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Students at Djinda Ngardak working alongside chefs from Fervor.

Annual WA food festival will make you taste the south afresh

Ever eaten kangaroo? No you haven’t – well, not like this, anyway.

  • Max Veenhuyzen

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Little Tagon Bay, Cape Arid National Park, Western Australia

Search under way for fisherman swept from rocks east of Esperance

Searchers are combing the land and sea for the man, who was fishing with a family member in the state’s Great Southern when he slipped and fell.

  • Emma Young
A Boeing 737 National Large Air Tanker in action.

Pilots were initially trapped in 737 inferno after WA crash, report reveals

The two men miraculously survived the Boeing 737 crash, with new details revealing the plane was flying just 80 metres above the ground before it stalled.

  • Heather McNeill
Under WA laws prospectors can apply for exploration permits for minerals 30 metres below the surface on private property without notifying the landowner.

‘Not scaremongering’: Landowners fire back over WA mine exploration secrecy

WA Premier Mark McGowan says his government does not intend to change century-old mining exploration laws.

  • Hamish Hastie
Torbay resident Pip Tilbrook at Wendy Coffey’s 105 acre Elleker property near Albany.

Battle lines drawn as WA mining exploration pushes into country backyards

Eager miners are making a big push for “green” minerals in the state’s south, but affected residents are finding out just what happens if they try to push back.

  • Jesinta Burton
There have been a dozen deaths in as many months on WA farms.

A dozen farming deaths in as many months sparks WA work safety inquiry

A 24-year-old man died in the Great Southern region on Tuesday after being struck in the head when equipment he was using to tow a bogged trailer failed.

  • Tim Dornin
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Homes have been destroyed in Hopetoun.

Homes lost after lightning belt sweeps WA’s south

Firefighters were stretched to the limit after tackling 68 fire incidents arising over just two hours on Friday due to an intense lightning belt sweeping the southern parts of WA.

  • Sarah Brookes
A fire is threatening lives and homes near Bridgetown.

Homes destroyed in SW infernos as minister warns situation remains ‘dire’

A man is in a serious condition in hospital after suffering burns while fighting a blaze in Bridgetown as authorities confirm homes and businesses have been destroyed by twin fires raging in the south-west.

  • Sarah Brookes
The project would include a huge solar array and windfarm.

Asian energy players take second shot at building world’s biggest green energy hub in WA

The Western Green Energy Hub would comprise of wind and solar power over 15,000 square kilometres producing 50 gigawatts of hybrid wind and solar power.

  • Hamish Hastie
Perth is already experiencing heavy rain with the promise of more to come.

Perth misses wild winds as severe weather warning for WA’s south-east cancelled

A severe weather warning for the south-east of WA has been cancelled as the remnants of tropical cyclone Seroja passes by Esperance.

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