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  1. Remembrance DayPremiumWhere to be on Remembrance Day in the South West

  2. STATE POLITICS Premium‘I’m not going anywhere’: Don Punch hits back

  3. HEALTH STUDYPremiumNew study invites insight to menstrual health in regional WA

  4. EMERGENCY SERVICES FAIR PremiumYarloop to host emergency services fair

  5. Time capsulePremiumSouth West time capsule recovered

Bunbury Museum and Heritage Centre is teaming up with the Australind Family History Society for a new history project.

Family historyPremiumNew family history project launched in the South West

“What has your family always wondered, but never confirmed?” This is the question being asked as part of a new history project launching in the South West. 

Rose Patane

Nelson Clegg from Bunbury worked in Antarctica at the Davis Research Station as a Bureau of Meteorology technical officer.

ANTARCTIC LIVING PremiumApplications for Antarctic experience opened

A resident from the South West has had nothing but good things to say about living in Antarctica, as applications open in Australia for a rare opportunity. 

Rose Patane

Margaret Eardley-Wilmot has collected 170 scrapbooks worth of newspaper clippings.

OPINION PremiumNewspapers are some of the best history books

Newspapers will forever help to tell the stories and moments which matter and there are scrapbooks in Binningup showing just how.

Rose Patane

The crowd favourite Lion Train at the Preston Beach golf club’s Spring Fete.

SPRING FETE PremiumPreston Beach’s annual Spring Fete return

There will be something for everyone at the Preston Beach Golf Club on Sunday as its annual Spring Fete returns for another day of family fun. 

Rose Patane

Red division premiers Fever with life member Wilma Hunter and life member and coach Kylie Brandis.

END OF SEASON PremiumHarvey Netball Association wraps up 2026 season

The Harvey Netball Association wrapped up its 2026 season on September 14 with its grand final and presentation night. 

Rose Patane

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

SHIRE PremiumHarvey 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. 

Rose Patane

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.

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

OFFICIAL OPENING PremiumPremiumMLC Michelle Boylan opens electorate office

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

Syd Jackson.

FootballPremiumPremiumSWFL’s Indigenous legends to be honoured in All Stars team

The SWFL will recognise some of its greatest Indigenous footballers with the creation of a new Indigenous All Stars team, celebrating the contribution of Aboriginal players throughout the competition’s history.

Dianne Aiberti and Wendy Haines at the Harvey Connect 2026 Melbourne Cup luncheon.

MELBOURNE CUP PremiumHarvey celebrates the race that stops the nation

Australia’s race that stops the nation brought communities together once again, with those in Harvey dressing up and joining in on the fun. 

Rose Patane

Bunbury celebrate a win.

FootballPremiumSenior football will move exclusively to Saturdays from 2027

South West Football League senior fixtures will be played exclusively on Saturdays from the 2027 season, with juniors played on Sundays in a major fixture change for the competitions.

Jack Penniment

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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.

Regional News

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

WA News

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare said ministers had agreed to curriculum reforms to strengthen understanding of the evils of anti-Semitism and the horrors of the Holocaust.

EducationPremiumWA school reforms set to clamp down on anti-Semitism

WA students will learn more about Jewish history and culture as part of a national clamp-down on anti-Semitism in Australian schools.

Bethany Hiatt

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

CrimeVideoPremiumPremiumPolice 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.

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 & JusticePremiumPerth 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.

Jessica Evensen