A man who was attacked by a crocodile while swimming in a popular lake in WA’s north has been transferred to Royal Perth Hospital for treatment.
Claire Sadler
Seven individuals have been charged with 33 offences as part of a police operation in Newman targeting “volume crime”, including burglaries and the theft of motor vehicles.
Laura Newell
The Town of Port Hedland will join the Australian Mining Cities Alliance.
While residents will not see their rates rise this year, businesses, fifo camps, pastoral leases and miners will all cop increases.
The Town of Port Hedland council has frozen planned fee hikes for waste and facility hire fees for sports groups while a review of the costs is undertaken.
Port Hedland’s 61-year-old Observation Tower is set to be restored and reopened at an estimated cost of up to $1.2 million.
Port Hedland will light up blue this May as part of Lung Health Awareness Month, with the Great Northern Highway Lumsden Interchange set to shine on May 13.
Always Good Nights events come to a close with performance from Perth band South Summit
Phoebe Solon
Sixteen industrial lots are set to be delivered in Newman as part of a $32m investment in Newman Light Industrial Area in the upcoming 2026-27 State Budget.
Cain Andrews
Hundreds gathered for the Anzac memorial in Port Hedland to honour Australian and New Zealand service members who have fought and died in conflicts around the world
Councillor-elect Adrian McRae has confirmed he intends to challenge the result of the Port Hedland local election in the Court of Disputed Returns.
Three Pilbara artists, Lisa Goessman, Ana Repullo and Jenna Pickering are in the running for the Jury Art Prize this year.
The defamation suit brought by former Port Hedland mayor Peter Carter against former Port Hedland mayor and councillor Camilo Blanco has been discontinued as of April 10.
Regional flight links connecting the Mid West, Pilbara and the Kimberley will continue to be funded in the upcoming 2026-27 State Budget to be handed down on May 7.
Twelve Indigenous people from across the State have been appointed to the Aboriginal justice advisory committee.
The Port Hedland Rovers will start their season this long weekend with derby games against the South Hedland Swans.
Danielle Marsland
Youth week wraps up in News with a youth week festival at Boomerang Oval
An object believed to be part of an American or Chinese rocket launch was spotted streaking across the night sky over North West WA on April 11, sparking much curiosity.
Liquor restrictions will be imposed in both Newman and Kununurra due to ongoing alcohol-related crime and harm in the North West towns.
An official sod-turning ceremony on April 17 marked the start of construction on a $21 million Seafarers Centre at the Port of Port Hedland
Road damage caused by ex-severe tropical cyclone Zelia have impacted supply deliveries to the remote community of Punmu, according to the Shire of East Pilbara.
A 58-year-old man has died after a crash in Mundabullangana.
The Centrals have claimed championship glory in a hard-fought Newman men’s basketball competition grand final, edging out the Ball Breakers in a five-point thriller at the Newman Recreation Centre on March 31.
Former Town of Port Hedland mayor and councillor Camilo Blanco has been ordered to pay the town $7000 by the State Administrative Tribunal for legal costs.
