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Carolina Wilga’s 11 days out bush remain a mystery.

When police got word a backpacker was missing in remote WA, they were already out there looking for someone else

Carolina Wilga is not the first person to go missing at the edge of Western Australia’s Wheatbelt.

  • Hannah Murphy

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Carolina Wilga is recovering in hospital.

Backpacker needs to ‘gain 12kg back’ after ordeal in WA outback

Wilga has been inundated with a sorely needed pile of food arriving to her hospital bed in Perth after spending 11 nights lost in the Australian bush.

  • Holly Thompson
Bimbijy Station’s Tania Henley found German backpacker Carolina Wilga in WA’s outback.

‘It was meant to be’: Backpacker’s rescuer describes miracle moment on remote WA road

Tania Henley was returning from a trip to Beacon in WA’s Wheatbelt when the waifish figure of a missing backpacker appeared on the side of the remote road.

  • Cameron Myles
Carolina Wilga

‘Sheer luck’: How German backpacker Carolina Wilga survived in the WA outback

Carolina Wilga spent nearly two weeks exposed to the elements with minimal food and water, seeking shelter where possible including in a cave. 

  • Holly Thompson
Black cockatoos are in dire straits across WA.

Carnaby’s carnage laid bare in ongoing fallout from WA’s horror summer

Those on the frontlines of the battle to save WA’s best-loved bird have revealed new details – and new ideas.

  • Emma Young
Black cockatoos are in dire straits across WA.

People ‘just picking up’ starving WA cockatoos as burglars target nests

At what point does a pet become a pest? Meanwhile, here’s why one of Perth’s foremost black cockatoo rehab figures is saying he’s ‘never seen anything like it’.

  • Emma Young
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Woman holding We Are Closed sign.

The Perth suburbs where small businesses are struggling (and where they thrive in WA)

Small businesses in regional WA suburbs are thriving, whilst those closer to Perth are struggling to operate longer than a year. Here’s why.

  • Holly Thompson
Two women died.

Man charged over Wheatbelt crash that left two women dead

Emergency services were called to the scene north of Cooljarloo.

  • Claire Ottaviano
Wind farms are operating in the Wheatbelt, including the largest Collgar facility near Merredin, but many more are needed as WA prepares to switch off coal-fired power.

Wheatbelt renewable energy projects fail to clear planning hurdles

A wind farm backed by Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue and a hydrogen start-up chaired by ex-Woodside boss Peter Coleman have both failed to get planning approvals.

  • Peter Milne
There’s no sign of Perth’s house price growth slowing in the near term.

Perth stays the course as home values surge month-on-month

Perth home values rose more than $11,000 in January, continuing the capital’s trend of prices rising by more than 1 per cent a month, according to a new report released on Thursday.

  • Sarah Brookes

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