Cape Range National Park, Ningaloo Marine Park and 78,000 hectares of new reserves to be managed by traditional custodians.
Peter de Kruijff
“After a number of months we just couldn’t find a way forward so we’ve just got to bring it to a close.”
Geoff Vivian
Carnarvon’s prominent water tanks have been fitted with new remote monitoring equipment to reduce the potential for local supply interruptions during extreme weather events such as cyclones.
A biography a WA man is writing about his father will bring back memories of the early days of oil and gas drilling in the State.
Reuben Carder
Garden writer Stan Maley finds a business enjoying brisk trade during the restrictions — and a service club on the lookout for new members.
Stan Maley
“I’ve calculated Rachel has changed around 33,000 nappies, read 16,500 stories, and helped get 40,000 children to sleep.”
With West Australians encouraged to “wander out yonder”, Melangata Station, north-east of Yalgoo, has played host to its first weekend-long bush furniture workshop.
Glenda Blyth
Kalbarri Offshore & Angling Club has been going strong, with pink snapper, baldchin groper, dhufish and samson fish caught in a recent event.
“At times like this it’s even more important to take stock of our lives and look at how we are blessed.” Columnist Derek Goforth lists the three little things that keep him going.
Derek Goforth
Northampton Shire has outlined how it will spend $490,000 on local projects under a Federal Government stimulus fund.
Adam Poulsen
“What insanity would induce me to think that, at the age of 60, it would be a great time to start exercising?” Columnist Raelene Hall has a “brain short-circuit” and joins an online exercise group.
Raelene Hall
Stand up paddleboarding guns from across the State flocked to Geraldton for the WA SUP Surfing Titles.
The State Government is offering buyers discounted, development-ready lots in the Mid West and Gascoyne in a bid to boost the region’s economy and create more jobs.
The Dongara Men in Sheds group has been lauded after raising almost $100,000 for community groups and organisations by selling donated scrap metal.
Liam Beatty
A new container recycling program will open in Wonthella in early October.
“Now that everyone has to stay in the State there will be those who want to travel north and we want them to know they can come via Morawa and see the beauty.”
The WA Government has announced $1.03 million to upgrade infrastructure and amenities at a Quobba Coast tourism precinct known as “the Blowholes”.
“What a difference the recent heavy rains have made to gardens and to all agricultural pursuits.”
“The residents are getting to know each other, they sit around in different spots and talk. And then they start singing, it’s a really great time.”
Peter Sweeney
Food for thought from Derek Goforth: “You don’t need to punish yourself or feel remorse about your eating habits. Just listen to the cues your body gives. Eating for fuel but also for pleasure.”
A man in his 60s received minor burns after a home was destroyed by fire in Sandstone, in WA’s Mid West, this morning.
Gascoyne surfer Coral Durant added the under-18 girls’ gong to her national under-18 crown on Sunday at Flat Rocks.
“It didn’t take long to remember how tired little boys can get after a big day, yet how determinedly they will fight going to sleep ... Or how they snuggle when tired.”
Strandline Resources is in the advanced stages of turning its Coburn project near Shark Bay into one of the world’s largest mineral sands projects.
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