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  1. WA newsPremiumBeazley moves to close Blanco loophole

  2. Education PremiumCultural Responsiveness Professional Learning program

  3. Australian Idol Karratha musician Cody James makes top 30 on Australian Idol

  4. Council PremiumPort Hedland appoints new permanent chief executive

  5. LifelinePremiumSouth Hedland Bowls and Tennis Club receives $1.1m lifeline

The Hedland community has flocked to the new Kurlu Kurlu Wirri playground since its opening in December.

Community Hedland community flocks to new playground

The Hedland community has flocked to the new Kurlu Kurlu Wirri playground since its opening in December, with local children and families enjoying the space.  

Cain Andrews

The Town of Port Hedland’s latest Community Sentiment Survey has returned damning results, with Commission chair Jessica Shaw describing the findings as “one of the worst” in the country.  

Council PremiumPort Hedland community survey returns damning results

The Town of Port Hedland’s latest Community Sentiment Survey has returned damning results, with Commission chair Jessica Shaw describing the findings as “among the worst” in the country. 

Cain Andrews

Cane toads are a biosecurity threat to the Pilbara.

Toad invasion PremiumCane toads set to reach Pilbara by 2041

Cane toads could colonise up to three quarters of the Pilbara by 2041 if action isn’t taken to hold back the horde of amphibians, according to a new study from Curtin University. 

Cain Andrews

Active Citizenship Awards winners HARTZ Hedland Arts Council members Erin Nelson, Silke Becker and Richards Brooks, senior community citizen award winner George Pitt, community citizen award winner Shellene Remihana, and Amy Shinnick, collecting the young community citizen of the year award on behalf of her daughter Matilda Thompson.

Community Port Hedland honours community citizens of the year

Shellene Remihana, Matilda Thompson, George Pitt and HARTZ Hedland Arts Council took the top honours at Port Hedland’s Community Citizenship Awards as 34 new Australians were welcomed into the fold. 

Cain Andrews

The Hedland Little Athletics team at the 2026 Athletics West Country Championships in Albany.

AthleticsPremiumHedland Little Athletics Country Championships 34 medal haul

The Hedland Little Athletics team has come home with a record medal haul after competing at the Athletics West Country Championships in Albany.

Cain Andrews

Port Hedland mayoral candidate Camilo Blanco has filed a complaint against the Local Government Minister.

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Blanco files complaint against Local Government Minister

Port Hedland mayoral candidate Camilo Blanco has complained to both the WAEC and the police over comments Local Government Minister Hannah Beazley made on his eligibility to run in the local election in March.

Cain Andrews

Hype Run Club is coming to Port Hedland after huge success in Broome.

Sport PremiumPremiumBelieve the Hype as run club comes to Port Hedland

The free run club that has taken over Broome over the past year is now coming to Port Hedland, with its first group run to be held on February 21. 

WA’s Kysaiah Pickett, Shai Bolton, Callum Ah Chee, Bradley Hill and Lawson Humphries.

AFL PremiumPremiumNorth West AFL stars represent WA in dramatic Origin loss

The Kimberley’s Callum Ah Chee and the Pilbara’s Lawson Humphries were both in the fray during the AFL State of Origin return — the first time the match has been played since 1999. 

Question Time in the House of Representatives in Parliament House, Canberra. Dan Teehan Angus Taylor and Melissa Price during Question Time in the House of Representatives in Parliament House in Canberra.

Politics PremiumPremiumMelissa Price backs new Liberal Leader Angus Taylor

Durack MP Melissa Price has thrown her support behind new Liberal leader Angus Taylor after losing her bid to become the party’s deputy leader on February 13. 

Despite advice from the Local Government Department that he is ineligible to run for council, Camilo Blanco has had his nomination accepted by the WA Electoral Commission. 

WA newsPremiumBeazley moves to close Blanco loophole

Local Government Minister Hannah Beazley is considering urgent legislative amendments after Camilo Blanco was cleared to run in the Town of Port Hedland election despite being barred from holding office.

