Broome Advertiser

Date debateKeep the date, focus on the issues: Tracey

Shire of Broome president Harold Tracey has weighed in on the Australia Day date debate, stating there are “far more pressing issues” facing indigenous people in the North.

Jakeb Waddell

REGIONAL RORTNW living cost: Perth + 15pc

Elise Van Aken

Australia DayNational day to be a spirited affair

Your guide to what’s happening for Australia Day in Broome.

Carly Laden

ORD VALLEY MUSTERPeople’s Choirboy heads to the Kimberley

Aussie pub-rock band Choirboys frontman Mark Gable will act as MC at The Kimberley Moon Experience.

Elise Van Aken

CourtBroome man jailed for 16 months for selling cannabis

Police found approximately 1.5kgs of cannabis in Osvaldo Benaldi’s home.

Carly Laden

Asbestos threatHistoric school’s $5m rebuild after alleged arson hit

Broome Primary School, which has an immense history dating back to 1901, was partially burned down by an alleged arsonist this month, with the overall bill now believed to be about $5 million.

Jakeb Waddell

YEAR IN REVIEWTime of healingand reckoning for region

From jailed cult leaders to a guerilla graffiti activist, Kimberley Echo journalist Elise Van Aken looks back on the news highlights from the second half of 2019.

Elise Van Aken

Last chanceMan avoids jail for robbing, damaging store

Corizma Winston Butt, 18, handed a suspended prison sentence and community based order.

Carly Laden

Former Labor staffer avoids jail over defraud attempt

First half full of ups and downs

Pod project earns acclaim

Making a splashBarracudas make big splash in Perth

Broome Barracudas continue their winning ways in Perth swimming meet.

Carly Laden

Year in ReviewBig end to 2019

Looking back on the big sports stories from the second half of 2019.

Carly Laden

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Trial of the centuryClaremont trial: Everything you need to know

For so long, so much has been said and written about the Claremont serial killings, but so little was known. Now for the first time, read everything you need to know about the ‘trial of the century’.

The West Australian

Must see50 of the best Fringe World Festival shows

If you’re overwhelmed by the hundreds of shows on offer, let us guide you through weird, the wonderful and the downright whacky.

Jay Hanna, Belle Taylor, Lily Hoffmann, Pierra Willix and Jessie Stoelwinder

Year 12 school rankingsATARs: Top regional school leads way for country kids

Close friends to count on and supportive teachers provided the winning formula that helped push a South West Catholic college to become WA’s top-ranked regional school in the ATAR rankings.

Bethany Hiatt

Regional News

Outback searchFour-wheel-driver missing on Canning Stock Route

An aerial search is under way for a four-wheel-driver missing on the Canning Stock Route in the WA outback.

Pride of WAEsperance hay convoy ready to help WA’s farmers

20 trucks carrying more than 2000 hay bales will leave Esperance about 8am today bound for drought-affected areas of our State

Kelsey Reid

FIFO WORKER JAILEDDutch backpacker’s Broome beach rape nightmare

Port Hedland FIFO worker Darby Michael Jacoby, 20, has been jailed for two years after raping a Dutch backpacker at Gantheaume Point near Broome

Carly Laden and Jakeb Waddell

WA bats could carry coronavirus that has killed 41

Kambalda seeks players for women’s football team

'Stop pussyfooting around': Kalgoorlie crackdown on booze

WA News

Perfect matchWA Cider and Pork Festival heading our way

The team responsible for the WA Beer and Beef Festival is back, with a new mouth-watering flavour combination to be showcased over a two-day event.

David Johns

Water warningNorth Cott closed after shark sighting

A shark sighting has closed a popular Perth beach for the second time today.

Mark McGowan: Why time isn’t right to change date

What will Claremont DNA evidence reveal?

Four-wheel-driver missing on Canning Stock Route

Brutal attackScreaming woman saved after alleged sex assault

Police have praised good Samaritans who came to the aid of a screaming woman during an alleged brutal sexual assault in Northbridge early Saturday morning.