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.
Craig Duncan
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.
Olivia Ford
The Royal Flying Doctor Service estimates it would need to raise $10 million to build a Geraldton-based facility.
Matthew Paddick
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.
Jessica Moroney
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
With a promise to uplift Wheatbelt women, the Darkan CWA will host a mental and physical health event focused on nurturing the community’s welfare.
Hannah Whitehead
Farmers have been warned not to let complacency set in after Telstra and Optus announced they would delay shutting down the 3G network by two months.
Adam Poulsen
Virgin Australia has introduced the first new aircraft this century to serve WA’s lucrative fly-in-fly-out market and regional travellers.
Cheyanne Enciso
A Mid West farmer passionate about rural communities will represent the region at the State awards after being dubbed Rural Ambassador for Chapman Valley.
All West Australians living and working in the bush are being urged to check their devices before the 3G network is officially turned off at the end of the month.
Rebecca Turner
A newly independent WA senator has paid Kalgoorlie-Boulder a visit to round off her 12-day, 12-town regional tour after splitting from the Labor Party over the issue of recognising Palestinian statehood.
Anneke de Boer
Corbin Schuster is familiar with most “rural weather omens”, but the South Australian grain grower was left scratching his head after encountering a “helplessly lost” pelican on his landlocked farm.
Rex Airlines administrator have moved to reassures regional customers as Virgin, Qantas offer to help passengers on scrapped major airport flights.
Neale Prior
Thousands of passengers have been left scrambling to find alternative flights after cash-strapped regional aviation group Rex Airlines grounded planes and called in administrators late Tuesday night.
Neale Prior and Dylan Caporn
A number of shires across the Mid West have had an informal meeting with the local government minister, with rates flagged as one of the main issues.
