Award-winning comedic hypnotist Matt Hale is set to preform at Bunbury Regional Arts Centre next month with his show “Bonkers!”
Amy Johnston
South West police are calling for information to help locate a 27-year-old man believed to be last seen in Collie yesterday.
South West residents are being urged to prepare for flooding and dangerous winds in parts of the region as wet weather continues.
Staff Reporters
Australia’s arts industry is calling for help as it finds itself reeling from continuous COVID hits.
Ailish Delaney
Sharp ears may have heard some sharpshooting last weekend as a local reserve infantry battalion held their range practice to prepare for their required qualification shoot.
Kasper Johansen
City of Bunbury property owners should prepare for a $40 increase to their charges after the council this week adopted its budget for the next financial year.
Collie-Preston MLA Jodie Hanns has thrown her support behind a South West community group in its fight to decrease the speed limit on a notorious stretch of Bussell Highway.
Collie has found itself at the centre of a scientific discovery, after university graduates developed a new concrete material with waste generated from coal burnt at the town’s power stations.
Collie’s new medicinal cannabis facility turns its first sod to celebrate the start of the projected 12-month construction period.
After a fierce contest, Harvey-Brunswick-Leschenault Lions and Bunbury Bulldogs have found themselves playing out a draw for the second time this season, this time 39-39.
Carly Laden
A Margaret River man has been barred from making any contact with the children that were in his care, after being jailed for engaging in sexual conduct with them.
The State Government has dismissed a proposal to install video cameras in vehicles used for driving assessments in Bunbury in response to the city’s dismal success rate among learner drivers.
Jakeb Waddell
With the Tokyo 2020 Olympics under way, Margaret River’s Aran Zalewski’s quest for gold with the Kookaburras has been showing promising signs.
A Bunbury man who had been living rough with an acquired brain injury has been ordered to pay fines to three teenage girls he exposed himself to and attempted to grab, and to be monitored by police.
A WA-first hub for processing graphite will be built in Collie in a bid to help the town transition away from coal.
The high-sugar, easy-peel, seedless varietal will hit supermarket shelves across WA this week.
Jacinta Cantatore
Unfortunately, herd immunity can’t protect us from stupidity.
The South West has copped the brunt of a “twice a year” weather system that saw the region lashed with wild conditions of heavy rain and wind gusts up to 135km/h.
WA’s oncoming cold front can see South West residents anticipate severe weather the region only experiences about twice a year.
More than 100 people put on their thinking caps for the Yarloop Community Resource Centre quiz night last month.
“As we all know our small and family-owned businesses are the lifeblood of our local communities.”
A major survey of resource industry companies has found the Peel and South West economies benefited from almost $3 billion from the sectors, a finding welcomed by the Peel Chamber of Commerce.
It may not be a watershed moment, but one in a series of small turning points that are slowly but surely bringing women into sporting realms that weren’t options even five years ago.
WA’s consumer affairs agency is warning South West residents to be vigilant after the region’s peak irrigation co-operative was targeted by an email scam.
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