The Mid West’s biggest agricultural field day — the Mingenew Midwest Expo — has been cancelled indefinitely after more than 40 years.
Cally Dupe
Jessica Evensen
Australian Wool Network chief operating officer Rick Maybury has taken a step up and into the role of the pastoral houses’ managing director and chief executive.
Georgia Campion
Millennials don't have to mourn the loss of their beloved smashed avo toast, with lower production of the fruit expected to be short-lived.
Stephanie Gardiner
Former Fremantle Dockers forward Hayden Ballantyne as a new role on the agricultural field after taking up a role as a cattle agent at Australian Wool Network.
Farmers taking part in the field tours will travel to Yuna to visit Simon Smart’s farm and meet with farm manager Austin Raynor, before travelling next door to meet farmers Erin and Brady Green.
Bigger grain ships could one day berth at the Port of Albany, but it will take “several years” and more than $10 million in planning before the project breaks ground.
Australian farmers have not been in a rush to transition away from mulesing, especially in WA, but with growing premiums for non-mulesed wool this could be set to change.
Melissa Pedelty
The Australian wool industry is feeling a weight lifted after wool sales recorded a 5.7 per cent increase in price on last financial year.
WA farmers and the opposition have come out swinging at news the State’s $97 million biosecurity hub in Canning Vale is not running at full capacity more than six months after being opened.
West Australian research on sheep feed efficiency and methane emissions has been delivered at an international livestock genetics conference in New Zealand.
Caterpillar, the world’s biggest manufacturer of earthmoving machinery, will be celebrated in Kojonup for its centennial year with roots back to a US merger in 1925.
Bob Garnant
Two tiny town halls in a far-flung part of the Wheatbelt are being put up for sale by the local Shire.
Perth’s median dwelling price has jumped $65,000 over the past year, with anticipated interest rate cuts set to further buoy the market.
Kim Macdonald
Veteran bikie Troy Mercanti is putting three decades of underworld muscle to work as a professional boxer in Thailand.
Ben Harvey
A Baldivis childcare centre has been fined $45,000 for inadequately supervising a two-year-old child who was found alone on the side of a busy road after wandering away from a bush excursion.
Shannon Hampton
An inquest into the death of Cleveland Dodd — the first juvenile to die in custody in WA — has been told that Corrective Services staff had come to ‘accept the unacceptable’ in how they treated young offenders.
Sarah Crawford and Rebecca Le May
As West Coast farewell another premiership Eagle in Dom Sheed, long-time teammate and close friend Chris Masten has revealed why Sheed is so much more than just one kick.
Jake Santa Maria
Dom Sheed is happy to be remembered for one kick, but the retiring West Coast Eagle has achieved so much more.
Glen Quartermain
Judge calls for ‘sensible exchange’ after corporate jetsetter Mladen Ninkov wins injunction over Dalkeith neighbour Alan McKail’s new motorised patio.
Caitlin Vinci
The Federal Reserve has kept interest rates steady amid expectations of higher inflation and lower economic growth ahead, and still pointed to two reductions later this year.
Jeff Cox
The CEOs of TotalEnergies, Shell, and EnQuest have warned that further attacks on critical energy infrastructure could have serious consequences for global supply and prices.
Sam Meredith
Despite the continued fighting — with hundreds reported dead — global stock markets have sustained positive momentum.
Chloe Taylor
Chinese companies are so intent on global expansion that even the biggest stock offering to date on Shanghai’s tech-heavy STAR board counts the US as one of its biggest markets, on par with China.
Evelyn Cheng
Cally Dupe & Harriet Flinn
Melissa Sheil
Blair Jackson
Liam Murphy
Dean Hubbard
Rob Kelly
John Hassell
Kendall Galbraith
Hank Jongen
Colin Bettles
Jacki Elezovich
Sarah Crawford