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New Year's Eve along the Busselton Foreshore.

EVENT AT RISKFestival of Busselton New Year’s Eve at risk of cancellation

The Festival of Busselton’s iconic New Year’s Eve event is at risk of cancellation if more sponsors don’t jump onboard to assist with rising costs. 

Madelin Hayes

A Toyota Corolla and Transperth bus collided in Busselton on Tuesday morning.

Bus crashCorolla & Transperth bus collide in Busselton

Morning commuters were in for a shock when a Toyota Corolla and Transperth bus collided in Busselton on Tuesday morning.

Madelin Hayes

Elevated walkways across wet and low-lying areas,

HikingPremiumCape to cape trail given major upgrades

The week long hike from Augusta to Dunsborough has been given some much needed love, thanks to a $3.5 million investment. 

Craig Duncan

Busselton's under-12 side tied their grand final against Bunbury.

NetballPremiumBusselton junior netballers showcase talent

The South West and Peel regions’ best young netballers showcased their talent in Bunbury at the weekend as Busselton had the moment of the weekend. 

Jack Penniment

Andy Pitt with his family.

Community coming together PremiumFundraiser smashes target earning more than $40K for charity

A community fundraiser for a Busselton identity has smashed its target, securing more than $40,000 for MND WA, disabled surfers and Embrace Inclusion

Craig Duncan

The aftermath of the Nanga Brook fire.

dasdSouth West shire’s benefit from bushfire spending

Several South West shires are set to benefit from the latest round of bushfire mitigation activity fund grants, with the State spending more than $5.1 million to prepare for bushfire season.

Craig Duncan

Lake Albany and Vasse MLA Libby Mettam.

Youth ParliamentTeen represents Margaret River in Youth Parliament

Lake Albany is among four young leaders from the South West who represented the region in Parliament this week as part of a youth leadership program.

Documentary filmmaker Alastair Bruce won the best cinematography award at the 2026 Australia Youth Film Festival for Where the Rain Goes.

WINNING FILMSouth West filmmaker wins big at film festival

A young filmmaker hailing from Margaret River and Busselton has been recognised on the national stage for a documentary film highlighting water scarcity in the Wheatbelt. 

Forrest MHR Ben Small cutting the ribbon to his new office in Busselton.

Politics Ben Small opens doors to satellite office in Busselton 

Forrest MHR Ben Small has opened the doors to a new satellite electorate office in the City of Busselton. 

Nina Kennedy makes an attempt in the women's pole vault during the Herculis Diamond League athletics meet in Monaco on Friday.

Pole VaultBusselton’s Nina Kennedy soars to new heights with record

Busselton-born Olympic champion Nina Kennedy has announced her return to the world stage in spectacular fashion, breaking her own Australian record with a history-making pole vault performance in Monaco.

Jack Penniment

South West's Leroy Anderson fires off a handball.

FootballColts coach reflects on third straight grand final defeat

The South West colts finished their CBH Group Country Championships campaign with plenty of positives despite falling short in the division one grand final for the third straight year. 

Jack Penniment

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A major disturbance involving multiple inmates has unfolded at WA’s maximum security prison.

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Officer injured during riot at WA’s maximum security prison

A major disturbance involving multiple inmates has unfolded at WA’s maximum security prison with reports of widespread damage to cells and ‘considerable’ flooding.

Charlton Hart and Caleb Runciman

Cloverdale crash

Disaster and EmergencyVideoPremium‘Small boy lying face down’: Horrific details of fatal crash

Cloverdale residents have recounted the horror and distressing screams that followed a little boy being fatally struck on Tuesday while crossing a suburban street.

Brooke Rolfe

A Perth man who died in a Balinese detention centre reportedly owed tens of thousands of dollars to more than a dozen furious customers he ripped off through his Indonesian car restoration company. 

WA NewsVideoPremiumPerth mechanic found dead in Bali conned man out of $76,000

A Perth man who died in a Balinese detention centre reportedly owed tens of thousands of dollars to more than a dozen furious customers he ripped off through his Indonesian car restoration company. 

Jessica Evensen

Brad Gandy Australian Workers Union WA State Secretary.

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‘I won’t listen to Cook’: Union leader striking against BHP

The senior Labor figure spearheading historic strikes against BHP has told Premier Roger Cook and any other political colleagues hoping for an end to the militant industrial action to get stuffed.

Adrian Rauso and Oliver Lane

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Cockatoo Island.

MiningCommentsPremiumIron ore miner declares insolvency

The Hong Kong company miner on Cockatoo Island off the Kimberley has collapsed into administration, with taxpayers owed money.

Adrian Rauso

A Perth man who died in a Balinese detention centre reportedly owed tens of thousands of dollars to more than a dozen furious customers he ripped off through his Indonesian car restoration company. 

WA NewsVideoPremiumPerth mechanic found dead in Bali conned man out of $76,000

A Perth man who died in a Balinese detention centre reportedly owed tens of thousands of dollars to more than a dozen furious customers he ripped off through his Indonesian car restoration company. 

