As another scorching summer approaches, South West landholders are invited to join a growing community network preparing to face drought conditions.
Craig Duncan
A Mid West mother will be forced to drive 300km a day — or up to 20 hours a week — in order to take her children to and from school next year after her youngest son’s bus route was axed.
Matthew Paddick
Families across regional Australia — from the Wheatbelt to the desert — put on their best red shirts for the launch of a day dedicated to raising awareness about the unique challenges of rural education.
Olivia Ford
A deal to allow Western Australian lobster fishers to again access China’s lucrative market will be worth hundreds of millions of dollars to regional communities, the industry says.
Matt Mckenzie
A second annual WA Rural Women’s Day event held near Albany was an opportunity for ladies in the bush to connect, celebrate and develop friendships.
Rebecca Turner
The Landor Races hold a special kind of magic, filled with dust, racehorses and people who breathe life into the outback, but this year’s event carried a heavier tone.
Jessica Moroney
There was something for everyone at this year’s Waroona Show with the sheepdog demonstrations a standout during the event.
Horses barrelled down the oval with ladies in their finest pushing them on to win this year’s Waroona Show competition.
Hosting yet another successful Waroona Show, Waroona Agricultural Society president Eric Walmsley said he had a “perfect day” on Saturday as the showgrounds swelled with people.
A new regional health care initiative from Fly2Health and Variety is taking flight across WA and touching down in Mt Magnet offering children across the state free allied health assessments.
The old saying that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence has never rung more true than on road verges in the Mid West, where record rain has resulted in an explosion of growth.
Patrick Cripps paid tribute to his hometown Northampton and the resilience farming life helped instil in him after being crowned the Brownlow medallist for a second time.
Jackson Barrett & Glen Quartermain
WA police warned triple-0 calls could have been affected after some Telstra mobile services were affected by a hardware issue, before it was fixed.
Joanne Williamson
More grants designed to keep trainees staying and working in regional communities are now open, with a one-off payment now available for businesses.
Holly Prentice
The Yuna CWA branch will be celebrating 100 years of CWA of WA with an event aimed at bringing the local community together and building resilience in the face of tough times.
Kulin was the meeting place for the annual Women in Farming seminar, which saw around 120 women from across WA come together to network and learn.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service estimates it would need to raise $10 million to build a Geraldton-based facility.
Event organisers say a gala dinner which raised $30,000 for the Keep the Sheep campaign was not only a huge success, but a great showcase of country spirit.
A sleepy Wheatbelt town has become an unlikely new ground zero in the war on bikies after WA Police demanded a local shire ban a Gypsy Jokers-run burnout festival.
Ben Harvey
The WA Nationals have begun a petition urging the State Government to address the conditions of roads in the Mid West.
Students from the WA College of Agriculture in Morawa have had a hands-on learning experience at the Perenjori Show through the farm skills competition.
Local volunteers are reiterating calls for a rescue helicopter to be based in Geraldton after the families of two Mid West women and a baby boy lost all three of them in a horror car crash.
It was all smiles for the hundreds of rodeo-goers who turned out for this weekend’s Coolgardie Rodeo & Outback Festival.
Carwyn Monck
Wild weather wreaked havoc and turned roads into rivers over the weekend with emergency services receiving more than 80 calls for help as homes across WA were lashed by storms.
Lisa Thomas