Rockingham locals Joan and Sam Mason were married 70 years ago today and celebrated their long and happy marriage surrounded by family.
Ava Berryman
Rockingham mum Laura Firth is taking part in another year of Bravehearts’ 777 Marathon, starting in Perth on June 30.
On My Feet charity founder Keegan Crage is celebrating the organisation’s 10th anniversary with a new book telling the inspirational stories of Australians’ experiences with homelessness.
Port Kennedy local Irene Lamb took home the Excellence in the Workplace Award at the 2025 VisAbility Awards for her work as a dance coach for individuals with low or no vision.
Thieves are stripping safety from streets as the theft of millions of dollars worth of copper cabling contributes to lights out in the suburbs.
Rachel Fenner
The Peel region is becoming a prime location to drink some excellent beers after local brewers were recognised at the Perth Royal Beer Awards last week.
A controversial policy that allowed City of Rockingham councillors to use ratepayer funds to pursue defamation cases has been overturned.
Rockingham tour guide Monique Boucher won the FACET Golden Guide Award at the recent Perth Airport WA Tourism Conference dinner in Fremantle.
An Indian restaurant has been slapped with a fine over a filthy kitchen and dodgy hygiene practices.
After giving the initial sign-off to the $7 million Kennedy Bay jetty, the City of Rockingham is now recommending a halt to proceedings.
Rockingham Theatre Company has started a youth theatre group for kids aged 7-17 to express themselves through performance.
Approval has been granted for work to start on Wellard’s tallest building, an eight-storey tower rising from a carpark lot alongside a train station and tavern.
The 30-year-old man who died in a horror three-vehicle crash in the Wheatbelt is being remembered as a ‘loving’ father of three with a ‘big personality’.
Caitlin Vinci
Education Minister Sabine Winton has ordered the State’s Education and Care Regulatory Unit to conduct a snap review of WA’s childcare system.
Jessica Page
Perth’s median dwelling price has jumped $65,000 over the past year, with anticipated interest rate cuts set to further buoy the market.
Kim Macdonald
Veteran bikie Troy Mercanti is putting three decades of underworld muscle to work as a professional boxer in Thailand.
Ben Harvey
Hundreds of West Australian childcare centres either don’t meet minimum quality standards or are yet to be rated as politicians across the country focus on child safety.
Katina Curtis
A father was stabbed to death in his car on a Midland street in front of his young son.
Jessica Evensen
Eileen Bond — the woman who was Perth’s ‘It’ girl before the town knew what an ‘It’ girl was — passed away quietly on Wednesday night, bringing an effervescent chapter in Australian history to a quiet close.
There is little doubt Michael Walters will be remembered as one of the greats of Fremantle.
A man lashed out and assaulted two rehab workers after skipping out on parole-ordered detox.
Tegan Guthrie
Australian Idol auditions are open to aspiring Kalgoorlie-Boulder singers as producers encourage regional applicants.
Isabella Davis
The McLarty Pine Plantation has seen its maintenance roads inundated with discarded tires, old couches and piles of general rubbish as illegal dumpers target the area.
Craig Duncan
Walkers and swimmers at a beach east of Albany found a gruesome surprise on the shore — a mangled and bloody shark carcass missing fins and its lower jaw.
A Goldfields-Esperance man has pleaded guilty to possession of child exploitation material and remains behind bars.
Ambulance ramping outside regional WA hospitals skyrocketed to a record high last month.
The Federal Reserve has kept interest rates steady amid expectations of higher inflation and lower economic growth ahead, and still pointed to two reductions later this year.
Jeff Cox
The CEOs of TotalEnergies, Shell, and EnQuest have warned that further attacks on critical energy infrastructure could have serious consequences for global supply and prices.
Sam Meredith
Despite the continued fighting — with hundreds reported dead — global stock markets have sustained positive momentum.
Chloe Taylor
Chinese companies are so intent on global expansion that even the biggest stock offering to date on Shanghai’s tech-heavy STAR board counts the US as one of its biggest markets, on par with China.
Evelyn Cheng
Twenty five years after Christian Jensen, Hilary Smith and Jess Broad were killed by a poorly-lit grain train in the Wheatbelt, their families are still fighting for changes that could be life savers.
Cally Dupe
The dramatic rescue unfolded over several tense hours on Saturday afternoon.
Sarah Steger and Amy Cavender
Halfway between an underwater drone and a space rover, UWA’s ‘ocean glider’ has made some incredible discoveries in it’s 400 missions in Australian waters.
Parents have described their shock at opening the email with their child’s results to discover they had received a score of zero for creative writing, one of the exam’s four sections.
The Australian Border Force and WA Police join forces to target illegal imports of cigarettes into the State.
Caleb Runciman
