The Pilbara has once again been heralded as the ‘powerhouse’ of the State, with the 2025-26 State Budget outlining investments in health, housing, education and economic infrastructure.
Madelin Hayes
Funding that was promised to women’s health centres was missing from Thursday’s State Budget, it can be revealed.
Jessica Page
Tom Price’s Drive-In Cinema has just recorded its highest-grossing screening in 15 years after a recent revamp that’s drawn crowds back to the iconic outback venue.
Cain Andrews
When Imelda Yukenbarri Gugaman paints, she is passing on stories from her mother, with each brush stroke telling the tales of her country.
Port Hedland was bursting with energy at the McGregor Street Soccer Fields as eager players gathered for the 2025 Junior Soccer North West Championships.
The stunning landscapes of Yindjibarndi country are making waves in the world of fashion, thanks to a collaboration between Juluwarlu Art Group and Melbourne-based label Nancybird.
The rodeo is coming to Roebourne this year following a new cultural partnership between local Aboriginal corporation Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Foundation and Karlayura Rodeo.
An innovative STEM education program is receiving a major boost, thanks to some of WA’s biggest players in the resources sector.
Millions of extra funds will be put into a range of regional infrastructure projects to see them completed, the State Budget has revealed.
Oliver Lane
Three Pilbara trailblazers have been named finalists in the 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards for their remarkable dedication to community, leadership and social change.
The Karratha Kats came out clawing, overpowering the Wickham Wolves in a statement win in round seven of the North Pilbara Football League at the weekend.
South Hedland came alive at the weekend as hundreds of spectators gathered at Faye Gladstone Pavilion to see some of the region’s fiercest netball rivalries play out at the 2025 North West Championships.
As part of the announcement, borrowers will be offered low-deposit loans with additional progress payments to support builders and improve access to the new building style.
Dylan Caporn
Panthers got their revenge in week seven of Karratha hockey, bouncing back from last week’s loss to take down Tigers.
Vicky Pellowe fell through ‘every crack possible’ as she navigated the first few months of motherhood, resulting in a postnatal depression diagnosis when her daughter was five months old.
Rhianna Mitchell
A mobile CT scan could be the key to early detection of life-threatening diseases in regional patients, who currently have to wait weeks or travel to Perth for a screening.
Claire Sadler
House values across WA’s North West dropped 0.4 per cent in May, according to new data from property analytics firm Cotality — but a closer look at Karratha and Port Hedland shows two very different markets.
Woodside’s talks with the Federal Government over the future of the North West Shelf will remain ongoing after the deadline for a response on the environmental conditions was extended.
Matt Mckenzie
Two people have died in separate road crashes on Pilbara roads.
A new large-scale wind farm should be returning at least $100,000 a year to regional communities, based on trial guidelines set to be probed by locals who want new energy developers to pay their way.
Simone Grogan
About 800 Bechtel workers united with union spokespeople from the AMWU, CFMEU and ETU outside Woodside’s Pluto Train 2 Red Dog Village on Wednesday night – calling for better pay and working conditions.
Australian TV and film star Humphrey Bower, known for his roles in Blue Heelers and Queen Of The Damned, is bringing his adaptation of David Malouf’s classic An Imaginary Life to Dampier and Cossack.
Marine environmentalists are “really relieved” a German chemical giant has binned a salt project in WA’s north.
Adrian Rauso
Karratha is set to mark the conclusion of Western Australia’s month-long WA Day celebrations with a large-scale community event at Bulgarra Oval on Sunday, June 22.
