An incredible survival story has emerged from the South West, where a grandmother had to dig a hole to survive as temperatures plummeted during her bush ordeal.
Ailish DelaneyJournalist
Shannon Verhagen
What two hours at Perth Airport and the first 24 hours of lockdown taught me about COVID battle.
Jackson Barrett
A group of Bunbury’s unemployed Aboriginal people have found work, some for the very first time, thanks to a new program launched in the South West.
All three of Fremantle’s South West products were a part of the contingent which flew to Melbourne on Tuesday afternoon, fleeing Perth’s COVID lockdown to ensure the AFL season can continue.
A Dardanup woman has avoided jail after setting fire to part of her long-time neighbour’s backyard in a “very unusual scenario”.
Carly Laden
A Bunbury man has been sentenced to prison for more than two years after a number of dangerous car chases in which he evaded police twice and drop a loaded shotgun.
Bunbury product Chloe Piparo has signed a two-year contract extension at the Perth Scorchers, which will see her remain a WBBL player at the club until the end of the 2022-23 season.
Augusta-Margaret River will be out for redemption in Saturday’s mouth-watering top-of-the-table clash against Bunbury at Gloucester Park.
Hours before the Perth and Peel regions were plunged into a COVID-19 lockdown on Monday night, the South West Football League announced its squad for the 2021 women’s country football championships.
According to the Royal Commission, the average length of time a person spends in residential aged care before their death is two years and six months.
Ailish Delaney
A war of words erupted online between South West Labor MLC Jackie Jarvis and WAFarmers president John Hassell after the MLC’s powerful parliamentary speech about Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce.
Detectives have launched a fresh public appeal for information into the 1991 murder of Kerry Turner, amid confirmation a major ‘forensic review’ was carried out into the case several years ago.
Phil Hickey
WA Police has been plunged into mourning after two serving officers — including a sergeant who ran his own station — took their own lives in the past fortnight.
Phil Hickey and Brianna Dugan
The club is famously private, but today The West Australian can for the first time reveal the names of all its 842 members.
Rhianna Mitchell
A man who punched a Kalgoorlie-Boulder taxi driver before stealing his vehicle and narrowly avoiding a collision with a police car has been jailed for 18 months, but could be out within weeks.
Tegan Guthrie
A Pajero and caravan have flipped on the Brand Highway near Jurien Bay, with the driver being taken to hospital and holidaymakers being forced to wait while emergency services cleared the scene.
Daryna Zadvirna
A family of seven whose bus was engulfed by flames at a popular Pilbara camp site have thanked those who tried to help fight the blaze, while revealing their devastation over the loss of their home.
Sam Jones
It is the 16th fatal crash in the Great Southern region this year.
Perth holidaymakers are cancelling their bookings across the Mid West as they grapple with a snap lockdown on the edge of the July school holidays.
A 22-year-old man who admitted to setting fire to an Esperance lunch bar just days after Christmas has had his bail extended.
A new dad has described the terrifying moment he barricaded himself inside his neighbour’s AirBnB after a post-lockdown school party — which required the police chopper to shut it down — turned wild.
Sarah Steger
Health Minister Roger Cook will speak on the State’s ongoing fight managing the coronavirus pandemic.
Detectives are on the hunt for three teenagers after an elderly man was brutally bashed in Greenfields yesterday.
My ideal last day involves catching a 20kg pink snapper and watching my two live-in carers — the granddaughters of Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer — prepare it for dinner. But that seems unlikely.
Eight people, including two teenagers, have been killed in the past five days on WA’s roads, with the State recording 87 traffic deaths in 2021 — almost one death every other day for six months.
There’s a new push for a radical revamp of the State’s stamp duty system, which annually nets the Government millions but is a substantial impost to buying a home. Here’s how REIWA says it could work.
Joe Spagnolo
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