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  1. The Geraldton GuardianPremiumWoman hit with hefty fine for black market seafood trading

  2. Bushfire emergencyPremiumNo homes lost in emergency Port Denison bushfire

  3. SoftballPremiumMarlins and Rams slide into division one grand finals

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Wanderers will play Sporties in next weekend's decider.

CricketPremiumWanderers take nine-run win and advance to big dance

Wanderers will join Sportsmans in Saturday’s Geraldton Bendigo Bank Cricket grand final after clinching a nine-run win over Towns on Saturday at The Rec. 

Victor Tanti

Sportsmans' Clint Yeates celebrates his century.

CricketPremiumSportsmans’ Clint Yeates claims third Doug Hogue medal

Sporties all-rounder Clint Yeates won his third Doug Hogue Medal at the Geraldton Regional Cricket Board awards presentation held at Towns Football Club on Saturday night.

Victor Tanti

Liam Hunt will captain the Buccs in 2026.

BasketballPremiumSon-of-a-gun Hunt earns Buccs captaincy honours

Buccaneers’ stalwart Liam Hunt has been appointed captain for the 2026 season, as he and Buccs legend Mat Wundenberg have confirmed they will go around for another season. 

Rebecca Ruthven

Dave Daniell survived a terrifying encounter with a suspected great white shark off the coast of Exmouth this week. Pictured is a bite mark on his foil board.

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WA man’s ‘miracle’ survival after great white bites board

SEE THE PICTURES: A WA sparkie says it’s a ‘miracle’ he’s alive after a shark attacked his foil board before he was thrown into the murky depths beside the ocean predator.

Caleb Runciman

The incident occurred in the State’s north on Saturday morning.

SharksCommentsSecond shark attack in days rocks WA coast

The incident comes just days after a local electrician was also attacked in the area.

Kirsty Lichtenstein

Carnarvon's Smash Series cricketers.

CricketPremiumCarnarvon junior cricket numbers boosted through new series

Carnarvon’s cricketers are having a blast in the newly launched Smash Series, a fast, fun and social T20-style cricket tournament designed to build and retain interest in the sport among its junior players. 

Rebecca Ruthven

Farmers Across Borders road trains delivering hay.

Farmers in needPastoralists struggling to get hands on crucial hay supplies

Gascoyne farmers still facing drought are in desperate need of hay, yet a lack of funding and exorbitant fuel prices are stopping precious feed from arriving to their gates. 

Service stations have been warned not to profit off Australians amid the war in the Middle East.

Fuel and farmingPremiumPremiumMid West sets unwanted record high fuel prices

The Mid West is breaking records in all the wrong ways — prices at the bowser in the region in recent days have surpassed the previous peak. 

Binar Maali and Geraldton Buccaneers pose together post-game.

BasketballPremiumPremiumBuccs show their depth in pre-season scratch match wins

Geraldton Buccaneers have shown promising signs as they prepare to launch their NBL1 title defence with a new-look squad, coming away with two scratch match wins in Perth over the weekend. 

Winner of general practitioner of the year, Richard Taylor.

Health champsPremiumMid West locals take out honours at WA Rural Health Awards

The Mid West region has been done proud at the 2026 WA Rural Health Excellence Awards, with all three local finalists taking home the win. 

Imogen Wilson

Kerry Mackay doing fencing work.

Bushfire and disaster reliefBlazeAid arrives to help Warradarge farmers

Welcome relief has arrived for farmers in Warradarge, with BlazeAid setting up camp in Leeman to restore boundary fences destroyed in last year’s fire. 

Sally Q Davies

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Brodie Dewar returned to Perth District Court on Monday.

Courts & JusticePremiumAlleged coward-punch killer Brodie Dewar back in court

The man accused of killing WA Labor figure Tim Picton with a coward-punch outside a nightclub has returned to court.

Sarah Crawford

The Worsley Alumina operation.

