Emily jb Smith

A real estate agent says he has never seen such high demand from businesses for residential homes during his 27 years in the job.

Fortescue Future Industries’ global campaign to become a green hydrogen superpower will continue its push into Esperance where it claims to have signatures from “more than 50” owners willing to lease it land.

Michael Livingston believes city-based decision-makers are failing remote GPs, leading to unsustainable practices and shortages across the country. But he believes he has a solution — a model he calls the “rural generalist hub”.

Paul Gaughan has been the only paramedic working across the massive region for almost 12 years, treating everything from shark attacks to road crashes and farming accidents. But St John WA has recently pledged a significant staffing boost.

An Esperance grains sector veteran says an extra trucks could be on the highway each day during harvest to supply a power station and his grain drying business with LPG gas after the closure of a pipeline.

A years-long dispute about the location of a flagpole involving a state politician, her neighbour and the local shire has cost Esperance ratepayers more than $20,000.

The blueberry family officially has a new member, thanks to two council workers who noticed a strange-looking plant growing in a roadside reserve in rural Western Australia.

The WA budget pledged more than $60 million for government houses. So why, just before the budget came out, did it cancel a project it had already sunk $20,000 into?

A remote shire says the state government has a gaping hole in its multi-million-dollar strategy to protect wildlife from feral cats. It’s the legislated right for pet cats to wander.

Almost two years ago, the WA government allocated $100,000 to 12 organisations to buy beach and all-terrain wheelchairs. But many have hardly been used.