2024-25

Audit finding corrected Shire reserve transfer corrects audit finding from 2024-25

The Shire of Coolgardie has agreed to transfer an additional $72,000 to a reserve for maintenance of aged care units to correct an audit finding.

Jim Webb and Jeannie Poletti.

EmergencyCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumVolunteer ambo, off-duty nurse saves her grandfather’s life

Geraldton’s own Jeannie Poletti never expected to help save the life of someone she knew, let alone her own grandfather, when she started her career as a nurse and St John WA volunteer ambulance officer.

The retail giant has challenged the ACCC, lodging an application with the Australian Competition Tribunal.

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Coles is seeking a review of the Australian competition watchdog’s decision to block its proposal for a new supermarket and liquor store in Kalgoorlie.

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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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A young man has died in a horror crash in the Wheatbelt. 

Disaster and EmergencyPremiumDriver killed after 4WD flips in horror crash in Wheatbelt

A young man has died in a rollover near Toodyay.

Brooke Rolfe

The number of drivers flogging it on Perth freeways has soared.

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Fines on Perth freeways surge 675 per cent in crackdown

The number of selfish and idiotic drivers caught speeding on Perth freeways has soared by nearly 700 per cent, as the State Government continues to expand its number of speed cameras on WA roads. 

Jessica Evensen

William Maahes Vigersune leaves Albany Magistrates Court after learning his fate.

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PremiumMan learns fate for nightclub coward punch against teenager

A man who threw the ‘very definition’ of a coward’s punch at a teenager and knocked him unconscious outside a nightclub before goading witnesses, has learned his fate for the serious attack.

Perth cyber-safety expert Paul Litherland.

CrimeCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumAlarming rise in sextortion scams targeting Perth teens

A Perth cyber-safety expert says education remains the key to halting an alarming rise in boys and young men being blackmailed by criminals who coerce them into sharing intimate sexual images.

state politicsCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumPanicked Labor ramps up One Nation battle for ‘safe’ seat

Roger Cook and Basil Zempilas were forced to fend off questions about the threat of One Nation as they hit the campaign trail in Secret Harbour on Sunday.

Premier Roger Cook has labelled a weeks long water issue at social housing complex in Perth that left residents resorting to drinking from a bird bath as merely ‘inconvenient’.

WA NewsCommentsPremiumPremier’s wild message to WA residents living without water

Premier Roger Cook has labelled it ‘inconvenient’ that residents in a social housing complex in Perth’s south have resorted to drinking from bird baths due to the building’s meek water supply. 

Brooke Rolfe