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  1. MiningCommentsPremiumBHP and Rio on fast charge towards new age of electrics

  2. Community PremiumPilbara locals encouraged to ditch the booze in July

  3. Local Government PremiumBill passed to overturn Supreme Court mining rates decision

  4. Sports PremiumNorth Pilbara round 8

  5. State PoliticsCommentsPremiumWA fisheries inquiry set to go ahead with crossbench support

Yinhawangka ranger program received $1.73m in State funding.

Funding PremiumMillions for Pilbara ranger programs

Aboriginal ranger organisations across the Pilbara set to expand their work caring for country, protecting cultural heritage and creating local jobs after securing State funding.

Phoebe Solon

Police Minister Reece Whitby has defended the use of police air escort to fly accused criminals to bail hearings.

state politicsCommentsPremiumCriminals given police air escort amid court security crisis

WA Police is now being forced to fly accused criminals from remote communities to their court appearances after hearings were suspended in more than 20 regional areas over a security dispute. 

Jessica Page

Senior Sergeant Kal Greenaway.

King’s Honours PremiumFormer Roebourne senior-sergeant receives APM

Former Roebourne Police Station officer in charge Sen.-Sgt Kal Greenaway has received the prestigious Australian Police Medal for more than 39 years on the force. 

Cain Andrews

Fortescue chair and founder Andrew Forrest.

MiningCommentsPremiumFMG inks historic deal with Juukan Gorge traditional owners

Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue has inked a ‘co-management’ deal with the traditional owners of Juukan Gorge, which was infamously destroyed by Rio Tinto in 2020.

Cheyanne Enciso

GEN Royal Australian College of General Practitioners WA Chair Dr Ramya Raman at State Parliament.

Health PremiumHousing crisis causing regional doctor retention issues

Housing availability and affordability has become a major barrier to retaining GPs in regional WA, according to Royal Australian College of General Practitioners WA vice president and chair Dr Ramya Raman. 

Cain Andrews

PHVFRS captain Spencer Hawkins and Ruth Buckley with the anniversary book.

WAFES AwardsPremiumPilbara Emergency Services nominated for WAFES awards

Rescue efforts during cyclone Narelle and a string of complex Karijini gorge rescues have landed Pilbara emergency volunteers on the finalist list for the 2026 WAFES Awards

Cain Andrews

Rural Health West Chief Executive Officer Professor Catherine Elliott with RACGP Vice President and Western Australia Chair Dr Ramya Raman

Health PremiumPremiumPilbara struggles with low GP retention rates

The Pilbara is struggling with a revolving door of medical staff despite a dramatic jump in new doctors taking posts in the region. 

Wildcats training

WA newsPremiumPremiumNBL action heading to Karratha

Pilbara basketball fans will be treated to an NBL spetactular in their own backyard next month. 

Horizon Power's Rebecca Dalton, Jack Rentsch, Dwayne Oxenham, Kiwirrkurra Community's Dinny Ward, Horizon Power's Kayne Lewis and Brett Sutcliffe.

Community PremiumPremiumKiwirrkurra receives Advanced Metering Infrastructure

One of WA’s most remote communities can now more easily connect to power following infrastructure upgrades and electricity repayments becoming available at their local store.  

The Karratha Leisureplex.

WA news PremiumTender for sports precinct master planning to be awarded

An $800,000 contract for planning the “co-ordinated master plan” of three major sporting precincts in the City of Karratha is set to be awarded to a Perth-based firm.

Laura Newell

The city has received funding for numberplate recognition cameras.

WA newsPremiumCity to decide on State CCTV cash offer

City of Karratha councillors have been advised to accept $101,560 in State funding for five automatic numberplate recognition CCTV cameras, despite not having asked for the cash in the first place

Laura Newell

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Member for Fremantle Josh Wilson has been hit with a five-match ban after an incident at a weekend soccer game.

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Josh Wilson hit with five-match ban after soccer punch

A member of Anthony Albanese’s outer ministry has been suspended from playing amateur soccer for more than a month after punching a football opponent in the face.

Joe Spagnolo and Katina Curtis

Centurion chief executive Justin Cardaci (left) with Express Group founders Andrea and Mark Mazza.

CEOsCommentsPremiumCEO’s shock exit from family transport empire

The chief executive of a family-owned transport group is unexpectedly stepping down after nearly 12 years, triggering a search for a new boss.

Sean Smith

In video supplied to The West Australian, footage shows what appears to be a CBH train derailed just past Cowcowing on 22nd June

Countryman NewsVideoPremiumWATCH: Investigations underway after CBH grain train derails

Footage shows a locomotive and at least five grain carriages lying on their side with grain spilled out on to grass.

Georgia Campion

Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir has the Dockers firing like no one ever has.

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Motormouth Mitch: Freo's next $2m man who needs to sign

The signature which could cost Fremantle $2 million a season and the forward West Coast could turn to as they try to solve their defensive woes. Mitchell Woodcock takes a look at a big week in footy.

Mitchell Woodcock

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Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Jonathan How discusses the cold front about to hit WA.

WeatherVideoCommentsThunder, lightning, damaging winds make for weekend washout

Perth and large parts of WA are bracing for a wild weekend of rain, thunderstorms and dangerous coastal conditions as a powerful cold front barrels across the State.

