From quiet acts of kindness to major fundraising efforts, the Shire of Esperance’s 2026 citizens of the year have proved an inspiration to the local community.
Jessica Antoniou
With childcare waitlists finally easing following the establishment of two new centres, a reputable local day care is throwing open its doors to encourage more families to join the centre.
Tegan Guthrie
A group of former Kambalda geologists have united to celebrate the diamond anniversary of a discovery which led to a nickel exploration boom in WA.
Mines Rovers and Kambalda have each drawn home games for round one of the 2026 Goldfields Football League competition.
Neale Harvey
Kalgoorlie-Boulder children have used sand drawings to tell an animated story promoting a research project into heavy metal deposition in children’s teeth.
Isabella Davis
The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder has welcomed its newest Walk of Fame inductees, with plaques honouring two legendary figures of the Goldfields city unveiled on Australia Day
Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Betty Loxton and Esperance’s William Faahan-Smith have been awarded medals of the Order of Australia in this year’s Australia Day Honours List.
Neil Watkinson
Despite authorities’ ongoing efforts to warn beachgoers of the dangers of stepping on to wet coastal rocks, a string of online posts has shown people continuing to ignore the warnings.
Ava Cassin-Roberts heads interstate this weekend for the National Pink Plate event.
Singles are encouraged to swipe left on dating apps and swipe right on real-life romance, ahead of a new speed dating event popping up in Kalgoorlie-Boulder this Valentine’s Day.
Kiara Reddingius has been selected in Australia’s Winter Olympics team for the second time.
The family of Mark Quinn are still broken-hearted 20 years after an explosion in a Leinster nickel mine took his life.
Kalgoorlie-Boulder and Esperance hospitals have welcomed Perth medical students this week as they begin a year of regional placement.
West Coast Fever will take on Adelaide Thunderbirds next month in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Nature enthusiasts from across the Goldfields-Esperance region have shared their incredible snaps of an aurora australis display caused by the strongest radiation storm to hit Earth since 2003.
Investors were unperturbed on Wednesday as Vault Minerals announced lower output across its Goldfields and Murchison operations in the December quarter.
Free-range chickens are treated better than prisoners at Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s overcrowded and understaffed prison, says the WA Prison Officer’s Union.
Consolidated Pastoral Company has agreed to buy Madura Plains Station, which when added to nearby Rawlinna Station will create “the largest sheep station in the world” at more than 1.7 million hectares.
Former Western Bulldogs forward Clay Smith’s leap of faith has landed him in the Tigers’ camp.
A record number of visitors have come to Esperance in the first six days of the year, after more than 200,000 tourists visited the WA south-eastern coastal town in the year to October.
Kalgoorlie-Boulder residents and visitors can now access the Super Pit lookout from the new entrance off Mt Monger Road.
A hessian sack full of old explosives has been dug up from under the back deck of a surveying company office in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
When Natalie Smart feared her one-eyed cat Ernie was about to lose his last chance at sight, she was prepared to try anything — but she never imagined a dog’s blood would be the miracle that helped him.
Western Bulldogs premiership player Clay Smith has been brought in as bench support for Scott Worthington.
