Hayden Smith

Claudean Jonathon Williams is alleged to have stolen the SUV from a Kalgoorlie shopping centre where it was parked with six children inside.

Empty-nesters and retirees are among the volunteers who keep the Eyre Bird Observatory running in "a wild, special place" on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain. So what does it take to be a caretaker here?

Esperance police say a man was "set upon by multiple people" following a local football match, leaving him with concussion and lacerations to his head and face. 

A full-size Stonehenge replica on Western Australia's south coast is hosting a new winter solstice festival to boost tourism in the region.

With hundreds of jobs set to go following the closure of a local mine, the Shire of Ravensthorpe is pitching itself as a potential community hub to miners in other parts of the state.          

Travelling to Perth for medical treatment is becoming more costly for country West Australians, who receive the lowest fuel rebate in the nation and an accommodation allowance that would not cover half the price of the average hotel room. 

Farmers and young people have flocked to the school amid a national decline in aviation training centres.

Jonathan Bolwell's life is back on track thanks to a regional rehabilitation facility. Now there are calls for more rehab centres across regional WA, which has the highest average meth consumption rate in Australia.

The Esperance shire president has taken aim at anonymous online trolls who he says are spreading racism throughout the local community.

For many, being alone in some of the world's scariest surf before dawn is a scene from a nightmare. But for Jarvis and Cooper Smallman, it's all part of a family tradition of finding inspiration in the rugged beauty all around them.

Carl Jakeway and his wife did their best to get themselves out of trouble, but eventually activated their locator beacon and were rescued by police.

With the closure of the Ravensthorpe Nickel Project set to wipe out 330 jobs, locals in the southern WA town of Hopetoun say the community has the inherent strength to keep going.

Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals says the Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine will close this week, with 330 jobs to be made redundant.

Gary Paul wears fluorescent clothing most days. But there are still too many moments when the regional Western Australian feels invisible.

A popular and historic pub in WA's Goldfields faces closure over safety concerns, while the tenants say they are being unfairly forced out. 

Locals say the Esperance production of Les Miserables, a mainstay of London's West End for almost four decades, has revolutionised the town's theatre scene.  

A magistrate ruled that Paul David Mack, 53, repeatedly and unlawfully punched a teenager during an incident in Castletown in 2023.

The 29-year-old Victorian is facing a charge of dangerous driving over the incident in February, which was filmed and widely shared online.

The heartbroken son of endurance cyclist Chris Barker, 62, who was killed along the Nullarbor last week, says his adventurous father was fully aware of his pastime's inherent risks.

The son of a 62-year-old cyclist killed on the Nullarbor yesterday says his father died "doing something that he loved".

Advocates say indifference among time-poor voters and the emergence of local online groups is contributing to the demise of ratepayer associations across Western Australia.

A proposed subsidy for the "last-chance" cancer treatment that has put Geoff Nyssen into remission has again failed to get government support — a move specialists say is "unconscionable".

An Esperance childcare provider is asking parents to consider reducing the hours their children spend in care as it grapples with staff shortages and a long waiting list.  

Nicolai Bangsgaard hopes for a strong tailwind as he scooters from Perth to the Sydney Opera House, tackling between 60 and 100 kilometres per day.

Fourteen months after First Nations inmates at Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison covered his famous Christmas ballad, the singer-songwriter will visit them in jail.