Wreaths were laid and a minute’s silence was shared at the foot of the Kalgoorlie War Memorial on Wednesday morning in remembrance of Australia’s fallen service men and women.
Rosa Griffith
Billy Quirk is being remembered as one of Railways’ most loyal servants.
Neale Harvey
The Shire of Wiluna has taken a step towards furthering its efforts to hire more local Martu Aboriginal staff, as it prepares a letter of arrangement to the Waalitj Foundation seeking support.
Gold prospector Ray Attard could barely believe his eyes as he drove towards Mt Magnet and encountered an extraordinary sight — an outback landscape blanketed in white.
Troy de Ruyter
The Shire of Dundas has approved an $85,000 amendment to their annual budget to fund repairs to a crack in the Norseman Aerodrome that prevented mining planes from landing last month.
A change in Federal law could stop local women from being able to give birth in their own homes, a pair of Esperance midwives say.
Isabella Davis
An “impasse” between Shire of Wiluna chief executive Matt McIntyre and councillors has seen an external performance review on him received behind closed doors at October’s council meeting.
A concerned Kambalda resident says road trains are increasingly illegally parking at a non-designated road reserve on a T-section of Goldfields Highway, sometimes for days at a time.
A talented local digital portrait artist will host her debut exhibition next week, offering a vibrant show of works combining pop art, floral and Indigenous design elements.
Family ties and personal passion have motivated a local venue manager to work tirelessly towards revitalising the Boulder Ex-Servicemen’s Memorial Club.
Toby Cann
The Eastern Goldfields Historical Society is seeking the public’s help in adding names to the faces in this image.
Tegan Guthrie
The Wheatbelt and Goldfields have fared better than the rest of the State in a new analysis of the number of properties WA’s essential workers can afford to lease, although numbers remain critically low.
A volunteer for Goldfields Native Animal Care has outlined the dos and don’ts of snake season as warm weather brings an uptake in scaly sightings.
The Rotary Club of Boulder has raised a record-breaking quarter of a million dollars in its annual auction, which is set to make an “amazing” difference to local families and groups.
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.
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.
Norseman’s long-serving doctor and the Shire of Dundas are at loggerheads over whether medical services fall within the scope of local governments to fund, with the shire having removed support in 2023
WA’s biggest fertiliser company is making strides to double its liquid storage capacity in Esperance after quadrupling storage at its Mid West facility last year.
Georgia Campion
An Esperance stevedore and general hand has been named as the best in the west, winning the health and safety representative of the year at Worksafe WA’s 2026 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards.
A local Aboriginal-led cardiac imaging service was showcased at an international medical conference last week, demonstrating how telehealth technology overcame distance and staff shortages in regional WA.
An important health initiative reducing rates of chronic middle ear disease in Aboriginal and at-risk children through medical checks in the Goldfields and other regions has received equipment upgrades.
A project has given names, stories and headstone repairs to more than 5000 lonely and unmarked graves across Australia in the decade since it began.
A program to detect European starlings using artificial intelligence has kicked off along WA’s south coast in an attempt to protect grain, livestock and fruit.
The Kalgoorlie Boulder Urban Landcare Group is inviting the community to starting turning their trash into treasure, with entries soon to open for the 2027 rECOnstructed Recycled Art Competition.
