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  1. WA news PremiumTown of Port Hedland shuts down rates objections

  2. Local Government PremiumTown of Port Hedland wins State award for inclusive program

  3. SciencePremiumWorld’s oldest asteroid crater found in WA outback

  4. MiningCommentsPremiumBHP and Rio on fast charge towards new age of electrics

  5. Community PremiumPilbara locals encouraged to ditch the booze in July

A change in WA legislation will prevent councils charging rates on “miscellaneous licences” on crown land

Local Government PremiumBill passed to overturn Supreme Court mining rates decision

The WA Government has passed legislation overturning a Supreme Court decision that allowed councils to rate miscellaneous licences, leaving regional communities to work through the financial implications.

Cain Andrews

Kevin Scott Oval where much of the North Pilbara Football League round eight action played out.

Sports PremiumNorth Pilbara round 8

Round eight of the North Pilbara Football League delivered a weekend full of close finishes, local derby battles and several dominant performances.

Phoebe Solon

Fish For All rally against demersal fish restrictions held on Thursday morning at Parliament House front steps.

State PoliticsCommentsPremiumWA fisheries inquiry set to go ahead with crossbench support

A Parliamentary inquiry into the state of WA’s fisheries is poised to go ahead but efforts to overthrow the widespread ban on demersal fishing are unlikely to succeed.

Oliver Lane

Kate Holling from NHP with Kenleigh Wilson and Mathew Wilson from Wilco Maintenance Solutions.

Business ExcellencePremiumPort Hedland Business Excellence awards

The best of Port Hedland’s business community were honoured at the Port Hedland Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business Excellence awards on Saturday, June 13. 

Cain Andrews

Police Minister Reece Whitby has defended the use of police air escort to fly accused criminals to bail hearings.

state politicsCommentsPremiumCriminals given police air escort amid court security crisis

WA Police is now being forced to fly accused criminals from remote communities to their court appearances after hearings were suspended in more than 20 regional areas over a security dispute. 

Jessica Page

Mohammad Sidiqi (Pilbara Meta Maya), Robert McGuirk (End Trachoma Rotary), Dr Mel Stoneham (#endingtrachoma Curtin University),Kerry Cornhauser (front - End Trachoma Rotary), Prof Christina Pollard (Curtin Uni), Jasper Lush (white shirt- #endingtrachoma Curtin University), Kael Wilden (Pilbara Meta Maya), Rick Corhauser (End Trachoma Rotary)

Community PremiumLaundry trailer targets remote health gap

Meta Maya Regional Aboriginal Corporation in South Hedland and its community celebrate new washing trailer, donated by Curtin University and Rotary, fitted with two industrial washer-dryers

Phoebe Solon

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 PremiumPremiumPort 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.

Town of Port Hedland is going ahead with proposed 33 per cent rate hikes for mass accommodation properties.

WA news PremiumPremiumTown of Port Hedland shuts down rates objections

The Town of Port Hedland has declined requests from the Chamber of Minerals and Energy and two accommodation firms to reconsider its plan to increase rates for “mass accommodation” properties by 33 per cent. 

Jasmine Lockyer and Teagane Ramirez in the Bloodwood Driver Training Program.

Community PremiumPremiumDriver’s program helping Hedland residents get on the road

A partnership between Fortescue and Bloodwood Tree Association is helping more Port Hedland residents get on the road through the organisation’s driver education program. 

Town of Port Hedland administrative building.

WA news PremiumTown of Port Hedland grants rates exemption

Two properties used to support local Indigenous people struggling through poverty or requiring transitional housing have been granted a rates exemption by the Town of Port Hedland. 

Laura Newell

Spinifex Spree Carnival is coming to Port Hedland July 24 and 25 at The Town Oval

Community PremiumSpinifex Carnival is coming to Port Hedland

Port Hedland’s much-loved Spinifex Spree Carnival is set to return in July, bringing a weekend of free entertainment, family activities and community celebration to the Town Oval.

Phoebe Solon

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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

Centurion chief executive Justin Cardaci (left) with Express Group founders Andrea and Mark Mazza.

CEOsCommentsPremiumCEO’s shock exit from family transport empire

The chief executive of a family-owned transport group is unexpectedly stepping down after nearly 12 years, triggering a search for a new boss.

Sean 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 NewsVideoPremiumWATCH: 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.

Georgia Campion

Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir has the Dockers firing like no one ever has.

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Motormouth Mitch: Freo's next $2m man who needs to sign

The signature which could cost Fremantle $2 million a season and the forward West Coast could turn to as they try to solve their defensive woes. Mitchell Woodcock takes a look at a big week in footy.

Mitchell Woodcock

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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.

BusinessCommentsPremiumRinehart 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.

Cheyanne Enciso

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.

The City of Stirling is investigating a Nollamara backyard development.

PropertyCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumPerth neighbours claim granny flat approval gone too far

The City of Stirling is investigating a backyard development after concerns a single granny flat approval has led to what neighbours describe as an ‘accommodation village’ in a residential street.

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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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Billionaire Andrew Forrest told staff criminal behaviour in the workplace would face the law. NewsWire / David Swift

BusinessPremium‘Unacceptable’: Twiggy threatens to fire staff

Billionaire Andrew Forrest has issued a stern warning to workers following disturbing allegations that has led to a class action.

Emma Kirk

Major crash police officer.

PolicePremiumProbe launched after man found dead, woman killed in crash

A major crime investigation has been launched after a man — who was assisting police following a traumatic fatal crash — was found dead in a regional WA hotel room on Friday.

Caleb Runciman

Senior Labor figures have backed Fremantle MP Josh Wilson after he was hit with a massive ban for punching his opponent in the face in an amateur soccer game last month.

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CommentsPremiumLabor MP yet to personally apologise to soccer punch victim

Labor MP Josh Wilson is yet to personally apologise to the man he punched in the face during an amateur soccer game which saw the assistant minister banned from competing for five weeks.

Cat breeder and WA teacher Michelle Harris was sentenced on Friday after a shocking number of ragdoll and Russian blue cats were found living in poor conditions in her backyard.

CrimePremiumPremiumWA teacher fined for keeping 38 cats in shocking conditions

A WA teacher and member of a pet breeding network which advocates for the ‘ethical and responsible ownership of cats’ has been fined for a shocking case of animal cruelty.

Margaret River is making an ambitious play for the global culinary spotlight, with organisers of Pair’d Margaret River Region unveiling a 2026 festival program they say could only happen in Western Australia.

FoodCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumOnly in WA: Popular festival renewed in tourism hotspot

Margaret River is making an ambitious play for the global culinary spotlight, with organisers of Pair’d Margaret River Region unveiling a 2026 festival program they say could only happen in Western Australia. 

Another suspected case of H5 bird flu is being investigated after a giant petrel was found on Roses Beach near Esperance, along Western Australia’s southern coastline. Picture 7NEWS

healthAnother suspected bird flu case in WA

Another suspected H5 bird flu case is being investigated after five giant petrels were found on an Esperance beach.

Emma Kirk