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  2. COURT PremiumSouth West man pleads guilty to child sexual offending

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  4. COMMUNITYPremiumRevamped volunteer fire station one step closer

  5. HOUSING PremiumOpposition calls on State Government to unlock “vital” block

Comedian Urzila Carlson is bringing her brand new show to Bunbury next year.

COMEDY PremiumUrzila Carlson is heading to the South West

In less than two weeks after it was announced, a multi award-winning international comedian has sold out her first South West visit as part of a national tour. 

Rose Patane

A boarded-up Busselton social housing property that has since been demolished.

HOUSING CRISIS PremiumBusselton social homes sit vacant during housing crisis

Calls for greater State Government investment in social housing have intensified in Busselton, with 427 applicants waiting for public housing while 21 properties across the city remain vacant. 

Madelin Hayes

Bunbury Senior High School is among the 26 schools selected for the ECU program.

SPACEPremiumSouth West students join NASA mission to fight bushfires

Students from Bunbury Senior High School and Australind Senior High School are among 148 WA teenagers helping NASA develop technology to detect lightning strikes and prevent dangerous bushfires.

Seth Carter

Jamie Thomas and Bunbury RSL president Shaun Thomas.

REMEMBRANCE DAYPremiumBunbury to honour those who served this Remembrance Day

Bunbury residents will have the opportunity to pay their respects to fallen Australian service personnel on November 11, with commemorations marking 108 years since the end of World War I.

Seth Carter and Madelin Hayes

Peppermint Grove Beach has closed after a whale carcass washed up.

BEACH CLOSUREPremiumPeppermint Grove Beach remains closed after whale removed

Peppermint Grove Beach remains closed after a whale carcass was removed on Wednesday, with authorities warning of increased shark activity in the area. 

Madelin Hayes

Federal Member for Forrest Ben Small, Professor Cobie Rudd, Minister of the South West Don Punch, Professor Colm Harmon and Shadow Minister for Energy Dr Steve Thomas attended the celebrations on Wednesday.

EDUCATIONPremiumECU Bunbury campus celebrates 40 years of regional education

ECU’s Bunbury campus has marked 40 years of providing regional students with access to higher education, helping generations of South West residents pursue careers closer to home.

Seth Carter

The Shire of Harvey has confirmed community meetings have not been scheduled for this year but has said they will continue. 

SHIRE PremiumPremiumHarvey Shire confirms future of community meetings

The Shire of Harvey has confirmed community meetings have not been scheduled for this year but has said they will continue. 

Nominations for the AJ (Tood) Buswell South Western Times sports star of the year award are now open.

Sports starPremiumPremiumNominees for Sports Star of the Year Award revealed

After athletes from around the South West put together standout performances across 2025, the five nominees for the South Western Times AJ ‘Tood’ Buswell Sports Star of the Year award have been revealed.

Project Inspire participants with Australian cricketer Phoebe Litchfield.

CricketPremiumPremiumPair of volunteers earn opportunity to learn from the best

A pair of South West volunteers earned the opportunity to learn from one of Australia’s greatest cricketers in Melbourne last week. 

MLC Michelle Boylan opened her new electorate office in Treendale on Monday.

OFFICIAL OPENING PremiumMLC Michelle Boylan opens electorate office

Eighteen months after being elected, a South West-based MLC finally has an office to call her own. 

Rose Patane

Senator Pauline Hanson talks to The Sunday Times.

STATE POLITICS PremiumOpposition leaders ready to take over Bunbury’s red seat

Bunbury has been thrown into the hot seat as opposition leaders say they are ready to take over the red seat should a by-election be called. 

Rose Patane

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Dustin Gary Higgs was jailed in District Court.

courtsPremiumPerth speedway driver jailed for sexually penetrating child

A prominent WA speedway driver has been put behind bars after being found guilty of grooming and starting a ‘pre-meditated’ sexual relationship with a girl while she was underage. 

Melissa Sheil

A family have been left heartbroken after a house fire in Collie claimed the life of one-year-old boy

WA NEWSPremium‘Cot was in flames’: Toddler dies in tragic WA house fire

A devastating house fire in Collie has claimed the life of a one-year-old boy.

Hayley Primmer

Rayle Williams and Ashleigh Turner.

CrimePremium‘My mates are dead’: First responders reveal crash carnage

A catastrophic scene akin to an explosion of ‘metal and blood’ confronted those first on the scene of a fatal crash that killed two teenage boys and hospitalised two others.

Brooke Rolfe and Sophie Gannon

The luxurious St James house

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Aboriginal body silent on luxe Perth home that CEO lives in

A large not-for-profit Aboriginal corporation operating in WA’s north will not reveal why it bought a luxurious house in Perth that its chief executive now lives in.

Adrian Rauso

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Dustin Gary Higgs was jailed in District Court.

courtsPremiumPerth speedway driver jailed for sexually penetrating child

A prominent WA speedway driver has been put behind bars after being found guilty of grooming and starting a ‘pre-meditated’ sexual relationship with a girl while she was underage. 

Melissa Sheil

Yoga studio owner Laurel Green said she’d been excited to discover an osteopathy program was starting up in Perth.

EducationPremiumREVEALED: Year 12s get new uni options, including a WA first

Year 12s thinking about what to study at university next year have had a few extra choices added to their options.

Bethany Hiatt

The luxurious St James house

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PremiumAboriginal body silent on luxe Perth home that CEO lives in

A large not-for-profit Aboriginal corporation operating in WA’s north will not reveal why it bought a luxurious house in Perth that its chief executive now lives in.

A grandstand collapsed during the Red Hot Summer Tour at Coolangatta Beach on Sunday.