Cain Andrews

Hedland Senior High School hosted the first Cultural Responsiveness Professional Learning session for 2026, organised by the Pilbara Education Regional Office, welcoming around 150 education staff from schools across Hedland

Education PremiumCultural Responsiveness Professional Learning program

More than 150 educational staff from across the Pilbara gathered at Hedland Senior High School for the first of two sessions as part of the Cultural Responsiveness Professional Learning program

Phoebe Solon

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Grant and Alana Williams.

RACINGCommentsPremium‘Deeply confronting’: Top trainers open up on horror month

WA’s No.1 trainer Grant Williams has opened up on the ‘deeply confronting’ uncertainty over his and wife Alana’s suspension from racing, as the pair won an appeal and further declared their innocence.

Hayden King

Mandurah mum identified as Kwinana Freeway crash victim

TrafficCommentsPremium‘Loving mum’ identified as Kwinana Freeway crash victim

The horrific crash closed the freeway for more than 10 hours.

Rachel Fenner

Underground workers employed by Barminco.

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FIFO workers with no degree making more than $20k a week

Specialised blue-collar workers on Western Australian mine sites are raking in more than experienced surgeons, thanks to a gold mining boom.

Adrian Rauso

Junbo Shim, 22, had only recently moved to WA to work in mining. 

Courts & JusticePremiumBig jail term for ‘callous’ drug-crazed fatal crash driver

A driver who was fleeing police for the second night straight and had been awake for three days when he killed a young South Korean man in a crash in Forrestfield has learned his fate.

Rebecca Le May

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A creeping deluge of human waste has seeped into Perth’s Swan River.

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Perth water pipes hit crisis mode after years of neglect

Water Corporation is struggling to provide a basic level of service to customers amid a maintenance backlog of at least five years and urgent repairs including decaying sewerage and lead leaking into pipes.

Charlton Hart

Mandurah mum identified as Kwinana Freeway crash victim

TrafficCommentsPremium‘Loving mum’ identified as Kwinana Freeway crash victim

The horrific crash closed the freeway for more than 10 hours.

Rachel Fenner

A young man died on Valentine’s Day after the car he was driving slammed into a tree in Pingelly. 

Disaster and EmergencyPremiumPremiumValentine’s Day tragedy as man dies in Wheatbelt crash

A young driver has been killed after his car hit a tree in Pingelly.

Underground workers employed by Barminco.

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CommentsPremiumFIFO workers with no degree making more than $20k a week

Specialised blue-collar workers on Western Australian mine sites are raking in more than experienced surgeons, thanks to a gold mining boom.

FBR got something of a shoutout from the Reserve Bank this week.

Herd on the TerracePremiumPremiumKemerton plan is Carey and maintenance

John Carey may have been a tad ambitious about the future of Albemarle’s lithium hydroxide refinery following Thursday’s news the plant will be closed. Plus: A Perth tech company wins an RBA shoutout.

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Dr Carla Morkel.

RADIOLOGY CLINICPremiumNew radiology clinic to up the Bunbury scanning game

A new chapter in local healthcare has begun with the opening of Perth Radiology Clinic Bunbury, a comprehensive medical imaging clinic now operating in the South West city. 

Yousuf Shameel

Nathan Wilson, Pepper, Issy Wilson and Spray are together again.

Dog rescuedPremiumMiracle dog reunited with family

Spray, a staffie cross who doesn’t feel the urge to drink water because of an extremely rare brain condition, had her family in a panic on Sunday when she went missing for 18 hours.

Isabella Davis

Australian Vanadium chief executive Graham Arvidson.

Battery planPremiumAustralian Vanadium brings in global heavyweight

Australian Vanadium has brought in global industrial heavyweight Sumitomo Electric Industries to bolster its bid to develop Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s $150 million vanadium battery project.

Neil Watkinson

Question time at State Parliament on Thursday. Pictured is Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson.

