A Wheatbelt council is offering $20,000 to whoever buys the town’s only butcher shop as the current owners step back from the award-winning business.
Hannah Whitehead
The Gnowangerup community is rallying around each other to ensure those living in the area have access to food and other essentials after a fire at the town’s only supermarket on Wednesday.
Cameron Newbold and Melissa Sheil
Mingenew Turf Club says it was left with “no choice” but to cancel its 2025 race meeting next weekend after a decision to allow it to make changes to the track was overturned.
Kate Campbell
The City of Albany has called for a natural disaster to be declared after last Thursday’s record-breaking rainfall left much of Albany and the Great Southern with floods and water damage.
Jacki Elezovich
A volunteer-run shearing committee that put Katanning on the map has been recognised in the Australia Day Citizen of the Year Awards ceremony.
WA farmer Bythe Calnan and her dog Banski are two of the stars of Muster Dogs season three, which pits kelpies against collies in the ultimate test.
Clare Rigden
Residents of a town in WA’s Wheatbelt are the third-most likely in Australia to live to 100, according to new research.
Adam Poulsen
Four trailblazers with roots firmly in agriculture have been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for their services to regional WA.
Adam Poulsen, Olivia Ford & Caitlyn Rintoul
Plans to build a 79-turbine wind farm on a family-owned wheat and sheep farm at Badgingarra could pump $500,000 a year into an ‘unprecedented’ community benefit fund.
Adam Poulsen & Matthew Paddick
WA’s largest farm aggregation — estimated to be worth about $200 million — has been returned to local hands after more than five years of foreign ownership.
Adam Poulsen, Cally Dupe & Olivia Ford
Cheaper flights to Kalgoorlie-Boulder could be on the horizon as Tourism Minister Rita Saffioti flags the inaugural Golden Saddle race as an attraction that could benefit from the Affordable Airfares Program.
Tegan Guthrie
The WA Nationals have promised to introduce mandatory train lighting regulations, which they say are “vital changes” that will improve rail safety and help prevent further level crossing accidents.
Olivia Ford
Renewable energy projects would be guided by a State planning doctrine, which would ensure developers would contribute a portion of earnings into regional communities, under a Nationals State election policy.
Dylan Caporn
The opening of the Port of Wyndham to international exports and imports will, “absolutely change the north,” local business and community leaders say.
Sarah Crawford
But the Opposition has accused him of making promises he doesn’t deliver after the Prime Minister landed in Kununurra to announce a $200 million infrastructure package.
Jessica Page
The East Kimberley’s “struggle town” of Wyndham is set to be radically transformed after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gave the green light for international exports and imports through the port.
Albany’s bushfire chief has applauded the local response to an out-of-control bushfire that razed hundreds of hectares just an hour from the city on Thursday, leaving hundreds of homes without power.
Harry Grigson
Some Mid West residents experienced a sour note to Christmas when last-minute festive parcels went up in flames after a delivery truck caught fire on Christmas Eve.
Perth Wildcats owner Mark Arena is promising to play regular season NBL games in regional towns throughout Western Australia, saying he wants people to contact the club to mount their case.
Craig O'Donoghue
Bunbury residents are being warned to look out for an invasive wasp species as the weather warms, after the first nest was detected in the region earlier this year.
Ezra Kaye and Melissa Pedelty
Tom Curtain, two-time Golden Guitar winner and ambassador for Dolly’s Dream, will soon be performing to country audiences in WA as part of his ‘Good Life’ tour.
As another harvest draws to a close, the Countryman team is excited to share some of our favourite readers’ photos from this season.
Staff reporters
Two elderly people were taken to hospital following a serious crash in Narrogin in which a car smashed through a brick wall.
Eliza Kavanagh
Collie community members have expressed their concerns about the town’s future if the Coalition implements its nuclear plan at a parliamentary inquiry in the town on Monday.
Oliver Lane
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