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Police pooch placementCommentsPremiumPolice dog Hank to remain in Broome

WA Police have backflipped on their decision to send a ‘highly valued’ member of Broome Police to Perth after outcry from the community.

Grace Hendry

In courtPremiumYeeda, ex-CEO Jack Burton face cruelty charges

The charges are understood to involve cattle that arrived at the Kimberley Meat Co abattoir — owned by Yeeda — with ingrown horns.

Jenne Brammer

Men’s FootballPremiumTight clashes prove fierce season ahead

Round three of the WKFL kicked off over the weekend, with an exciting round of games and an unexpected forfeit.

Grace Hendry

Women’s FootballPremiumExciting games as the season heats up

The KAMS WKWFL competition entered round three over the weekend, with the competition heating up.

Grace Hendry

YUCK CircusPremiumTaboo or not taboo is the question

After a snap lockdown in Perth, the all-female acrobatic troupe YUCK Circus are set to perform their first tour in more than a year and the pristine waters of Broome are on the list.

Grace Hendry

Men’s FootballPremiumCable Beach too hot to handle

The WKFL continued over the weekend, with season frontrunners starting to take shape and the competition heating up in the second round.

Grace Hendry

Women’s FootballPremiumClose games hint at exciting season of women’s footy

The KAMS WKFWL competition entered round two over the weekend, with the series of close games hinting at a fierce season ahead.

Grace Hendry

Camel IncidentPremiumYoung girl injured in camel accident

A young girl was hospitalised with a back injury after falling off a camel which was spooked by an unleashed dog during a popular Broome sunset tour.

Grace Hendry

liquor restrictionsPremiumKimberley banned drinkers register trail begins

Years of campaigning for a banned drinkers register has finally paid off for the Kimberley after a soft launch of the program at the weekend kicked off a “game-changing” two-year trial.

Sam Jones

Health AwardPremiumKimberley nurse takes out top gong

A Kimberley local who was recently recognised as the 2021 Rural Health Midwife and Nurse of the Year has told her story of perseverance in hopes of inspiring others to join the profession.

Grace Hendry

Housing crisisPremiumKimberley Child rapist to remain in custody

A Kimberley repeat child rapist jailed in 2018 for fracturing his partner’s skull in a drunken rage will remain behind bars despite serving his four-year term.

Tom Zaunmayr

Library labradorPremiumBSHS welcome support pooch Wellie

Six-month-old labrador Wellington helps Broome Senior High School employees and students to feel good, engage with each other and share positivity.

Grace Hendry

Tough timesPremiumYeeda mothballs northern abattoir, converts it to co-op

High cattle prices means it is not viable for the Kimberley Meat Co to open this year, prompting management to restructure it into a co-operative.

Jenne Brammer

Six month banPremiumBroome teacher showed students video with drugs, nudity

A former Broome teacher has been barred from teaching for six months after admitting he showed high school students videos featuring drug use, nudity and violence.

Bethany Hiatt

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Kimberley prison officer fined over inmate relationship

A married Derby prison officer who exchanged more than 40 love letters with a convicted sex offender has told the court she was suffering from post-natal depression and loneliness during the offences.

Sam Jones

On tourCommentsPremium“Feels like home”: WA rockers en route to Broome

The highly acclaimed band have played shows in Broome before, which Caravana Sun guitarist and vocalist Luke Carra says makes an attractive location with a good atmosphere during live performances.

Grace Hendry

Tight linesCommentsKimberley fishing: barra, pelagics bite as comp looms

This year 36 boats will head towards the main base of Cockatoo Island for four days of enjoying everything one of the most beautiful parts of the world can offer.

Darren ‘Dags' Cross

Founded in footyCommentsPremiumHow a Broome group is championing suicide prevention

Claiming the Life Without Barriers small organisation award, Broome’s ALIVE & Kicking Goals! Youth Suicide Prevention Program was founded in 2008 by the Broome Saints Football Club

Sam Jones

Paranoid driverPremiumDerby man’s HUGE fine for wild police chase

Latham stood before Broome Magistrate’s Court pleading guilty to six charges relating to dangerous driving, criminal damage and possesion of cannabis

Grace Hendry

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Urgent actionCommentsPremium
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The ideas to fix Broome’s rent crisis. Will they work?

Several of the ideas have precedent, mostly in the Pilbara which famously faced a housing crisis which left people having to sign up to a lottery to get a block in town during the last boom

Tom Zaunmayr

labour shortageCommentsPremiumWest Kimberley businesses feel labour shortage pinch

A survey conducted by Kimberley business chambers found businesses were unable to fulfil their workforce needs to meet current demand despite government strategies and initiatives during COVID

Sam Jones

Behind enemy linesPremiumThe HUGE 1.7m sqkm task facing Broome Lib Neil Thomson

The softly spoken first-term Liberal MP, pictured, is the only viable Opposition voice to the McGowan juggernaut north of Onslow and is one of only two new Liberal members in Parliament

Tom Zaunmayr

Pleaded guiltyCelebrated pastoralist admits to child sex charges

One of WA’s most celebrated Indigenous pastoralists has admitted to a string of horrific child sex offences believed to have taken place at the Kimberley station his family has run for two decades.

Cally Dupe

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New normalComments
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WA can be proud of resources sector’s COVID response

A year on and interstate travel can still be complicated but other than that life is pretty much “business as usual” for most of us, writes CME WA boss Paul Everingham

Paul Everingham