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  1. Country champs PremiumLGSHA finish third but Gallimore claims fairest and best

  2. doctor’s reportPremiumGreat Southern retains GPs longer than any WA region

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Four months on from the horrifying incident in WA’s south that left her mother and brother dead, Mary Eades is pleading for anyone with information about what happened to her family to come forward.

Albany AdvertiserVideoPremiumWATCH: Family of WA murder victims pleads for information

Months on from the horrifying incident that left her mother and brother dead, Mary Eades is pleading for anyone who has information about what happened to come forward after a $1 million reward was announced.

Melissa Sheil

Albany's Natalie Jarvis and Tegan Stoney.

roller derbyFierce competition for Albany Roller Derby in Adelaide

Albany’s Great Southern Breakers rolled onto the national stage this month at the Great Southern Slam in Adelaide, taking on fierce interstate competition in Australia’s biggest roller derby tournament. 

Jacki Elezovich

Albany's Robbie Lee kicks.

Tense finish PremiumSharks charge in final quarter to claim win over Lions

Albany stormed home in a thrilling final quarter comeback to overpower Royals by 26 points at Retravision Stadium in the Think Mental Health Round on Saturday.

Amy Towers

Police are searching for 46-year-old Jodie King who was last seen in the Darkan area on Wednesday.

Missing PersonUrgent welfare concerns for missing woman Jodie King

Great Southern police have urgent welfare concerns for 46-year-old Jodie King who was last seen in Darkan on Wednesday. 

Amy Towers

Plantagenet Wines founder Tony Smith.

oam PremiumFather of regional wine honoured at last

Many remember the late Antony “Tony” Smith as a fierce advocate for WA wines but fewer recall that he planted the seeds for the industry of which he later became a stalwart.

Melissa Sheil

Poet Saara Milliken with a copies of her book A Flower State Of Mind.

Flower powerPremiumHaving ‘time and space to breathe’ inspires poet Milliken

It was a journey of just four and a bit hours, but it was enough to change Saara Milliken’s life

Claire Middleton

Wendy Trappitt, Julie Martin and Dot Farr.

Dinner dance IN PICTURES: Locals put on dancing shoes for Bornholm dance

The sounds of music, laughter and dancing filled Bornholm Hall on Saturday night as locals took to the dance floor for a bicentenary dinner dance celebration

Chocolatier Yael Angwin and Whitfield Estate owner Kelly Howard with their champion chocolate award.

Hot chocolateTropical Trio named top choc for Denmark’s Whitfield Estate

The return of chocolate to the Perth Royal Food Awards was celebrated in style at Denmark’s Whitfield Estate as it picked up a champion’s gong for a mouth-watering white chocolate entry, Tropical Trio.

Team captains Ocean Sluiter, 13, and Billy Ugle, 13, before the match.

Blue wavePremiumPremiumCalies’ mental health soccer match ‘starts a conversation’

Albany Caledonians raised more than $4000 for Beyond Blue after holding a Mental Health Match when their two under-14 soccer sides came head-to-head at North Road last Saturday.

Editor Malcolm Traill and contributing authors Sarah Drummond and Jill Sheed with a copy of A Gift Of Truth Telling: Notes On The Bicentenary Of Albany.

Albany 2026PremiumJournal explores Albany history through new lens

Dozens of Albany writers have lent their voices to an academic journal exploring Albany’s Indigenous history and the future of reconciliation, with the volume launched this week for the city’s bicentenary. 

Jacki Elezovich

Lake Grace-Pingrup's Luke Bairstow takes off.

Tough win PremiumBattle of the Bombers goes to Lake Grace-Pingrup

Lake Grace-Pingrup took the chance to move a game clear in second spot on the Ongerup Football Association ladder after shaking off a determined Boxwood Hill on Saturday.

Cameron Newbold

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Member for Fremantle Josh Wilson has been hit with a five-match ban after an incident at a weekend soccer game.

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Josh Wilson hit with five-match ban after soccer punch

A member of Anthony Albanese’s outer ministry has been suspended from playing amateur soccer for more than a month after punching a football opponent in the face.

Joe Spagnolo and Katina Curtis

Centurion chief executive Justin Cardaci (left) with Express Group founders Andrea and Mark Mazza.

CEOsCommentsPremiumCEO’s shock exit from family transport empire

The chief executive of a family-owned transport group is unexpectedly stepping down after nearly 12 years, triggering a search for a new boss.

Sean Smith

In video supplied to The West Australian, footage shows what appears to be a CBH train derailed just past Cowcowing on 22nd June

Countryman NewsVideoPremiumWATCH: Investigations underway after CBH grain train derails

Footage shows a locomotive and at least five grain carriages lying on their side with grain spilled out on to grass.

Georgia Campion

Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir has the Dockers firing like no one ever has.

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Motormouth Mitch: Freo's next $2m man who needs to sign

The signature which could cost Fremantle $2 million a season and the forward West Coast could turn to as they try to solve their defensive woes. Mitchell Woodcock takes a look at a big week in footy.

Mitchell Woodcock

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Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Jonathan How discusses the cold front about to hit WA.

WeatherVideoCommentsThunder, lightning, damaging winds make for weekend washout

Perth and large parts of WA are bracing for a wild weekend of rain, thunderstorms and dangerous coastal conditions as a powerful cold front barrels across the State.

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Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has unveiled a new accommodation for homeless veterans, war heroes.

BusinessCommentsPremiumRinehart opens new homeless veteran accommodation

Hancock Prospecting has unveiled its newly refurbished accommodation to house homeless veterans and war heroes — with the residential complex named in honour of Ben Roberts-Smith.