Jessica Evensen

In a remarkable twist of fate, the two found one another on a red dusty road near Beacon, 12 days after the backpacker went missing.

WA NewsCommentsCommentsHow saving backpacker Carolina changed WA farmer’s life

New details reveal how a local livestock farmer accidentally stumbled across a German backpacker 12 days after she went missing, triggering an international search and rescue mission.

Dr Christian Jack Joseph, 26, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on Sunday.

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PremiumFreo death accused showed jiu-jitsu choke moves in video

The friend group of a Perth doctor charged over an alleged choke-hold death after an altercation in Fremantle on Saturday morning say they have been left completely stunned after he was thrown behind bars. 

Christian Jack Joseph, 26, is accused of killing a 63-year-old man who was found unresponsive on a Fremantle street in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Courts and CrimeVideoPremiumPremiumYoung Perth doctor accused of killing man in Fremantle

A young doctor has been charged with manslaughter after a 63-year-old was found unresponsive on a Fremantle street in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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Jim Webb and Jeannie Poletti.

EmergencyCommentsPremiumVolunteer ambo, off-duty nurse saves her grandfather’s life

Geraldton’s own Jeannie Poletti never expected to help save the life of someone she knew, let alone her own grandfather, when she started her career as a nurse and St John WA volunteer ambulance officer.

Imogen Wilson

The retail giant has challenged the ACCC, lodging an application with the Australian Competition Tribunal.

RetailCommentsPremiumGoldfields supermarket battle heats up with Coles appeal

Coles is seeking a review of the Australian competition watchdog’s decision to block its proposal for a new supermarket and liquor store in Kalgoorlie.

Rebecca Le May

New trapdoor spider species Idiosoma ganbarrga.

EnvironmentNewly-named spider honours Badimia language

A newly discovered species of spider found in the Murchison region has been officially named using the local Badimia language. 

Sally Q Davies

Brooke McIntosh told the women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder how she turned her life around.

Leading womenAthlete tells local women to check in on themselves first

Former mine worker Brooke McIntosh was miraculously uninjured when she was hit by a truck four years ago, but the near-death experience inspired her to change her life

Ty Anderson, Zavier Williams and Blake Soulos in Harvey-Brunswick-Leschenault's 70th anniversary jumper.

FootballHarvey-Brunswick-Leschenault set for bumper 70th anniversary

This Saturday Harvey-Brunswick-Leschenault Football Club are celebrating their 70th anniversary, with a big day set to honour the history of the club when they face South Bunbury

Nina Kennedy makes an attempt in the women's pole vault during the Herculis Diamond League athletics meet in Monaco on Friday.

Pole VaultBusselton’s Nina Kennedy soars to new heights with record

Busselton-born Olympic champion Nina Kennedy has announced her return to the world stage in spectacular fashion, breaking her own Australian record with a history-making pole vault performance in Monaco.

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Android figures at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, US.

TechnologyCommentsPremiumGoogle loses fight on record $6.8 billion antitrust fine

Europe’s top court has dismissed the tech giant’s appeals against the 2018 EU ruling.

Arjun Kharpal

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.

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The number of drivers flogging it on Perth freeways has soared.

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Fines on Perth freeways surge 675 per cent in crackdown

The number of selfish and idiotic drivers caught speeding on Perth freeways has soared by nearly 700 per cent, as the State Government continues to expand its number of speed cameras on WA roads. 

Jessica Evensen

William Maahes Vigersune leaves Albany Magistrates Court after learning his fate.

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Man learns fate for nightclub coward punch against teenager

A man who threw the ‘very definition’ of a coward’s punch at a teenager and knocked him unconscious outside a nightclub before goading witnesses, has learned his fate for the serious attack.

Melissa Sheil

Perth cyber-safety expert Paul Litherland.

CrimeCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumAlarming rise in sextortion scams targeting Perth teens

A Perth cyber-safety expert says education remains the key to halting an alarming rise in boys and young men being blackmailed by criminals who coerce them into sharing intimate sexual images.

state politicsCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumPanicked Labor ramps up One Nation battle for ‘safe’ seat

Roger Cook and Basil Zempilas were forced to fend off questions about the threat of One Nation as they hit the campaign trail in Secret Harbour on Sunday.

Premier Roger Cook has labelled a weeks long water issue at social housing complex in Perth that left residents resorting to drinking from a bird bath as merely ‘inconvenient’.

WA NewsCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumPremier’s wild message to WA residents living without water

Premier Roger Cook has labelled it ‘inconvenient’ that residents in a social housing complex in Perth’s south have resorted to drinking from bird baths due to the building’s meek water supply. 

The Edges and the Wilsons (from left): Alice (11), Heidi (13), Charlotte (15),and mum, Annie Wilson and Nikki Edge with kids Harry (8) Lewis (10), Mason (13) and Oliver (12).

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West Aussies most likely to get on with their neighbours

New research shows West Australians are more likely to have a good relationship with their neighbours than anywhere else in the country, with about two thirds saying they love where they live.

Amy Cavender