Albany Highway has been reopened to traffic after more than 5000ha has been burnt across a series of fires that started in the Wheatbelt and Peel regions on Thursday.
Hannah Whitehead and Melissa Sheil
The mammoth blaze in Fitzgerald River National Park that has burned more than 145,000ha in a week has been downgraded to a watch and act alert, although residents have been urged not to return.
Melissa Sheil and Hannah Whitehead
A Ravensthorpe man accused of producing child exploitation material has been handed a new charge of distributing child exploitation material, and has been fined for possessing “disturbing” pornography
Jacki Elezovich
Emergency services rushed to the scene about 4.40pm but could not save the man.
Hannah Whitehead
A young pharmacist has taken a State award back to the bush after being acknowledged for researching and rectifying a prescription error during her internship up north.
Upper Great Southern Cricket Association’s top team enjoyed a marvellous start to their A-section country week campaign with clinical victories over Peel Country A and Geraldton A.
Claire Middleton
Great Southern Cricket Association’s top side enjoyed a B-section victory over Eastern Districts B in their opening contest at the CSBP country week in Perth.
A trophy discovered during a house clearance in Bolgart, northeast of Perth, turned out to be a long-lost shooters’ cup donated to the Katanning Rifle Club in 1906.
A man accused of lighting a fire that gutted his Gnowangerup home has been granted bail with multiple conditions.
Volunteer firefighters were battling to free a man trapped in his car after a crash on Lovering Road, near Hyden, in the Shire of Lake Kondinin on Tuesday morning.
Albany detectives are appealing to the public for information as they investigate the cause of a ”possibly suspicious” fire in Bremer Bay that started last Wednesday.
A blaze that has raged through more than 40,000ha of land and destroyed one structure near Dunn Rock in the Shire of Lake Grace remains out of control and uncontained after five days.
Tambellup’s officer-in-charge Mark Monaco was awarded the WA Police Force Service Medal in recognition of 40 years of service last week.
Amy Towers
Two people were seriously injured and flown to Perth for treatment after a horror two-car rollover near Broomehill in the Great Southern on Wednesday night
Cameron Newbold and Hannah Whitehead
Great Southern Cricket Association will be out to improve on their seventh-place finish of last year when they tackle another competitive B-section division at senior country week.
Cameron Newbold
An Upper Great Southern Cricket Association first XI team stacked with experience will look to return to title contention in the A-section of senior country week starting on Sunday.
A Hopetoun man has been charged with reckless driving after being caught allegedly driving more than 100km/h over the posted speed limit on Wednesday.
Melissa Sheil
The Great Southern Cricket Association under-14 B side competing at junior country week finished bottom of their pool B ladder, unlucky to be without a win.
Albany senior Aboriginal health worker Glenda Williams hit a major professional milestone this year, working 50 years with WA Country Health Service.
A woman who stole three cars from locations across the Wheatbelt, Great Southern and Esperance in three days has been handed a community-based order and fined.
Kojonup’s most famous musical exports returned to the Great Southern at the weekend, playing to a packed-out crowd from their perch atop a truck bed at Albany Racing Club on Saturday.
The Great Southern Cricket Association’s under-16 side made the pool A grand final at CSBP junior country week, topping off a successful week in Perth, but fell short of securing the title.
The dedication and professionalism of Great Southern police officers were celebrated at a police awards ceremony in Albany on Tuesday.
In 1925, two Perth men, Nevill Westwood and Greg Davies, and their Citroen 5CV Bubsie, became the first to circumnavigate Australia by car.