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Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has unveiled a new accommodation for homeless veterans, war heroes.

BusinessCommentsPremiumRinehart opens new homeless veteran accommodation

Hancock Prospecting has unveiled its newly refurbished accommodation to house homeless veterans and war heroes — with the residential complex named in honour of Ben Roberts-Smith.

Cheyanne Enciso

In video supplied to The West Australian, footage shows what appears to be a CBH train derailed just past Cowcowing on 22nd June

Countryman NewsVideoPremiumPremiumWATCH: Investigations underway after CBH grain train derails

Footage shows a locomotive and at least five grain carriages lying on their side with grain spilled out on to grass.

A man is dead and his motorcycle passenger is fighting for her life after a bike travelling in a convoy left the road and crashed near Rockingham on Sunday morning.

PolicePremiumPremiumMan dead and woman critical after motorcycle convoy crash

A man is dead and his motorcycle passenger is fighting for her life after a bike travelling in a convoy left the road and crashed near Rockingham.

The City of Stirling is investigating a Nollamara backyard development.

PropertyCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumPerth neighbours claim granny flat approval gone too far

The City of Stirling is investigating a backyard development after concerns a single granny flat approval has led to what neighbours describe as an ‘accommodation village’ in a residential street.

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Perth man Malcolm Vivian was killed when his amateur-built light plane crashed in the Wheatbelt.

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Pilot killed in horror crash remembered as a ‘beautiful man’

The flying community is mourning the loss of a pilot who was killed when his amateur-built light plane crashed in the Wheatbelt yesterday.

Brooke Rolfe

The Dongara foreshore and inset, Shire of Irwin president Isabelle Scott.

Fishing inquiryPremiumFishing probe to include Dongara seismic blasting

Seismic blasting off the coast of Dongara will form part of a parliamentary inquiry into the management of fisheries in WA.

Sally Q Davies

The Bridgetown Leisure Centre.

Council PreviewPremiumCouncil to consider reforms for Bridgetown Leisure Centre

The future operating model of the Bridgetown Leisure Centre will be put under the microscope this week as the Shire of Bridgetown-Greenbushes considers reforms.

Serian Lockwood-Jones

Sea urchins seized by Mid West fisheries officers.

Fisheries finesPremiumPremiumIllegal fishing practices land four men with hefty fines

An illegal haul of sea urchins has left two men in a prickly position after they were slapped with hefty fines in the Geraldton Magistrates Court last week.

The erosion along the coastline in Port Denison.

ErosionPremiumPremiumCommunity concern for Port Denison erosion at all-time high

Community fears in Port Denison about erosion, which is washing away beaches and putting community infrastructure and even one of the town’s main streets at risk, has only intensified after recent storms.

Steve Pennells with Yeah the Boys author Holden Sheppard.

TV dealPremiumPremiumGeraldton author’s sequel set for global TV audience

The rights to develop Geraldton’s acclaimed author Holden Sheppard’s sequel to Invisible Boys into a international TV drama have already been secured, just two months after the book was published.

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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.

Yun Li

People along the coast of the Persian Gulf, while Iranian and foreign cargo vessels wait in the background for clearance to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

CNBC newsPremiumHow Strait of Hormuz standoff flipped energy security debate

Iran’s influence over the Strait of Hormuz has inadvertently transformed the energy security debate, effectively casting fossil fuels rather than renewables as the primary source of vulnerability.

Sam Meredith

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Senior Labor figures have backed Fremantle MP Josh Wilson after he was hit with a massive ban for punching his opponent in the face in an amateur soccer game last month.

WA NewsCommentsPremiumLabor colleagues back soccer punch MP

Senior Labor figures have backed Fremantle MP Josh Wilson after he was hit with a massive ban for punching his opponent in the face in an amateur soccer game last month.

Rhianna Mitchell and Andrew Greene

After fighting fraud charges for years, Bret Silvey is now behind bars until April 2035.

Courts & JusticePremiumHigh-profile Perth fraudster has sentence application denied

The brother of disgraced Fremantle author Craig Silvey was jailed for three counts of gains benefit by fraud after swindling a WA property developer out of $71 million.

Jessica Evensen

Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Jonathan How discusses the cold front about to hit WA.

WeatherVideoCommentsCommentsThunder, lightning, damaging winds make for weekend washout

Perth and large parts of WA are bracing for a wild weekend of rain, thunderstorms and dangerous coastal conditions as a powerful cold front barrels across the State.

DPIRD veterinarian taking samples to test for the virus.

Public HealthVideoCommentsCommentsSix more birds being tested amid WA bird flu outbreak

Another six birds will be tested for the H5 avian influenza virus in WA as formal testing continues on a seabird that will potentially become the State’s third confirmed case of the deadly strain.

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CourtOccult podcaster murdered fiancee in rage

An occult podcaster stabbed his fiancee to death in a rage about a rent inspection while he was coming down from a drug-fuelled trip to Sydney.

Perth man Malcolm Vivian was killed when his amateur-built light plane crashed in the Wheatbelt.

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Disaster and EmergencyCommentsPremium
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Pilot killed in horror crash remembered as a ‘beautiful man’

The flying community is mourning the loss of a pilot who was killed when his amateur-built light plane crashed in the Wheatbelt yesterday.

Brooke Rolfe