The Department of Transport will test out its readiness to respond to a maritime environmental emergency in Dampier as part of an upcoming training exercise Exercise Zephyr.
Alexander Scott
Time is running out for residents in the vast North West Central electorate to enrol for next month’s by-election, with enrolment closing tonight.
Staff writers
The long-awaited Onslow water tank mural project has finally begun with artist Jerome Davenport commencing painting recently.
More than 40 public sector workers in Karratha walked off the job in protest of the State Government’s wages policy — joining thousands around WA in the simultaneous protest.
Dampier Sharks outclassed Karratha Falcons in round 14 of the North Pilbara Football League women’s competition at Bulgarra Oval on August 12.
A fourth-quarter blitz from Dampier Sharks powered the reigning premiers home against the Karratha Falcons in the penultimate round of the North Pilbara Football League.
Pilbara businesses have applied for more than 100 roles to be filled in the first four months since the Pilbara Designated Area Migration Agreement was launched.
A roundtable meeting between government, peak body representatives, community members and industry was held in Karratha recently to brainstorm ways of tackling issues relating to jobs and skills in Karratha.
Rio Tinto has awarded two contracts worth a combined $61 million for the supply of new conveyor pulleys and pulley rebuilds that will see a purpose-built facility established in Karratha.
The Pilbara Ports Authority announced a 7 per cent increase in its July throughput compared with the same time period last year.
The Shire of East Pilbara has paid its respects to long time member and stalwart of the Newman community, Anita Grace who passed away over the weekend.
In the first decades of last century, what is now one of Perth’s hottest housing spots was an aquatic playground.
Malcolm Quekett
Fisheries Minister Don Punch has told WA’s commercial and recreational fishing industries to ‘take the pain’ as they brace for new rules banning them from catching the State’s most prized species.
Steve Butler
The man who lost his life on a Murchison road earlier this week has been remembered as a mischievous free spirit who was cherished by family and friends.
Jessica Moroney
A Kalgoorlie-Boulder man who twice assaulted his ex-partner, and has a history of similar behaviour, has been declared a serial family violence offender.
Amber Lilley
The Australian institution that is the Country Women’s Association is celebrating its centenary and for one member of WA’s oldest branch, it has brought back enough family memories to fill a cookbook.
The WA Prison Officers’ Union has issued a stark safety warning over critical staffing levels at Broome Regional Prison after prison officers were ordered to come in on their rostered days off.
A couple accused of a serious armed robbery in Kalgoorlie-Boulder will have their bail variation to travel interstate reviewed after a police prosecutor labelled a supposed christening a ‘ruse’ to leave WA.
West Australians living in the north of the State have been warned to brace for a wetter than usual summer — and a higher risk of cyclones — after the Bureau of Meteorology issued a La Nina alert this week.
Josh Zimmerman & Hamish Spence
A homeowner in Perth’s south east has giggled as she admitted sleeping through four youths crashing a car into her house, ending up with its rear end perched on the roof.
Rebecca Le May and Miriam Fisher
A new global brand for WA with a focus on Indigenous culture is set to be unveiled next month.
A Perth mother whose twin daughters were killed in the Bali bombings says the impending release of one of the key players in the terrorist atrocity has plunged her back into the horror of that day.
Tight rental vacancy rates, and expectations of a busy Spring sales season, are further tightening the screws on Perth’s housing crisis.
This is the never-before-seen picture of one of WA’s most wanted alleged drug kingpins posing in what’s believed to be his Colombian hideout that has a frustrated police itching to bring him back in handcuffs.
Shannon Hampton
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