Footy in Geraldton is back! After a long off-season, the Great Northern Football League will finally get started with round one kicking off this weekend.
Fraser Williams
Anna Cox
Nationals WA Geraldton candidate Kirrilee Warr has unveiled her first State election promise ahead of the 2025 poll — a rescue helicopter for the Mid West.
The majority of women surveyed in a new homelessness report were forced to resort to extreme measures such as couch surfing or sleeping in a car.
If you ask most Brits what they miss food-wise about the UK, the answer will most likely either be decent fish and chips or, more often than not, a great curry.
Derek Goforth
A puppet show musical based on a French classic is set to start its Australian tour at Geraldton’s Queens Park Theatre.
Matthew Paddick
Ahead of the GNFL season, one of the most successful clubs in the competition will rename its home ground for the next three years.
Police have arrested and charged two men over multiple bottle shop thefts in Geraldton, including a ram raid on a Brand Highway liquor store.
Tourism Minister Rita Saffioti has announced an $8 million commitment to the Mid West which will deliver a jetty at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands.
Guest chefs Scott Bridger and Melissa Palinkas have touched down in Geraldton ahead of Shore Leave Festival celebrations, busting to work with world-class Mid West produce.
Anglo American has told BHP it needs to fork out more if it wants the British mining giant’s prized copper mines.
Adrian Rauso
The massive gold operation that claimed its second life in the space of 18 months — and WA’s first mine site death of 2024 — has fallen foul of the safety regulator 10 times in the past two years.
Leading Pinjarra trainer Brett Pope is expected to appeal what he says is an ‘excessive’ sanction for an administrative error after the euthanasia of 15 horses.
Hayden King
Two Swan Valley vets who falsified documents relating to the death of a Great Dane to cover up they did not provide post-operative care before he died have been banned from practising for several months.
Emily Moulton
West Coast coach Adam Simpson says he hopes his flying midfield can maintain its dominant clearance form without teenage star Harley Reid.
Mitchell Woodcock
A woman has been taken to hospital after a reported chemical spill east of Perth.
Caleb Runciman
People in the southern part of Walpole Wilderness Area have been told to flee as an out of control bushfire, believed to be deliberately lit, threatens lives and homes about 50km west of Denmark.
Tens of thousands of West Australians have gathered to honour the courage and sacrifice of the Anzacs at a moving dawn service at Kings Park on Thursday morning.
The AFL has been slammed as having inconsistent double standards by furious fans after West Coast defender Tom Barrass had his one-game suspension upheld on Wednesday.
Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis announced an $8.6 million drought-assistance package, but farmers are concerned that will only ‘touch the edges’.
Jake Dietsch
A drone has threatened to derail firefighting efforts amid an ‘extreme’ inferno burning in WA as authorities revealed there were seven ignition points believed to have triggered the deliberately lit blaze.
Eliza Kavanagh
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in 1990, the Australian Government sent a pair of $5 gold commemorative coins to surviving service people, including a mystery Goldfields veteran.
From country music to nature drawing, here’s your guide to the week ahead in the Great Southern.
Halls Creek has been selected to receive Federal funding as part of a significant nationwide effort to reform youth justice.
Jenny Woo makes $142,000 a month from Amazon alone, now she’s revealed what not to do when embarking on a side hustle.
Jenny Woo
The French town of Saint-Amand-Montrond is selling a 77sqm for €1. It’s a two-level house with two bedrooms and one and a half bathrooms ... but there’s a catch.
Celia Fernandez
Tesla kicks off tech earnings with its stock at its lowest point since early 2023. Meta, Apple and Microsoft report later this week and each company faces its own set of concerns.
Hayden Field
The cities that perform well on the list have also developed initiatives that cater to their citizens’ overall quality of life. And one Australian city came in third!
Ernestine Siu
The identity of a young woman who died at the scene of a suspicious house fire in Perth’s southern suburbs has been revealed.
Caleb Runciman, Rachel Fenner, Phil Hickey and Lauren Price
Police have launched a homicide investigation after the body of a woman was found in a house fire, which also left a young girl and a man suffering smoke inhalation.
Angie Raphael
Two people have been arrested after allegedly spraying an ‘unknown’ substance inside a Bunnings, which sent 10 people to hospital.
A witness has described seeing a plane crash, seriously injuring an elderly pilot, at Jandakot Airport.
An emergency level bushfire has been deemed deliberately lit, as authorities try to contain the blaze that has already burnt through 8000 hectares.
The average cost of unleaded petrol across the major Australian cities has reached its highest price ever.
Tim Clarke