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  1. HealthcarePremiumSouth West gains 21 GPs but housing pressures mount

  2. NetballPremiumManjimup win bragging rights over Bridgetown

  3. Telling TalesPremiumBalingup’s Telling Tale festival to return in July

  4. Council Preview PremiumShire to seek Talison funding for community projects

  5. Shire AwardsPremiumNational honour for Manjimup shire infrastructure director

The future of walk trails is being considered.

Regional trailsPremiumSurvey launched to shape Warren Blackwood trail network

Residents and visitors from across the Warren Blackwood region are being encouraged to have their say on the future of local trails. 

Serian Lockwood-Jones

Dairy cows at Bannister Downs.

Dairy PremiumBannister Downs Dairy celebrates Royal Food Awards success

Northcliffe’s Bannister Downs Dairy swept the competition at the 2026 Perth Royal Food Awards, taking home four gold and seven silver medals at the awards night in Claremont last Friday.

Serian Lockwood-Jones

Bridgetown Historical Society secretary Richard Allen.

HistoryPremiumAfter-dark tours unlock town’s unique history

Bridgetown’s streets will once again come alive with history, when the annual Bridgetown Ghost Walks return next month. 

Serian Lockwood-Jones

The Boyup Brook Country Music Muster has received a $30,000 funding boost.

Art fundingPremiumFunding boost for 40th Boyup Brook music muster

Boyup Brook’s milestone 40th Country Music Muster has received a $30,000 funding boost, helping organisers prepare for one of the town’s biggest annual events. 

Serian Lockwood-Jones

The antique fair will be held at the Bridgetown Town Hall on Friday and Saturday.

AntiquitiesPremiumBridgetown to host antique fair this weekend

Collectors and treasure hunters will descend on Bridgetown this weekend for the Antique and Collectors Fair. 

Serian Lockwood-Jones

Southerners' Tayten Smith takes a mark ahead of Boyup Brook's Benji Bleechmore.

FootballPremiumSoutherners sneak past Boyup Brook

Southerners denied Boyup Brooks first win of the season with a gritty win on the road by 15-points in round 11 of the Lower South West Football League.

Jack Penniment

Farmhand Laurel Attwell and Mel Booth with the rare unearthed white truffle

Gourmets DelightPremiumPremiumManjimup farm unearths white truffle in a WA first

A Manjimup farm has unearthed a rare white truffle in a Western Australian first. 

South West residents are being urged to ditch the booze next month to raise money for Cancer Council.

DRY JULY PremiumPremiumSouth West residents encouraged to take part in Dry July

This July, Cancer Council WA is encouraging South West residents to ditch the booze in a bid to support a good cause. 

Aria Laurent climbing the Gloucester Tree in Pemberton.

Gloucester TreePremiumPremiumPemberton’s Gloucester Tree welcomes back climbers

The Gloucester Tree was once again a hive of activity over the weekend, as visitors made the 37m climb up Pemberton’s famous karri tree. 

The South West has recorded the strongest GP workforce in regional Western Australia

HealthcarePremiumSouth West gains 21 GPs but housing pressures mount

The South West has recorded the strongest GP workforce in regional Western Australia, but health leaders warn housing shortages could threaten future growth.

Serian Lockwood-Jones

Telling Tales will return to Balingup for a one-day festival on July 11.

Telling TalesPremiumBalingup’s Telling Tale festival to return in July

A one-day festival will transform Balingup once again into a town celebrating imagination, creativity and storytelling. 

Rose Patane

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Billionaire party boy Laurence Escalante has been spotted living it up in a Northbridge nightclub just days after pleading to have his bail conditions varied so he could visit his mother. 

WA NewsVideoCommentsPremiumBillionaire Escalante parties with women at Perth nightclub

Billionaire party boy Laurence Escalante has been spotted living it up in a Northbridge nightclub just days after pleading to have his bail conditions varied so he could visit his mother. 

Hannah Cross

The scorched ground where the motorhome was engulfed in flames.

Courts and CrimePremiumTeen accused of murder over fatal crash identified in court

The 19-year-old has been charged with one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder over Tuesday’s night’s fatal crash.

Imogen Wilson

Simon Peter Carman, 45, was arrested by Thai immigration officers at Suvarnabhumi Airport late Friday, reportedly minutes before he was due to leave Thailand on a Jetstar flight bound to arrive in Perth.

