A new heavy equipment maintenance centre has opened in Broome, aiming to provide faster mechanical and electrical repairs for businesses and operators across the Kimberley.
Phoebe Solon
Broome’s Roebuck Bay Hotel has been recognised across 15 categories in the 2026 AHA WA Hospitality Awards for Excellence, making it the most nominated venue among this year’s state finalists.
Street football has once again proved popular at Broome’s Cable Beach Youth Precinct, with locals and visitors embracing the fast-paced and inclusive format on September 14.
Plans are under way to eradicate invasive Pacific rats from Adele Island, a remote nature reserve off the north-west Kimberley coast, to protect vital breeding habitats for vulnerable boobies and frigatebirds.
Young insurance brokers travelled to Fitzroy Crossing to volunteer at the Central Kimberley Football League grand final, as professional development and delivering $25,000 to local sporting community
The visit, hosted by the Shire of Broome, took place over four days as Broome came to life for the Shinju Matsuri Festival earlier this month.
Laura Newell
Australian author George Kyriakou’s latest novel, The Outback Redemption, is a murder mystery exploring family secrets, corporate corruption and the pursuit of justice, set in The Kimberley
Broome renters are facing some of the highest housing costs in the country, with median house rents reaching $1200 a week, according to Domain’s September 2026 Rental Report.
A new eating disorder screening tool developed with Aboriginal communities is being launched in the Kimberley to help identify concerns among young people earlier.
Broome’s new youth precinct has officially opened, nearly a decade after the community first began planning for the space.
Disgraced former bishop Christopher Saunders has been jailed for grooming and molesting two young Aboriginal men more than a decade ago.
Jessica Evensen
Three new commercial tenancies are a step closer to opening at Broome’s Cable Beach foreshore, after the Shire of Broome endorsed the next stage of the redevelopment.
The former bikie enforcer known as “Lethal Les” — who was tortured and excommunicated by the Comanchero gang — has been jailed over a five-year-old money laundering charge.
Caleb Runciman
A David and Goliath battle is looming in WA’s Supreme Court as a South West family sues Main Roads over land snatched to build the Bunbury Outer Ring Road. Plus: Terrace banker bids farewell.
Iron ore giant Fortescue is suing three companies over an allegedly defective pipeline at the dramatically over-budget Iron Bridge magnetite project.
Matt Mckenzie
Hundreds gathered to remember Carramar crash victim Kaine Fisher during an emotional funeral service after he was killed on the job last month.
Australia’s second-richest woman will put more than $500m into her own philanthropic vehicle Coaxial to help address “devastation” in communities across the country.
Adrian Lowe
WA is facing an unprecedented shortage of tradies as the monster naval rearmament project at Henderson sucks up workers and triggers a bidding war between defence contractors and resources giants.
Ben Harvey
BEN HARVEY: $13 Dagwood dogs and $35 parking. Welcome to the Perth Royal Show.
Grisly details of the final moments of Tara Marie Morrison’s life were revealed in the WA Supreme Court where James Anthony Sorgiovanni, 29, and Hannah Louise Glover, 30, stood trial accused of murder.
A young Perth family’s world has been turned upside down after a devoted mother-of-two died suddenly at the age of just 40.
A man has been jailed after he threatened a Kalgoorlie-Boulder day care owner out the front of the centre and said he would burn the building to the ground.
Isabella Davis
A Coolgardie man who indecently assaulted a woman while she was asleep in bed with her husband has been denied bail.
A man whose unwavering dedication to the community was dwarfed only by his love for family is being remembered as a visionary, statesman and scallywag whose “enormous love” always led to action.
Tegan Guthrie
The Eastern Goldfields Historical Society is seeking the public’s help in adding names to the faces in this image.
It’s one of WA’s most popular recreational fishing seasons — and it’s officially back.
Courts in WA will start to shift security and custody duties to the Sheriff’s Office, in a move to reduce pressure on regional police.
The tipping point will start in Europe, some argue it has already begun in the US ... wherever it happens, it will have fundamental impacts on the global economy and lead to difficult policy decisions.
Elsa Ohlen
Would you reject a job candidate who brought an iced coffee to an interview? Your answer may not matter: Either way, someone on the internet thinks you’re wrong. And a career expert says she’s over it.
Sophie Caldwell
The AI infrastructure buildout, which has already reached historic levels, is about to get even more expensive.
Kif Leswing, Isabel O’Brien and Seema Moody
Meta’s Muse AI personal agent tool has only been out for nearly two weeks, and it’s topping the app store charts.
Jonathan Vanian
Just over three years ago, Ezraine Aung was an intelligent, active five-year-old who loved cars and playing with his older brother before one day he was shockingly diagnosed with childhood dementia.
Angela Pownall
Bumping up the cost of haircuts, asking clients to not use card, and absorbing the cost themselves are some of the ways Perth’s small businesses are working through the change in card payment surcharge rules.
Oliver Lane
The former husband of Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre has lodged legal action claiming he was defamed in comments faired on a 60 Minutes episode.
When an unexpected event occurs that puts a life or lives in danger, we are lucky as a society to have amongst us people who act without hesitation.
A mother who revived her toddler after a near-drowning and an off duty DFES officer who rallied bystanders at a fatal bus crash are among dozens recognised at the Royal Life Saving Bravery Awards.
Motorists are being warned that police will be cracking down on reckless drivers who speed through school zones as thousands of kids return to classes for the start of term.
Bethany Hiatt
