Mietta Adams

With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save its 41,000-year-old language.

Women now make up 43 per cent of marine rescue volunteers in WA's north, despite the much higher ratio of men to women in the region. 

Christmas Island residents are once again sharing their home with millions of red crabs as they make their way to the ocean, with their numbers having "skyrocketed" in recent years.

Traditional owners and pastoralists in WA's Pilbara are hoping a government-ordered review into the usage of a significant aquifer will better protect it.

On Christmas Island, locals are not surprised if tourists' checked baggage does not arrive with them. Fragile supply chains on the remote Indian Ocean island are a part of life in this unique community.

A Kimberley man is sentenced over the unlawful killing of his cousin in a road crash while attempting to overtake and under the influence of alcohol.

The state-owned utility says advice that Port Hedland does not have enough water available to support major development was given in error.

More than a few spirits haunt the remote Indian Ocean territory, according to islanders deeply connected to its fraught and sometimes tragic history.

The traditional owners of Juukan Gorge have celebrated 10 years of native title determination and shared plans to safeguard heritage sites.

The oil and gas company has been told to cease decommissioning operations at two WA gas fields due to preventable safety incidents.