CRIMEVideoPremiumThai girl’s accused murderer worked as mechanic in WA

Simon Peter Carman was arrested by Thai immigration officers at the airport late Friday, reportedly minutes before he was due to leave Thailand on a flight bound for Perth. WARNING: DISTRESSING DETAILS.

Caleb Runciman

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

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Disaster and EmergencyCommentsPremiumHorror car collision in Perth’s north leaves one dead

One man has died and another is in hospital following a horror crash today.

Kirsty Lichtenstein

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.

Troy de Ruyter

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

BusinessCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumRinehart 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.

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.

Regional News

A dredging contract has been awarded to Jan De Nul Australia to carry out the next steps pf the Pilbara Ports Zone 5 Bypass Channel

Shipping PremiumPort Hedland bypass channel contract awarded

A $50 million project designed to protect shipping operations at Port Hedland from major disruptions has moved a step closer, with Pilbara Ports awarding a dredging contract to Jan De Nul Australia.

Phoebe Solon

Boarded up social housing in Spalding, Geraldton

HousingMore joining public housing queue, but waiting less time

More people in Geraldton in desperate need of a home are being added to the public housing waitlist but the waiting time they face is reducing, new figures reveal

Imogen Wilson

The Gracetown beach access matting trial.

WALGA Awards PremiumMargaret River highly commended for accessibility effort

The Shire of Augusta Margaret River have been highly commended by a Statewide body, for their efforts improving beach accessibility.

Craig Duncan

The one-way and two-way designs for Maitland Park.

Project updatePremiumPremiumNew concept designs for Maitland Park to be ‘much cheaper’

The vision to transform Maitland Park has been narrowed down to two concept designs — one a two-way traffic option, the other one-way — but both will be “substantially cheaper” than the original plan.

Vasse MLA Libby Mettam railed against the expansion of WA's Containers for Change scheme.

State Politics PremiumPremiumLibby Mettam joins Containers for Change expansion criticism

Plan to expand the Containers for Change scheme to include wine and spirit bottles has been slammed in Parliament last week, with Opposition members claiming regional communities have not been “heard”. 

Rural Health West CEO Professor Catherine Elliott

GP workforcesPremiumPremiumMid West records highest level of regional GP turnover

The Mid West has recorded the highest turnover of GPs in regional WA, according to new data from Rural Health West.

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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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Maddison Robson pictured with her twins Milly (pink top) and Daisy, who were born nine weeks early. The twins are now 17 months old and still need feeding pumps 24 hours a day. Ian Munro

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WA mother fears her disabled twins will die without funding

A Gidgegannup mother fears her profoundly disabled 17-month-old twin daughters could die because of a lack of NDIS support. 

Claire Sadler

Interpol has issued a yellow alert for Western Australian man Jesse Bruzzese, 35, who is missing in Mexico.

travelInterpol alert for missing Aussie traveller

Fears are held for an Aussie traveller who has been missing in Mexico for three weeks.

Emma Kirk

Shadow Health Minister Libby Mettam said the latest revelations about Willow Horne’s death were deeply disturbing and that an inquest could independently examine what happened. NewsWire / Emma Kirk

healthCalls for inquest into baby’s death

Demands are growing for an inquest into the death of an eight-month-old baby girl who died at a regional hospital after a medical flight was delayed.

The Australian man accused of murdering a teenager in Thailand is being held in a harsh prison without visitors

CrimeVideoPremiumPremiumInside Thailand suitcase murder accused’s prison hell

The Australian man accused of murdering a teen in Thailand is being held in a harsh prison without visitors as CCTV shows him going about his normal day before he allegedly dumped her body inside a suitcase.

Four regional finalists battled it out in a live cook-off on Tuesday, with chefs given just 15 minutes to prepare and present their signature sandwiches.

FoodCommentsCommentsPopular pub crowned country WA’s best steak sandwich maker

Four regional finalists battled it out in a live cook-off on Tuesday, with chefs given just 15 minutes to prepare and present their signature sandwiches.

An alert has been issued to Perth motorists as fuel prices across the metropolitan area are set to spike to up to 195c a litre on Wednesday, after the Federal Government halves the fuel excise.

WA NewsVideoCommentsFUEL UP NOW: Alert to Perth motorists as prices spike

An alert has been issued to Perth motorists as fuel prices across the metropolitan area are set to spike on Wednesday.

Katherine Kraayvanger