WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch has said safety should be the priority at Broome ‘bush doofs’ while reiterating that police don’t want to stop people ‘having fun’.
Cain Andrews
The State Government has stepped in to provide a public bus service in Broome after the Broome Explorer Bus service stop operating suddenly earlier this week.
Wyndham could become home to the latest night space program if a local youth association has its vision realised in an effort to curtail youth crime and provide a safe space for at-risk children.
Oliver Lane
Spudshed founder and WA produce icon Tony Galati was spotted strolling the aisles of Karratha supermarkets this week, quietly scoping out the local grocery scene.
Madelin Hayes
A group of backpackers have started a petition to keep the music at ‘bush doofs’ pumping as the Shire of Broome looks to shut the pop-up parties down following two significant sexual assault cases.
Noongar content creator Kaiden Matera, from Perth, has taken traditional Kimberley spear-making and fishing techniques to the national stage.
Broome’s Sun Pictures will light up next month as Flickerfest returns with two big screenings under the stars.
SAFE Broome’s annual Cause 4 Paws fundraiser has once again proven the strength of community spirit, with this year’s event raising more than $20,000.
Broome has been named the hottest regional centre in Australia, with new research showing the Kimberley hub recorded the nation’s highest average maximum temperature, ahead of all capital cities.
Broome residents are set to enjoy faster internet speeds and stronger mobile coverage, with Optus activating the town’s first 5G site
Broome will be part of WA Music Week for the first time in 2025, as the festival returns after last year’s postponement with organisers promising to blow away audiences across the State
An influx of potentially dangerous toys and furniture coming into Australia via e-commerce giants such as Temu has emerged as a growing source of unintended injuries in WA children.
Rhianna Mitchell
David Etherton, outgoing CEO of VenuesWest, has seen it all. But nothing prepared him for Gout Gout.
Glen Quartermain
AFL expert Danielle Laidley doesn’t hold back in her assessment of a string of big-name Dockers after their Friday night failure. See how she graded each Fremantle and West Coast player here!
Danielle Laidley
There were 18 people crammed into the dining room of a house — including a Crown Casino employee — when officers burst in.
Jessica Page
A conspiracy theory podcast co-host accused of murdering his partner in an alleged act of domestic violence has been remanded in custody over her stabbing death.
Oliver Lane and Rebecca Le May
The death marks the first work-related mine site fatality in WA this year.
Adrian Rauso
The man in his 50s was struck on Thursday evening.
Vulnerable patients were unknowingly put at risk of contracting potentially deadly legionnaires’ disease at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital through contaminated water.
Roger Cook has reassured West Aussies that serious infrastructure failures within one of WA’s biggest hospitals is nothing to worry about. How much longer can the Government pretend that everything is fine?
The Coolgardie Rodeo and Outback Festival has once again proven it is one of the region’s biggest drawcards, smashing attendance records this year as more than 7600 people attended the event.
Jessica Antoniou
More than 400 high school students got a glimpse of university life at Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Curtin University Open Day, where hands-on activities and workshops aimed to spark aspirations beyond high school.
The original Kalgoorlie Municipal Chambers will be converted into a backpacker-style hostel, despite mayor Glenn Wilson raising concerns it may be used for workforce accommodation.
Tegan Guthrie
Geraldton police have launched a major operation to combat a trend of early-morning burglaries and car thefts across the city, with extra assistance from noisy eyes in the sky.
This could be the king of all fishing tales, which involves a would-be monarch, a 260kg fish and the local Cash Converters store.
The Shire of Ravensthorpe has begun the process of recruiting a new chief executive after the resignation of Matthew Bird.
Businesses across Asia are increasingly warming up to stablecoins for cross-border transactions — a trend set to accelerate further as Hong Kong moves to legalise the use of digital tokens, experts told CNBC.
Anniek Bao
Microsoft shares jumped in extended trading overnight Wednesday, pushing the company’s market cap past $US4 trillion.
Ari Levy and Jordan Novet
Billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla missed on the top and bottom lines in the second quarter, but another miss was buried in its investor deck.
Ari Levy
Elon Musk has warned Tesla faces “a few rough quarters” after the company reported a 16 per cent decline in automotive revenue as sales fell for a second-straight quarter and again trailed analysts’ estimates.
Lora Kolodny
The Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters is a worldwide phenomenon dominating streaming services and captivating kids, while themed events sell out around the city.
Rachel Fenner
WA Police are hunting a man with an ‘extensive criminal history’ after he allegedly used ‘deceit and trickery’ to escape from court custody on Friday.
Hannah Cross
The illegal practices of some of our dodgiest rideshare and taxi drivers have been exposed in a secret police sting as the State Government vows to crackdown on the industry.
A woman has been charged over an alleged hit and run in Perth’s northern suburbs.
Police are urgently searching for a man who allegedly escaped from custody who they say “should not be approached”.
Builders have been appointed for 14 new housing projects in Perth, aiming to deliver more affordable and social homes.
