A portrait of the “Brahman Lady” Kathleen Lovelock has been unveiled, cementing the live export pioneer into the Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia Agricultural Hall of Fame.
Georgia Campion
A Newdegate grower said farmers are being left unable to plan for the seeding season and other cropping operations as diesel supplies dry up across parts of regional WA.
Amy Towers
An Albany business remains under a hazmat warning more than 24-hours after a fire was sparked in bags of agricultural fumigant and began releasing plumes of phospine gas on Wednesday morning.
Hannah Whitehead
A teenager has been flown to Royal Perth Hospital with serious injuries after crashing his motorcycle into a tree while travelling on Great Southern Highway in Cuballing on Wednesday.
Lake Argyle is holding enough water to fill Optus Stadium almost 12,700 times following heavy rainfall across the East Kimberley resulting in the closure of Pannikin Bay.
Cain Andrews
Perdaman has purchased 33 residential lots in Karratha’s Madigan Estate from the State Government to accommodate its permanent workforce and reduce the need for fly-in, fly-out workers.
The National Farmers’ Federation has called for calm amid panic buying of fuel and diesel stocks, after taking part in a ministerial roundtable in Canberra.
A service station in a small WA town is nearly entirely depleted of fuel, with workers counting down the hours before they have no choice but to turn away desperate locals.
Brooke Rolfe
Activists have been left reeling after the Federal Government gave the controversial Scott River wind farm the green light without a formal Commonwealth assessment.
Will Corbett
Wooleen Station in the Murchison took home a gong at the Qantas Australian Tourism Awards last week.
Kate Campbell
A trial to uncover underground water resources and improve security amid WA’s drying climate is underway across grain regions, with the State Government offering up to $20k for the “shared risk” project.
A round-table will convened to tackle fuel shortages but the State Government insists it’s a result of panic buying and that there’s no actual supply issues as result of the war in Iran.
Jessica Page and Simone Grogan
Wagin Woolorama, WA’s biggest sheep show, lived up to its reputation this year as being a showcase for excellence in agriculture.
Bob Garnant & Georgia Campion
A WA town rattled by more than 100 earthquakes since the start of 2026 is likely to keep experiencing the rumbles for several months, according to a seismologist who couldn’t rule out a damaging main shock.
Melissa Sheil
A Pemberton farmer has warned food prices could climb if fuel supply issues continue, as the Southern Forests region begins to feel the early effects of a global oil price surge.
Serian Lockwood-Jones
Farmers want clear communication, transparency and practical on-farm returns from Dairy Australia
Danielle Marsland
Wet and wild conditions are not dampening the Margaret River region’s wine production, with several wineries expecting measured and even yields with chardonnay and sauvignon blanc looking best suited.
Craig Duncan
A national regulator has revoked a permit for salmon farmers to use an antibiotic on the basis it poses an unacceptable exposure risk to wild sea creatures.
Ethan James
An increase in bushfires in WA’s freshly wrapped-up harvest season has triggered a series of workshops across key grain growing regions to gain real-time knowledge from farmers.
WA grain growers have a new opportunity to shape the industry, with five positions now open on CBH’s Growers’ Advisory Council.
Western Australia’s biggest family-owned dairy farm is taking its future off-grid, and it’s already paying off.
Madelin Hayes
West Australian shoppers could soon be forking out more at the supermarket, with agribusinesses bracing for higher oil and fertiliser prices to bleed into production costs amid war in the Middle East.
Cheyanne Enciso, Simone Grogan and Georgia Campion
A Main Roads report has revealed driver fault as the primary cause behind a notoriously dangerous intersection in a Wheatbelt town that has been the site of hundreds of near misses and accidents.
Local councils want wind farm developers forced to pay for community benefits, but have welcomed the State Government’s new guidelines as an important step forward.
Jessica Page
