Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley councillors have voted to give themselves a 25 per cent pay rise to encourage more candidates to stand in the next local government elections.
Sarah Crawford
Three Broome businesses have come away with award wins from the Regional Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s Regional Business Awards.
Cain Andrews
Rising costs and labour shortages continue to plague Kimberley businesses, with Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA report revealing nearly 90 per cent of businesses are struggling to find workers.
Bayside clinched the win in their clash with the Gantheaume Pointers in round four of the Broome Basketball Association’s semester one senior men’s competition on April 9.
Despite a fresh US tariff on Australian beef exports, Kimberley industry leaders say it’s not international trade that’s hampering growth — it’s Canberra’s red tape.
A social media fad blamed for a spike in youth crime in Halls Creek appears to have lost its appeal, with police reporting that harsher sentences for youths have led to the end of the TikTok challenge.
Building off a season of high performance in 2024, Kimberley AFL stars Callum Ah Chee and Toby Bedford are showing no signs of slowing down, delivering a solid start for the 2025 season.
More than 7000ha of agricultural land in the Ord River irrigation area is on the market as receivers for failed grower Quintis liquidate the assets of what was the world’s biggest sandalwood producer.
Broome police have laid a raft of charges against people travelling into Broome over the past week in their most recent sting targeting the transportation of prohibited drugs into the iconic tourist town.
Notre Dame’s Nulungu Institute is exploring solutions to energy poverty in remote Indigenous communities – which leaves some of Australia’s most vulnerable without power in extreme heat for days on end.
A group of youths allegedly took a stolen ambulance on a 520km joyride from a remote community in the Northern Territory to Halls Creek where it rammed a police car injuring two officers.
“We can’t go back,” artist Philomena Baadjo from Balgo says as she strokes burnt orange paint onto her canvas.
Natasha Clark
Our young Broome athletes have proved once again that they punch well above their weight, returning home from the Little Athletics State Championships with a slew of medals around their necks.
The Peninsula Bombers have clocked another win in the Broome Basketball Association’s semester one men’s competition, this time over the Gantheaume Pointers.
From denser housing to livelier street fronts, Broome’s urban future is taking shape after councillors signed off on two major precinct plans.
A successful youth crime diversionary program is making its way to the East Kimberley with Wunan Foundation set to launch its Still on Track e-scooter building program in the coming months.
Hundreds of Broome residents flocked to Streeters Jetty on April 1, to witness the biggest king tide in a century engulf the iconic structure.
A 39-year-old Fitzroy Crossing man who received serious head injuries in an e-scooter crash has lost his licence for 17 months and fined $2500 plus court costs after police brought charges against him.
A young man who drowned in an East Kimberley waterhole did not die alone with a friend jumping into the raging whirlpool in a desperate attempt to save him -- only to nearly drown himself.
Food airlifts to the Kimberley - which has cost $270,000 in the past three years - will happen more frequently unless the road network receives a major upgrade to deal with climate change, expert warns
Tributes for the 23-year-old have flooded social media as the tragic news spreads through the tight knit community.
Two Kimberley AFL stars have recently celebrated 100-game milestones with their respective clubs, proving once again the region is a hub for football talent.
The body of a Kununurra man, 23, has been retrieved from a waterhole south of Kununurra three days after he went missing.
A flood warning is now in place for people in the Tanami Desert, Sandy Desert and Western Desert Catchments in parts of the Kimberley, Pilbara and Goldfields Midlands.
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