Kit Mochan

There is new concern from the WA tourism industry after claims that multi-million-dollar State Government relief packages missed their target, with many small operators saying they were locked out.

The coronavirus pandemic is understandably weighing heavily on the business sector, but there are early signs of green shoots as one state begins to open up.

The competition and consumer watchdog has launched an inquiry into whether tractor manufacturers are failing farmers who want the right to repair their own machinery.

Despite widespread closures of public libraries, pools and gyms — local councils say they have been left behind by the federal coronavirus stimulus package.

A lot has changed in the two weeks since Premier Mark McGowan said he had no plans to close the state’s eastern border, with WA now effectively divided into nine separate territories.

As city dwellers ignore government coronavirus travel warnings and head to their holiday homes to wait out the pandemic, permanent residents in small towns fear they could find themselves trapped and infected.

Tim Winton’s award-winning 1998 young adult novel Blueback will be adapted for the big screen and filmed on Western Australia’s south coast.

WA firefighters are taking stock of the disaster that could have been after a mega-blaze tore through a third of the popular Stirling Range National Park.

When a worker in a hazmat suit erected danger tape across his driveway and began extracting asbestos from a pit, an Albany father wondered why he wasn’t notified.

WA’s Attorney General says he went back to the drawing board on his long awaited draft farm trespass legislation following ABC 7.30’s investigation into the horse racing industry.

A sharp rise in water use has prompted warnings from a former WA state water minister that the Government may need to bring forward construction of a desalination plant, putting significant upward pressure on household water bills.

It may be convenient, but public health experts warn of the danger of convenient alcohol-delivery services to those who may be vulnerable.

A shocked botanical group says there are scenes of devastation at a WA national park after a government front-end loader mistakenly tore through a cherished orchid habitat.

The owners of the mothballed Ravensthorpe nickel mine in WA’s south-east, say they will move to re-open the site if surging demand for the metal continues.

The owners of the mothballed Ravensthorpe nickel mine in WA's south-east, say they will move to re-open the site if surging demand for the metal continues.

The weather serves as both a great unifier and obsession for most Australians and now the Bureau of Meteorology is about to bring in the next generation of online forecasting technology.

With a rapidly ageing population, few Australians have been left untouched from navigating the vast and often complicated aged-care system — be it for a parent, partner or themselves.

Everyone’s familiar with slow internet or mobile-phone dropouts but for the nation’s farmers — often living well beyond the range of fibre optic cables and phone towers — the stakes are a lot higher.

It was the big idea that could have been a huge success or an expensive disaster, but more than 20 years later this little community is still reaping the benefits of a bold decision.

A holiday house in the middle of a beautiful forest may sound wonderful, but what if your favourite isolated retreat became a bushfire death trap?