Cheyanne Enciso

In video supplied to The West Australian, footage shows what appears to be a CBH train derailed just past Cowcowing on 22nd June

Countryman NewsVideoPremiumPremiumWATCH: Investigations underway after CBH grain train derails

Footage shows a locomotive and at least five grain carriages lying on their side with grain spilled out on to grass.

A man is dead and his motorcycle passenger is fighting for her life after a bike travelling in a convoy left the road and crashed near Rockingham on Sunday morning.

PolicePremiumPremiumMan dead and woman critical after motorcycle convoy crash

A man is dead and his motorcycle passenger is fighting for her life after a bike travelling in a convoy left the road and crashed near Rockingham.

The City of Stirling is investigating a Nollamara backyard development.

PropertyCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumPerth neighbours claim granny flat approval gone too far

The City of Stirling is investigating a backyard development after concerns a single granny flat approval has led to what neighbours describe as an ‘accommodation village’ in a residential street.

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Perth man Malcolm Vivian was killed when his amateur-built light plane crashed in the Wheatbelt.

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Pilot killed in horror crash remembered as a ‘beautiful man’

The flying community is mourning the loss of a pilot who was killed when his amateur-built light plane crashed in the Wheatbelt yesterday.

Brooke Rolfe

The Dongara foreshore and inset, Shire of Irwin president Isabelle Scott.

Fishing inquiryPremiumFishing probe to include Dongara seismic blasting

Seismic blasting off the coast of Dongara will form part of a parliamentary inquiry into the management of fisheries in WA.

Sally Q Davies

The Bridgetown Leisure Centre.

Council PreviewPremiumCouncil to consider reforms for Bridgetown Leisure Centre

The future operating model of the Bridgetown Leisure Centre will be put under the microscope this week as the Shire of Bridgetown-Greenbushes considers reforms.

Serian Lockwood-Jones

Sea urchins seized by Mid West fisheries officers.

Fisheries finesPremiumPremiumIllegal fishing practices land four men with hefty fines

An illegal haul of sea urchins has left two men in a prickly position after they were slapped with hefty fines in the Geraldton Magistrates Court last week.

The erosion along the coastline in Port Denison.

ErosionPremiumPremiumCommunity concern for Port Denison erosion at all-time high

Community fears in Port Denison about erosion, which is washing away beaches and putting community infrastructure and even one of the town’s main streets at risk, has only intensified after recent storms.

Steve Pennells with Yeah the Boys author Holden Sheppard.

TV dealPremiumPremiumGeraldton author’s sequel set for global TV audience

The rights to develop Geraldton’s acclaimed author Holden Sheppard’s sequel to Invisible Boys into a international TV drama have already been secured, just two months after the book was published.

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Kevin Warsh, chairman of the US Federal Reserve. Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged and were split over whether they expect to raise rates this year.

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Warsh’s taskforces are the key to understanding the new Fed

Fed chair Kevin Warsh stuck to his long-stated belief in his first press conference on Wednesday that ‘inflation is a choice.’

Matt Peterson

Ships anchored on May 16, 2026 in the Strait of Hormuz near Larak Island, Iran.

EnergyCommentsPremiumCrude oil tumbles after Trump says Strait of Hormuz to open

Tanker traffic plunged in early March due to Iranian attacks, causing the biggest oil supply disruption in history.

Spencer Kimball

Cathie Wood, chief executive officer of Ark Investment Management LLC.

CNBC newsCommentsPremiumInvestors who took a chance on SpaceX now reap the rewards

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

People along the coast of the Persian Gulf, while Iranian and foreign cargo vessels wait in the background for clearance to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

CNBC newsPremiumHow Strait of Hormuz standoff flipped energy security debate

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

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Senior Labor figures have backed Fremantle MP Josh Wilson after he was hit with a massive ban for punching his opponent in the face in an amateur soccer game last month.

WA NewsCommentsPremiumLabor colleagues back soccer punch MP

Senior Labor figures have backed Fremantle MP Josh Wilson after he was hit with a massive ban for punching his opponent in the face in an amateur soccer game last month.

Rhianna Mitchell and Andrew Greene

After fighting fraud charges for years, Bret Silvey is now behind bars until April 2035.

Courts & JusticePremiumHigh-profile Perth fraudster has sentence application denied

The brother of disgraced Fremantle author Craig Silvey was jailed for three counts of gains benefit by fraud after swindling a WA property developer out of $71 million.

Jessica Evensen

Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Jonathan How discusses the cold front about to hit WA.

WeatherVideoCommentsCommentsThunder, lightning, damaging winds make for weekend washout

Perth and large parts of WA are bracing for a wild weekend of rain, thunderstorms and dangerous coastal conditions as a powerful cold front barrels across the State.

DPIRD veterinarian taking samples to test for the virus.

Public HealthVideoCommentsCommentsSix more birds being tested amid WA bird flu outbreak

Another six birds will be tested for the H5 avian influenza virus in WA as formal testing continues on a seabird that will potentially become the State’s third confirmed case of the deadly strain.

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CourtOccult podcaster murdered fiancee in rage

An occult podcaster stabbed his fiancee to death in a rage about a rent inspection while he was coming down from a drug-fuelled trip to Sydney.

Perth man Malcolm Vivian was killed when his amateur-built light plane crashed in the Wheatbelt.

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Disaster and EmergencyCommentsPremium
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Pilot killed in horror crash remembered as a ‘beautiful man’

The flying community is mourning the loss of a pilot who was killed when his amateur-built light plane crashed in the Wheatbelt yesterday.

Brooke Rolfe