Every now and then there are people who reassure us that the world is a wonderful place — Harvey resident Jess Cook is one of them.
Jacinta Cantatore
At the midway point of the AFL season, journalist Jackson Barrett has run his eye over the six South West products playing at the top level this season.
Jackson Barrett
Harvey-born author Gail Jones has joined some of the country’s best writers as a long-listed author for the Miles Franklin award.
The collective noun for a group of school principals is called a detention, and it was well and truly a detention of principals that visited Our Lady of Mercy College.
A 28-year-old woman killed in a car crash in the State’s South West on Sunday night had lost her brother in a freak road accident 15 years earlier.
Bunbury’s Connor Blakely appears to be Fremantle’s specialist substitute, making a fifth appearance in the role during his side’s 46-point loss to Port Adelaide.
Western Australia’s first Tiny Houses initiative, set to provide accommodation alternatives for people experiencing homelessness was officially launched on Saturday.
A South West shire president has spoken out against the “relentless bullying” he has faced from fired-up residents over whether he served as a volunteer firefighter.
Young people in the South West are the focus of a new initiative that has received a funding boost of more than $150,000 to help re-engage them with the community post-COVID.
The South West Science and Engineering Challenge was held throughout last week, aiming to grow students’ skills and capabilities and is now a highly anticipated part of the school year.
Collie are beginning to turn their season around and are on the precipice of the South West Football League’s top five, after a comfortable win on the road against Donnybrook yesterday.
The Stirling Street Arts Centre is set to come alive on Sunday as people flock to Bunbury to celebrate WA Day.
The West has been given permission by WA’s Supreme Court to broadcast — for a limited time — the most extensive excerpts of the recording of Eric Edgar Cooke’s trial ever heard in public. LISTEN NOW.
Tim Clarke
In part two, WA’s worst killer confesses to shooting lovers Rowena Reeves and Nicholas August in 1963. Rowena revealed she bore the scar of the bullet wound until her death.
Tim Clarke and Joseph Catanzaro
In part three, Cooke reveals how he shot Swanbourne rower Brian Weir. He survived, but Brian’s brother says he was never the same — ‘it was murder’.
An unlicensed driver who killed a Mt Barker legend shortly after snorting methamphetamine at a petrol station has faced the fury of a judge.
Shannon Hampton
Feuding families have been put on notice by an Albany magistrate after two women were sent to prison for a drunken group assault sparked by family tensions.
Kellie Balaam
Local councillors at a major regional centre are under fire for handing themselves a combined $10,000 payment after sacrificing part of their allowances last year.
Michael Traill
A former East Kimberley College student has described his relief after being cleared of criminal involvement in a fire that burnt down a Kununurra school building two years ago.
Four officers from both the Pilbara and Kimberley districts completed their training this week with each district allocated two drones to deploy locally when they are required.
Staff from town and remote community schools made the trip to the Kimberley’s first Aboriginal educators’ conference at the Dampier Peninsula community over four days from May 17
Richard Goyder is 2021’s West Australian of the Year for his commitment to philanthropy. Now he has called on West Australians to embrace passion and tolerance — and move towards reconciliation.
Kate Emery and Brianna Dugan
Got a great idea for Perth? Think you know how to sell it to the world? Tell us what it is and we’ll make sure it gets heard by the movers and shakers ahead of the crucial ‘Brand Perth’ summit.
Charlotte Elton
A growing number of WA businesses are ramping up their apprenticeship programs to combat skill shortages, with about a third of those surveyed intending to take on more trainees.
Former CBH chairman Wally Newman has been unsuccessful in his bid to return to the board he walked away from 14 months ago amid controversy.
Nearly one-fifth of WA aged care residents have either refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or missed out on jabs administered by the Federal Government’s in-reach clinics, The West can reveal.
A State-wide manhunt is under way for a man who police allege smashed his way through a glass window and several homes in Como, attacking officers and two elderly women in his violent escape.
Sarah Steger
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