A massive list of South West schools have been forced to close today due to an extreme bushfire risk.
Holly Prentice
Sean Van Der Wielen
More than 100 players, coaches and members from Great Southern clubs and associations brushed shoulders with leading athletes and coaches at the inaugural Great Southern Sports Forum.
Harry Grigson
Manjimup Speedway was loud and roaring as the V8s and modified sedans made their way onto the track for spectators to see on Saturday night.
Daniel Hocking
Bridgetown swimming pool’s closure on Saturday, during the hottest day of the month, revealed a deeper issue within the region with staffing shortages and lack of resources.
The family of Australind open water swimmer Kyle Lee have expressed their pride after the 21-year-old booked his place in this year’s Paris Olympics earlier this month.
Silly season is in full swing in the South West Football League, with more than 200 transfer requests submitted in the opening two weeks of the player movement period.
Josh Kempton
Annual crime statistics released by WA Police reveal drug offences have surged across most of the Lower South West region, despite overall offences decreasing in most major towns.
Less than a month after the creation of more than 100 Main Roads jobs was announced by the State Government, a new office in Manjimup has been opened.
Boyup Brook have ended Manjimup’s Warren Blackwood Cricket Association season with a 34-run elimination final win at Boyup Brook Oval.
Forestry have booked their place in the Warren Blackwood Cricket Association grand final with a thrilling four-run qualifying final win over Bridgetown at Collier Street Sporting Complex.
A Lower South West product will pull on the famous blue and gold this football season, with Deanmill product Harley Sparks signing for West Coast’s reserves team.
Jackson Barrett
The Manjimup Rovers men’s soccer team will participate in the Australia Cup for the first time on Sunday.
A serving WA Police officer has tragically died after she took her own life in regional WA.
Phil Hickey
BHP has confirmed government assistance could be too little too late in rescuing the drowning WA nickel operations that caused the Big Australian to cut its interim dividend.
Adrian Rauso
The union representing Network Aviation pilots has hit back at a planned meeting with Qantas management, claiming the town hall assembly will not address the systemic issues of the ongoing pay dispute.
Gerard Cockburn
Dozens of suspected asylum seekers who arrived via boat on WA’s remote north coast have been flown to Nauru.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
A chorus of West Coast fans have rejoiced at the possibility of the return to the original song as the new era under chief executive Don Pyke continues to take shape.
Mitchell Woodcock
West Coast being described as ‘ridiculous and unprofessional’ for dressing up during pre-season shows a lack of understanding for what life is really like as a professional athlete, writes Caitlin Bassett.
Matt Wright’s insurance provider has delivered a setback in a civil lawsuit brought by the widow of his Netflix co-star Chris Wilson.
A Riverton family have been reunited with their beloved inflatable Santa after it was stolen from their restaurant in a brazen robbery.
Crying from his seat in Albany Magistrates Court, Gary Antony Gordon Batchelor was fined for his role in a sting operation to crack a drug ring in Albany.
Georgia Campion
People travelling on Eyre Highway and in southern parts of Balladonia — north-east of Esperance — are urged to evacuate as firefighters work to douse a raging bushfire.
Caleb Runciman
West Pilbara residents are being warned to prepare for heavy winds and rain over the coming days as ex-tropical cyclone Lincoln heads West off the Kimberley coast and is set to re-develop.
Sam Jones
A man who stole a vehicle and trailer belonging to Ultimate Watersports — which contained $60,000 of accessories to help people with disability — and torched it near the speedway is set to be sentenced.
Police have barred 15 people from purchasing alcohol across a WA region since laws strengthening the banned drinkers register were introduced in December.
The State Government has declared another WA farming district to be water-deficient, triggering water-carting procedures to address emergency animal welfare concerns.
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The Economist
China is gearing up to showcase its narrow-body passenger jet to a global audience for the first time at the Singapore Airshow.
Shreyashi Sanyal
The new model, called Sora, allows a user to type out a desired scene and turns it into a high-definition video clip.
Hayden Field
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has to testify in a probe by the US Securities and Exchange Commission concerning his 2022 acquisition of Twitter, a US judge ordered in a court filing out Saturday.
Lora Kolodny
Indian doctors and nurses will be targeted to plug gaps in WA hospitals during a 10-day mission spearheaded by Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson.
Josh Zimmerman
A Broome Bishop at the centre of a top-secret investigation ordered by the Pope has been arrested over alleged historical sex offences, some dating back 50 years.
Chris Reason
A candidate who submitted his form 20 minutes late will be allowed to contest Liberal preselection in the Federal seat of Forrest after it was previously believed Ben Small would be nominated unopposed.
A leading lawyers group and the State Government are at loggerheads over proposed laws designed to crack down on ‘claims harvesting’.
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