The City of Busselton is inviting community feedback on proposed differential rates for the 2026-27 financial year, with the proposed budget including an average rates increase of 7 per cent.
Madelin Hayes
Jessica Page
Two men were rescued from a stranded yacht off Quindalup on Saturday afternoon after rough weather left them trapped at sea as storm conditions intensified.
The second AFL fixture at Bunbury’s Hands Memorial Oval will take place between North Melbourne and Fremantle with the region set to hit the limelight once again.
Jack Penniment
Trailblazing environmentalist Bob Brown has thrown his support behind a growing community campaign opposing a proposed sand mine in Yallingup.
Bunbury mayor Jaysen Miguel used his casting voting during Tuesday night’s council meeting to scrap the 2026-27 budget’s proposed rate rise.
Rose Patane
The State Government’s plan to manufacturer military missiles in the South West town Collie as part of a push to establish an advanced weapons manufacturing hub in the State has sparked outrage.
Jessica Page, Andrew Greene and Craig Duncan
WA’s Royal Agricultural Society has appointed Donnybrook farmer Anne Stroud as its first female president in the association’s nearly 200-year history.
Georgia Campion
With more than 1000 stubby holders lining the shelves of his home, you can see the joy and pride in Arthur Russell’s eyes as he shows off his collection decades in the making.
Singers of all ages and experience levels are invited by the South West Opera Company to join in with its upcoming Big Sing in Bunbury.
First Nations entrepreneurs have been given a one-on-one chance to access organisations with real procurement opportunities.
A moving and powerful one-woman play exploring seven phases of Aboriginal history is set to take to the stage at the Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre in August.
Community members in Bunbury were invited last week to explore supporting opportunities into employment, industry and enterprise as part of the BNI Referral Leaders Bunbury pathways to business visitor day.
Sheds, garages and car ports costing less than $50,000 will no longer need to be done by a registered builder from July, under changes made by the State Government.
Kim Macdonald
West Coast forward Malakai Champion will front the WAFL tribunal after being charged with serious misconduct for allegedly blowing his nose on an opponent in the club’s win over Swan Districts.
Samantha Rogers
‘Lethal’ Les Grantham, the bullet-riddled bikie left for dead with his tattoos burnt off outside Rockingham Hospital after a falling out with his gang, is taking his first steps on the road to redemption.
Ben Harvey
Australia’s corporate regulator has granted funding for an investigation into the financial affairs of a Perth dental business in which millions of dollars of patients’ deposits were misused.
John Flint
Teachers from a prominent Perth high school are calling for the number of days students spend at school each year to be slashed, arguing it could even improve academic performance.
Bethany Hiatt
EXCLUSIVE: Exiled bikied ‘Lethal Les’ Grantham reveals his childhood sexual abuse, teenage meth habit and darkest hours after his high-profile expulsion from the Comanchero OMCG in an extraordinary interview.
It has been revealed that contracts worth tens of millions of dollars are under review by the Cook Government in the wake of the KPMG whistleblower scandal.
A cyclist has died after he collapsed while competing in a mountain biking event in Burekup.
Nearly 20 community batteries will be installed across Perth and the South West to capture excess solar power from roof panels and feed it back at peak times, funded by the Federal and State governments.
Oliver Lane
A DNA tool is allowing a Bindoon cattle producer to identify threatened wildlife and feral species on farm and then take targeted action
Danielle Marsland
South West grown Bravo apples have hit Chinese shores for the first time almost a year after a milestone trade market access agreement was signed.
Grenville Kelly died on Monday, aged 88.
People having to travel to Kalgoorlie-Boulder for court because of the temporary closure of several court circuits in the Goldfields-Esperance region will not have access to government-funded accommodation.
Tanker traffic plunged in early March due to Iranian attacks, causing the biggest oil supply disruption in history.
Spencer Kimball
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.
Yun Li
Iran’s influence over the Strait of Hormuz has inadvertently transformed the energy security debate, effectively casting fossil fuels rather than renewables as the primary source of vulnerability.
Sam Meredith
The retailer lowered its full-year guidance and issued a weak current-quarter outlook as its interim CEO blamed ‘negative commentary in the media’ and recent product launches that failed to wow shoppers.
Gabrielle Fonrouge
A teenager has died in hospital after the buggy he was being driven in ploughed into a kangaroo.
David Hannant
Sugar molecules in your body can reveal disease long before it’s detected, a new West Australian study has revealed.
Claire Sadler
Bikies Troy Mercanti and Dayne Brajkovich went one step beyond brothers-in-arms when they donned jerseys emblazoned with ‘TWINS 01’ and ‘TWINS 02’ ahead of a joint court appearance on Tuesday.
A 19-year-old Perth man has died after an off-road buggy collided with a kangaroo on a property in the Wheatbelt.
Perth locals hunting for jobs are writing resumes wrong, with a critical flaw holding their applications back, a report has revealed.
WA’s top cop says there are ‘significant persons of interest’ regarding the 2010 mystery killing of Broome tradie Josh Warneke after a coroner found several failures of the force’s initial investigation.
Caleb Runciman and Hannah Cross