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Worker dies at South32’s Worsley

South32 is temporarily scaling back operations at the Worsley Alumina refinery near Collie after a workplace fatality before dawn today.

Adrian Rauso

An unwitting drug mule has been jailed for his role in a cross-border meth-trafficking operation, which used Apple Air Tags to monitor the movements of illicit drugs between New South Wales and Western Australia. 

CrimePremiumUnwitting drug mule learns fate for role in meth-trafficking

An unwitting drug mule has been sentenced for his role in a cross-border meth-trafficking operation, which used Apple Air Tags to monitor the movements of illicit drugs between NSW and WA.

Jessica Evensen

Peter Bennett died at home late on Wednesday, aged 59.

EngineeringPremiumBoss of Perth-based engineering firm dies suddenly

Century-old Clough said Peter Bennett’s ‘influence on our company, our culture and our industry will endure for many years to come’.

Sean Smith

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Ashleigh Schaub with 18-month-old Xander Grahma and Sarah Graham with 3-year-old Aylah Schaub at Earlybirds Playgroup in Mt Hawthorn.

WA NewsCommentsPremiumReport finds shocking wellbeing decline in WA kids

A worrying pattern of declining mental health and rising developmental concerns is emerging in WA’s youth, according to new report from the Commissioner for Children and Young People.

Rhianna Mitchell

“It’s not like if a train is late, or a school has crap NAPLAN scores,” with Ben Harvey.

Up LateVideoCommentsPremiumIt’s not like if a train is late, or a school has bad scores

Ben Harvey proves the hospital system is as much of a basket case now as 20 years ago – even though politicians have spent $176 billion on health in the meantime.

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Shadow Health Minister Libby Mettam.

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CommentsPremiumCalls for free flu jabs to start before winter crisis hits

There’s a push for free flu vaccines to be offered earlier, and for longer, as Perth hospitals brace for winter. 

Universities need to rethink assessment and recruitment amid the rise of AI, a minister says. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

PoliticsCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumAI could make university degrees less valuable

AI could make soft skills like judgment more important for workers than traditional university degrees, assistant minister Andrew Leigh will say in a speech.

An audit of Perth youth hostels, include Mission Australia’s in Victoria Park, has found they are full most days. Pictured is Mission Australia WA Regional Leader Elise Jorgensen with youth at a facility in the Southern Suburbs Justin Benson-Cooper

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CommentsPremiumUnlucky housing lottery for Perth’s lost kids

An audit has revealed Perth’s housing crisis is hitting vulnerable teens and young adults hard, with shelters forced to turn more people away every day, sparking a nightly scramble for help for hundreds.

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Thi Sinh Nguyen, 42, pleaded guilty in Geraldton Magistrates Court on March 9.

The Geraldton GuardianPremiumWoman hit with hefty fine for black market seafood trading

A Geraldton woman has copped a whopping fine for buying and selling recreationally caught rock lobster on the black market

Imogen Wilson

PHBG’s warren smoker in action.

Pest controlPremiumLandholders fighting rabbits with underground warfare

Regional landholders are taking the fight to one of Australia’s most pervasive pests with some underground warfare. 

Craig Duncan

Nicole Watts and Bailey Ryan at the 2026 Frontier Goldfields Children Charity Ball.

Charity ballPremiumTop-secret high-roller auction item a hit at GCC Ball

A top-secret high roller auction item at Saturday night’s Goldfields Children Charity Ball saw local companies and community members digging extra deep to support local children experiencing health issues.

Tegan Guthrie

Clean up Australia Day saw nearly 5000 pieces of rubbish collected from Koombana Bay and Rocky Point.

ENVIRONMENTPremiumPremiumDolphin safety the focus in whopping Koombana Clean Up haul

The City of Bunbury have released their collection statistics for Clean Up Australia Day, with nearly 5000 pieces of rubbish collected along the Koombana coastline.  

The Ciry of Bunbury council agenda has been released for third meeting of the year.