AustraliaThree injured in grandstand collapse at popular Aussie music festival

The temporary seating came down in the early stages of Sunday’s sold-out festivities.

Dramatic footage has captured the moment a passenger plane was forced to abandon its landing at Perth Airport in a scary near-miss.

AviationPassenger plane in scary near-miss at Perth Airport

Dramatic footage has captured the moment a passenger plane was forced to abandon its landing at Perth Airport in a scary near-miss.

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A lawsuit is brewing in WA's crop paddocks after the alleged failure in a canola trait is estimated to cost farmers millions.

Yield LossesPremiumWA growers exploring legal actions over canola yield losses

A lawsuit worth millions is brewing in WA’s canola paddocks after farmers raised concerns that a trait in genetically modified seeds had allegedly affected pod development and damaged yields.

Georgia Campion

Hundreds turned out for the public service to farewell Albany's longest-serving mayor Dennis Wellington.

Albany AdvertiserPremiumHeartfelt tributes in moving service for loyal Albany mayor

The city’s longest-serving mayor Dennis Wellington has been remembered as a loving family man who turned his passion for sport, politics and Albany into a brilliant life. 

Cameron Newbold

Insp. Mick Kelly with some of the illegal e-rideables outside Kalgoorlie police station on Wednesday.

E-scooter operationPremiumEducation ‘key’ to new Kalgoorlie police e-scooter operation

Goldfields-Esperance police Insp. Mick Kelly says educational awareness, proactive policing and offender identification will be “key” to a new operation targeting e-scooters and off-road motorcycles.

Rosa Griffith

Goldfields-Esperance police Insp. Mick Kelly.

Drink drivingPremiumPremiumRoad policing makes regional visit, targeting drink driving

The State’s road policing command completed a regional patrol in Kalgoorlie-Boulder at the weekend, targeting drink and drug driving during popular times that can pose a greater risk to the community.

Gemma Marie Johnston.

Courts & justicePremiumPremiumFormer Esperance councillor denies stalking and VRO breaches

Former Esperance councillor and One Nation candidate Gemma Marie Johnston has denied two stalking charges and 41 breaches of a violence restraining order.

The truck crash on Great Eastern Highway in Meckering.

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Four-hour battle to put out fiery WA truck crash

Firefighters have left the scene of a horror two-truck crash in the Wheatbelt after spending more than four hours battling an inferno that engulfed the vehicles and trapped one of the drivers.

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Attendees try out the new touchscreen MacBook Pro during the Apple Experience LA in Los Angeles, Oct. 28, 2026.

CNBC newsAt last, Apple brings out touchscreen MacBook

Apple announced its first laptop with a touchscreen will go on sale next week. The launch signifies the growing strategic importance of the Mac to Apple, despite it generating less revenue than the iPhone.

Kif Leswing

Since 1990, only nine days have had a larger jump in the VIX on a smaller drop in the S&P500 than last Friday, according to SpotGamma.

CNBC newsWhy the market’s fragile calm faces a major test

Markets paused their slide this week as the tech sector found its footing following an AI sell-off sparked by high borrowing costs and doubts over data centre returns.

Justin Zacks

By the 1950s, another technological innovation would come along and have a profound effect on women: the washing machine.

CNBC newsPremiumWomen may be at greater risk of AI job losses

The history of technological progress suggests that, as AI spreads, the employment impact will hit women more than men.

Steve Liesman

Amazon’s Bee Frontier device can be worn on a wrist or clipped on to clothing..

CNBC newsPremiumAmazon launches new Bee ‘personal AI’ devices

Amazon is releasing two new Bee listening devices as it moves further into the AI hardware market.

Annie Palmer

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Jean Rosina Hunt leaves Armadale Court House. Sandra Jackson

Courts & JusticePremiumWoman accused of poisoning colleague’s curry fronts court

Jean Rosina Hunt faced Armadale Magistrates Court on Thursday, nine months after the bizarre incident during which her colleague brought a container of curry to work and shared the dish with other workers.

Jessica Evensen

WA Police are investigating sickening viral video of a teenage boy being repeatedly beaten by a group of youths, including one wielding a large knife at an Ellenbrook dog park. WARNING: DISTRESSING FOOTAGE

CrimeVideoPremiumPolice arrest boy over sickening attack on 13yo at park

The arrest comes after footage was posted to social media showing a 13-year-old boy being assaulted by several other kids — believed to be known to him — at Coolamin dog park in Ellenbrook early Sunday.

Caleb Runciman

A woman accused of stalking and attempting to blackmail Greens senator Jordon Steele-John cannot be identified.

Courts & JusticePremiumPremiumWoman accused of stalking WA senator can’t be named

A woman accused of stalking and attempting to blackmail Greens senator Jordon Steele-John cannot be identified because she has lodged her own complaint with police accusing the politician of sexual misconduct.

Children had to be locked inside their classrooms in a primary school in Perth’s south as a police incident unfolded near by.

EducationWA primary school locked down over police incident

Children had to be locked inside their classrooms in a primary school in Perth’s south as a police incident unfolded nearby.

Malcolm Joseph Pages was fined after the Hillarys venue breached the Liquor Control Act 1988.

Courts & JusticePremiumPremiumPerth club at centre of UK rapper’s trial hit with fines

The venue’s licensee and manager were hit with heavy fines after failing to properly report 68 incidents over a three-month period.

Summer is knocking with Perth temperatures set to hit 31C on Friday — and barely a drop of rain in sight for the week ahead.

WeatherPerth heats up as thunderstorms smash inland WA

Summer is knocking with Perth temperatures set to hit 31C tomorrow — and barely a drop of rain in sight. But the forecast is very different for other parts of WA.

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