York - 6302

These WA community members say naming a new federal seat after a World War II nurse is all very well, but they want the honour to go to a born and bred local, not an out-of-towner.               

As the annual debate rages on, Ballardong traditional owners in WA's Wheatbelt will use January 26 to launch a three-day festival celebrating community and culture in collaboration with the local council.

A former employee and her ex-councillor husband have been charged with misappropriating funds from their local community resource centre.

A former employee has been charged with misappropriating funds from the York Community Resource Centre as the local council seeks to buy it from creditors.

As Australians prepare to vote in a historic referendum, the ABC's Voice correspondent Dan Bourchier travels to the north, west and east of the country for Four Corners and finds a nation grappling with its future.

Producers say a video purporting to show Australian sheep cruelly treated in Oman does not represent the reality for the vast majority of animals exported live.

A storm outbreak is set to hit broad parts of the east coast on Wednesday afternoon, with warnings of possible damaging winds and large hail for much of coastal New South Wales into south-east Queensland. Meanwhile, potentially record-breaking heat is building in the west.

New data shows regional WA is the most popular destination for those seeking to find relief from soaring costs; including the town of York.

Curtin University scientists launch a dummy satellite in a chilly field in York, testing technology to be launched from the International Space Station designed to protect satellites from radiation.

The Curtin University team will monitor the balloon's journey from York to Hyden.

A wooden combat spear lost in a fatal fight between an Aboriginal man and a white settler 160 years ago has been returned to its original owners, in what the families say is an act of reconciliation.

Culture war divisions emerge after a call from West Australian Labor MP Pierre Yang for a public debate on the term "Chinaman" as a place name.

After five fatal dog attacks in the past year, these Wheatbelt farmers are pleading with pet owners to do more to protect livestock in the region.

Locals in WA's Wheatbelt fear they will become a dumping ground for Perth's rubbish as the environmental watchdog recommends approving a new landfill site near York.

Large swathes of the country are set to shiver through freezing conditions this weekend, with morning frost forecast across nearly every state and territory.

Hundreds of farmers have attended meetings across regional Western Australia to voice concerns about a ban on live export. 

Pastoralists rarely say no to rainfall on parched country, but the timing could have been better for one family forced to miss out on an important event.

Archaeologists and geophysicists are mapping the ground beneath this cemetery to find burial sites dating back to the 1850s. 

A truck driver says an "ice funnel" formed before hail smashed rural properties in a blast that was compounded by heavy rain.

The noisy birds are damaging homes and destroying the nesting sites of other birds including endangered species. Former WA police commissioner has been called in, to drive the pests out of town.

Australians are moving further inland and further away from coastal capital cities, creating a rural renaissance in some "unusual" places, internal migration data shows.

A Wheatbelt reptile removalist says he's relocated twice the usual number of venomous snakes this summer. He's got some advice if you find one in your own yard.

More than 90 people have died on regional roads in WA this year, the highest year-to-date total since 2016. 

Telstra has issued an apology after prolonged outages in the Wheatbelt that have left customers frustrated and considering other service providers.

Damian Green uses native Leptospermum trees to generate Manuka honey, known for its anti-bacterial properties.