EducationPremiumPremiumVocational training boost for three Mid West towns

Regional learning has received a funding boost, with Dongara and Mullewa community resource centres backed by the State Government to deliver in-person learning. 

A new heating, ventilation and air condition system is being installed at the Leschenault Lesiure Centre.

UPGRADES New upgrades will aim to improve air quality and safety

Improving air quality, comfort and safety at the Leschenault Leisure Centre’s indoor aquatic facilities is the aim of a million dollar investment by the Shire of Harvey. 

Rox Resources is developing the Youanmi gold project south-east of Mt Magnet in the Murchison.

Contractor engagedPremiumPremiumRox Resources advances $383m Youanmi gold project

Rox Resources has selected MACA Interquip Mintrex to build the processing plant for the $383 million Youanmi gold project south-east of Mt Magnet. 

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Chinese coffee giant Luckin opened its first flagship with premium drinks as the company takes on Starbucks Reserve.

CNBC newsCommentsPremiumThere’s a coffee war brewing in China (and now in the US)

As Starbucks sells off most of its China business, local rival Luckin Coffee is expanding into higher-priced cold brews and other drinks. It’s also expanding its footprint in the US.

Evelyn Cheng

China’s property market, once accounting for more than a quarter of the economy, has seen its annual sales volume halve in just four years.

CNBC newsPremiumS&P bets China property slump will be worse than expected

S&P Global Ratings has lowered its forecast for China property sales this year, barely two months into 2026.

Evelyn Cheng

Elon Musk's mega-merger

CNBC newsCommentsPremiumSpaceX primed to make Elon Musk the first trillionaire

Elon Musk’s net worth soared past $US800b last week after he merged SpaceX with xAI in a deal that valued the combined entity at $US1.25 trillion.

Robert Frank and Lora Kolodny

The plans were discussed at a “Critical Minerals Ministerial” in Washington this week

CNBC newsPremiumUS proposes minerals trade bloc aimed at countering China

The US on Wednesday unveiled new initiatives to mobilise allies into a preferential trade bloc for critical minerals, including coordinated price floors.

Dylan Butts

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There will be one very special fan in attendance when Sam Kerr leads the Matlidas onto Optus Stadium to kick off their AFC Women’s Asian Cup campaign — her baby son Jagger.

SoccerCommentsKerr set to play on Perth soil for first time as a mum

There will be one very special little fan in attendance when Sam Kerr leads the Matlidas onto Optus Stadium to kick off their AFC Asian Cup campaign - her baby son Jagger.

Jay Hanna

Albany, Kalgoorlie-Boulder and Busselton are leading the charge.

PropertyCommentsPremiumWA areas leading the regional property market boom revealed

Three regional areas in WA are leading the charge. SEE THE LIST

Caitlin Vinci

Rollerblade enthusiast Joachim Lanham pictured in Burswood, Perth, on Monday. Joachim has travelled from Sydney to Perth on his inline skates. Carwyn Monck

WA NewsCommentsCommentsEuropean rollerblader skates 5500km to reach Perth

A 23-year-old Norwegian arrived in Perth on Saturday after a 5500km trek across some of the country’s most isolated highways.

Fisheries Minister Jackie Jarvis comments on the new West Coast Demersal Ministerial Advisory Committee.

state politics CommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumPlan for recreational fishing revealed as demersal ban bites

A team of fishing and environmental experts has been appointed to help reopen recreational demersal fishing in 2027, as the backlash over a commercial ban puts Roger Cook’s Government under pressure.

Parts of inland WA are set to be battered by severe thunderstorms and heavy rain in the coming hours. 

Severe WeatherCommentsCommentsFlash flooding threat as thunderstorms set to batter WA

People in the warning zone are urged to prepare for heavy rainfall that could lead to flash flooding.

Liam Alexander Hall, 32, is the first person in Western Australia to be charged with an act of terrorism. WA Police

breakingPremiumAlleged Invasion Day bomber unmasked

An order to suppress the identity of the first person to face terrorism charges in Western Australia has been lifted.

Emma Kirk