The JD Hardie Youth and Community Hub was buzzing with energy on Friday, May 22, as people gathered for the annual Celebrate Hedland event.
Cain Andrews
Volunteers who dedicate countless hours to protecting and improving the Hedland community were recognised during Care For Hedland’s National Volunteer Week awards night
Phoebe Solon
Uber has confirmed they are gearing up for an official launch in Hedland.
An innovative training initiative in the Pilbara has allowed local volunteers to compress two years of emergency training into a single nine-day intensive course.
Six riders from Hedland BMX club are now off to the World Championships after attending the Australian National BMX championships in Shepparton from April 16 to 18.
Shire of East Pilbara President Anthony Middleton says the budget doesn’t go far enough to help the communities he represents in the remote Pilbara.
Celebrate Hedland took over the JD Hardie Youth and Community Hub on May 22 as the community gathered to showcase their pride for Port Hedland.
Rose Nowers Early Learning Centre in Port Hedland is set to expand increasing the availability of desperately needed childcare spaces in the resource industry hub.
The Pilbara Kiwis took home the gold over the Pilbara Roos at the Pilbara Rugby League Anzac Challenge and North West Gala Day on May 23.
The Pilbara’s best male footballers have been shortlisted for this year’s country championships men’s squad.
Laura Newell
Newman and Port Hedland are set to host two of the region’s biggest free community events, bringing together live music, family entertainment and hands-on activities across two weekends of festival fun.
Celebrate WA
The former managing director of popular burger joint Meet & Bun has pleaded guilty to a string of drug offences.
Jessica Evensen
Joondalup Health Campus chief executive Renaud Mazy has quit the top job after just two years at the beleaguered hospital.
Hannah Cross
A key contractor at the Thunderbird mineral sands mine is out the door, with the WA operation teetering on the brink of financial collapse.
Adrian Rauso
The Wheatbelt has been rocked by tragedy after three young people were killed in two separate crashes in less than 24 hours.
Troy de Ruyter
Council members voted 14-1 at their May meeting to change planning policies for three suburbs.
Sophie Gannon
Football icon Neale Daniher has died after a public and inspirational fight with motor neurone disease that lasted more than a decade.
A Great Southern town has been rocked by the death of a well-known farmer and passionate country football supporter in a horrific crash on Saturday morning.
Geraldton’s median house price has soared by more than $200,000 in two years, cracking the $600,000 barrier in the latest data released by the Real Estate Institute of WA.
Imogen Wilson
The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development is encouraging sheep producers to take early, preventative action to reduce the risk of pregnancy toxaemia and hypocalcaemia during winter.
Staff writer
Cath Tan is the last remaining privately practising homebirth midwife in Geraldton, which she fears could all be stripped away from her when legislative changes come into force at the start of next year.
Sienna Seychell
A passionate Geraldton local is up in arms the Mid West seems to constantly miss out on crucial funding and attention for tourism despite the region’s significant potential.
Social services provider Southern Cross Care WA is paying out almost $5.4 million to nearly 2000 current and former workers who were underpaid during a period of more than eight years.
Geraldton MLA Kirrilee Warr has accused the State Government of using local government as a “dumping ground”, questioning the need for councils to step in and get involved in housing projects.
The battle for dominance over the lucrative market has so far focused largely on the key US market, currently accounting for more than half of both Novo’s and Eli Lilly’s respective sales.
Elsa Ohlen
These are the three key areas where Russia’s leader would like to deepen ties and extract concrete pledges.
Emily Williams
Leaders say that they want to hear the honest truth about what’s happening but almost half of executives surveyed said that a lack of honest feedback is their primary concern.
Sophie Caldwell
With thousands of YouTube creators relying on the platform for income, many are turning to strategists as essential advisors on how to keep videos viral.
Alex Sherman and Zach Vallese
A rare lunar event involving the combination of two celestial phenomena is set to light up Australian skies this weekend.
Tia Clarkson-Pascoe
Due to security concerns linked to AUKUS opponents such as Russia and China, the West cannot name local businesses in Perth that assisted in rapid maintenance to a British submarine earlier this year.
Andrew Greene
A whole day of a popular festival has been cancelled ahead of the long weekend, as a storm set to be ‘one of the worst’ WA has seen in five years descends on the State.
The State is truly fortunate that the vast array of talent celebrated at Thursday night’s Western Australian of the Year awards have chosen to go about their work in our backyard.
A Federal Court Justice has likened the destruction and loss of land by mining giant Fortescue to Yindjibarndi traditional owners to ‘the death of a child’.
Six West Australians have died from the flu so far this year, with the winter flu season yet to reach its peak and the State’s vaccination rates considerably below target.