COUNCIL PremiumPremiumCity of Bunbury council to meet for third 2025 hit-out.

The City of Bunbury council have released the agenda for their third meeting of the year, with tonight’s “hit-out” taking a step back from the last. 

Lily Anzellino, Jude Turner, Ken Turner, Geoffrey Bach, Jayne Stennett, Forget-Me-Not memory Cafe founder Angi McCluskey, Steve Hepton, and Dorothy Hepton.

COMMUNITY SUPPORTPremiumPremiumAustralind to be included in memory cafe program

The Shire of Harvey has expanded its Forget-Me-Not Memory Cafe program to Australind in a bid to increase access to the initiative

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A general view of the Port of Kharg Island Oil Terminal, 25 km from the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf.

CNBC newsPremiumOil’s war-driven volatility pulls in record retail money

The Iran war news flow-driven oil moves are drawing retail investors into the world’s most traded commodity, further fuelling volatility.

Lee Ying Shan

Gordon Ramsay

CNBC newsVideoCommentsPremiumWATCH: How Gordon Ramsay built a billion-dollar empire

Chef, restaurateur and global TV star Gordon Ramsay has opened the doors to his newest Michelin-starred location and reflects on the setbacks and successes that have shaped his career.

Caitlin Kalinowski stepped down from OpenAI after raising concerns the company moved too quickly on a Pentagon AI agreement.

CNBC newsCommentsOpenAI hardware chief quits over Pentagon AI deal

OpenAI hardware chief Caitlin Kalinowski has resigned, warning the company rushed into a deal to deploy its AI models on Pentagon networks.

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Flightradar24 still of flight traffic across the Middle East on March 4th, 2026.

CNBC newsVideoCommentsPremium$17 trillion at stake as travellers caught in Iran crossfire

The war in Iran is part of a growing number of conflicts that have affected the global tourism industry, showing that people who are far from falling missiles and drone attacks aren’t immune to ripple effects.

Leslie Josephs and Contessa Brewer

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CEO Voice: Tanya Steinbeck.

PropertyCommentsPremiumPerth’s ‘chronic’ land supply prompts dire 2030 prediction

Enough land supply for nine to 16 days worth of demand, according to two studies. No wonder UDIA expects we will miss the Housing Accord target by 25,000 homes by 2030.

Kim Macdonald

The cross marking the spot where Mark Edward Gregory was killed in a hit-and-run on Mercer Road in 1991.

Cold case PremiumHunt for new clues into unsolved Albany hit-and-run death

Police are pleading for the authors of letters “dobbing in” possible suspects in the unsolved historic hit-and-run death of Mark Edward Gregory to come forward, as new technology reopens the Albany cold case.

Melissa Sheil

Lines for fuel at VIBE Nollamara this morning.

WA NewsCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumHundreds queue in 35C heat as fuel hits extortionate $2.76

Round-the-block queues at a Nollamara service station have starkly illustrated the impact of rising fuel prices on top of another hike in mortgage rates.

One Sandgroper’s life will never be the same after scooping a multi-million-dollar windfall.

CHECK YOUR SLIPSCommentsCommentsWA ticketholder nets the whole Lott-o with insane $15m haul

One fortunate West Aussie player has scored the entire Oz Lotto jackpot.

Rachel Dolan, Abbie Hynes, Jodie McGlinchey, Heather McLoughlin, Abby Farrell, Ruth Watson and Rebecca Killalea.

St Patricks DayCommentsCommentsPerth awash with green and Guinness-fuelled fun for St Pats

The CBD was transformed into a sea of emerald on Tuesday as the Irish and honorary locals alike kicked off St Patrick’s Day with a whole lot of craic.

The RAC Rescue helicopter was sent to a road crash in Beaufort River to airlift one woman, while the other died at the scene.

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Crash kills woman, second being airlifted to Perth

A woman has died after a serious car crash on Albany Highway in Beaufort River, with a second woman flown to Perth with critical injuries. 

Jacki Elezovich