The crippling debt which has plagued the Shire of Coolgardie will be reduced by almost 80 per cent after councillors endorsed using $20 million from the sale of the Bluebush Village to pay down loans.
Tegan Guthrie
Giants’ women remain a game clear in sixth place on the NBL1 West ladder.
Neale Harvey
The Shire of Coolgardie council saw two major changes last week, with a councillor resigning on the same day a resident was elected to fill an earlier vacancy.
Matt MacLellan led the Giants at home on Saturday with 24 points.
Railways are within a game of first place in the Goldfields Football League standings.
Kalgoorlie piled on four last-quarter goals to upset Boulder in Saturday’s Goldfields Football League match at Digger Daws Oval.
Applications are open for a “refreshed and bolstered” scholarship program for undergraduate students studying science and engineering or business and law at Curtin University’s Kalgoorlie campus.
An Esperance fisherman who is alleged to have collected a “suspicious” package from Australia Post which contained more than 50g of meth before police swapped it out for a decoy has had his bail hopes dashed.
Community markets will once again return to Burt Street this Sunday as part of a local activation initiative.
The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder council may consider reducing its proposed 6 per cent rates hike to under 5 per cent for the 2026-27 financial year, according to a social media post by Cr Ric Halse.
Local swimmers racked-up a string of top performances in Perth last weekend.
Sierra Moore will miss Saturday’s NBL1 West clash but has been cleared of a more serious injury.
WA’s oldest country football club turns 130 this year.
Railways last Saturday pinched a last-gasp win over Boulder.
Cars carry stories, especially in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, and a Perth-based photographer wants to hear them.
Isabella Davis
The Goldfields region may have changed in many ways since 1966, but the essence of the Royal Flying Doctor Service’s Eastern Goldfields Auxiliary remains largely the same decades later.
Students at Fairbridge College can enjoy a newly resurfaced basketball court after a $20,000 election commitment from Kalgoorlie MLA Ali Kent.
The Eastern Goldfields Historical Society is seeking the public’s help identifying and shedding light on this photo.
An oceanfront pub in Esperance is up for sale along with a hotel, bar, restaurant, function room and bottle shop.
A man has denied he poured petrol at the front door of the home his partner was hiding inside while threatening to “burn the house down”.
Boulder are second on the reserves ladder, a game adrift of Mines Rovers.
The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder council has deferred endorsing a rates hike for the next financial year after dozens of submissions from the public were received during the consultation period.
Mines lead the Eastern Goldfields Hockey Association boys’ J3-8 ladder with seven wins.
Work on the Outback Way — the 2700km road that will connect Laverton to Winton in Queensland— could soon be making headway.
