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  1. BasketballPremiumBanks joins Buccs ranks as first import signing of 2026

  2. CricketPremiumThat’s a wrap: Women’s T20 season in review

  3. Basketball PremiumPumas sign off undefeated season with a grand final victory

  4. Basketball PremiumPumas hunt down first-time grand finalists to claim title

  5. Community and cultureRound the world ticket fix at Geraldton’s Harmony Festival

Midwife Kate Cadd cares for a newborn baby at St John of God Geraldton Hospital.

HealthcarePremiumSJOG Gero hospital to benefit from $1.5m Telethon boost

Part of $1.5 million in Telethon funding will give St John of God Geraldton hospital and its paediatric patients a welcome boost for programs and equipment.

Imogen Wilson

Geraldton's women's water polo team.

Water PoloPremiumGeraldton women claim four-peat at country championships

Geraldton women again proved the benchmark of country water polo, delivering when it mattered most to secure a fourth straight crown at the WA Country Championships held in Port Hedland on the weekend. 

Derek Goforth

A 60-year-old Geraldton man is facing more than a dozen charges.

Courts & JusticePremiumWA man facing string of child sex doll charges

A 60-year-old man is facing more than a dozen charges of possessing a child-like sex doll and child exploitation material.

Kate Campbell

Geraldton first-homebuyers are having to save for an average of 40 years to pay a deposit.

Savings squeezePremiumTime to save to get foot in housing market blows out

Prospective first-homebuyers in the Mid West are having to save for almost three-and-a-half years to afford a deposit to enter the property market.

Kate Campbell

Tobacco and vapes seized in raids on retailers in Geraldton and Kalbarri,

Up in smokePremiumMid West retailers ‘on notice’ after tobacco, vape raids

Mid West retailers were busted this week when a series of raids targeting the illegal tobacco trade netted a massive haul of almost 100,000 cigarettes and more than 800 vapes.

Kate Campbell

Blaze Under 18s has claimed its fourth straight Bat Cave title.

Softball PremiumBlaze bags four-peat in long weekend softball tournament

Even though it was a general bye round for the Geraldton Softball Association, Geraldton athletes were still very much in action across Western Australia, competing across three major tournaments last weekend.

Rebecca Ruthven

Round 19 feature race winner and championship leader Dayne Kingshott.

MotorsportPremiumPremiumKingshott slingshots ahead in Sprintcars championship battle

Maddington Toyota Sprintcars series made its debut on the dirt track of Geraldton City Speedway this weekend, with Bunbury driver Dayne Kingshott extending his championship lead with a win on Sunday night. 

A 60-year-old Geraldton man is facing more than a dozen charges.

Courts & JusticePremiumPremiumWA man facing string of child sex doll charges

A 60-year-old man is facing more than a dozen charges of possessing a child-like sex doll and child exploitation material.

Wanderers have won the last five Young Motors Women’s T20 titles.

CricketPremiumPremiumThat’s a wrap: Women’s T20 season in review

The 2025-26 Young Motors Women’s T20 cricket season had many highlights throughout the season, but did little to stray from the script as Wanderers claimed their fifth title. Victor Tanti reviews the season.

Midwife Kate Cadd cares for a newborn baby at St John of God Geraldton Hospital.

HealthcarePremiumSJOG Gero hospital to benefit from $1.5m Telethon boost

Part of $1.5 million in Telethon funding will give St John of God Geraldton hospital and its paediatric patients a welcome boost for programs and equipment.

Imogen Wilson

Stow Gardens.

CouncilPremiumChurch foreshore event reinstated after heated debate

The City of Greater Geraldton has backtracked on a decision to object to a three-day festival in Stow Gardens after a passionate debate at last Tuesday’s council meeting.

Sally Q Davies

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The parents of Cleo Smith — the young girl who was kidnapped from a WA campsite and held for 18 days — have closed the door on a difficult chapter in their lives.

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Cleo Smith family’s major life update years after kidnapping

The family of the young girl who was abducted from a WA campsite and held for 18 days have closed the door on a difficult chapter.

Kim Macdonald

Hailee Hildebrand was allowed out on day release, only four days after another suicide attempt inside the hospital’s youth mental health ward.

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Grieving mum’s plea: ‘They were meant to save her’

Stacey Hildebrandt is brokenhearted but insists she wants change — not sympathy — in the wake of her daughter’s suicide while she was an inpatient at Fiona Stanley Hospital.

Jessica Page

Laurence Escalante arrives at the Perth Magistrates Court today. Michael Wilson

Courts & JusticePremiumDramatic scenes as billionaire faces nine new drug charges

Perth billionaire Laurence Escalante has been hit with a raft of new criminal charges as his minder clashed with media outside court in dramatic scenes.

Rebecca Le May

One of seven people charged over a massive cocaine haul found stashed inside a bulk carrier off Perth has had his charge dropped.

Courts & JusticePremiumNew twist as epic trial looms after huge drug bust off WA

One of seven people charged over a massive cocaine haul found stashed inside a bulk carrier off Perth has had his charge dropped.

Rebecca Le May

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The parents of Cleo Smith — the young girl who was kidnapped from a WA campsite and held for 18 days — have closed the door on a difficult chapter in their lives.

The West Australian exclusive
The West Australian exclusive
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The West Australian exclusive
Cleo Smith family’s major life update years after kidnapping

The family of the young girl who was abducted from a WA campsite and held for 18 days have closed the door on a difficult chapter.

Kim Macdonald

Zach Merrett and Lachie Neale will be fascinating to watch this season.

AFLVideoCommentsPremium2026’s biggest AFL storylines: Neale, Merrett, rules & more

From Neale to Nasiah, and from Butters to wantaway Bombers - these are some of the most interesting plots to stay across as the 2026 season gets underway.

Samantha Rogers

Forensic Police examine a track beside Finke Bend Yanchep.

PolicePremiumPremiumYoung man found dead in bushland, police launch murder probe

Homicide detectives are investigating after a man was found dead in bushland near Yanchep.

Brianna Throssell is set to be married down south.

LifestyleCommentsCommentsMajor life update for WA Olympic star Brianna Throssell

The West Aussie’s journey back to full fitness even threatened to derail the biggest day in her personal life.

When David Henke gets the call about an entangled whale, he knows it could take anywhere from a few hours to several days before the semi-truck-sized mammals can be set free.

EnvironmentCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumThe WA whale-whisperers saving giant endangered titans

When David Henke gets the call about an entangled whale, he knows it could take anywhere from a few hours to several days before the semi-truck-sized mammals can be set free. 

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The Supermoon shot from Kings Park.

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Spectacular Blood Moon captured in Perth’s night sky

Australians have witnessed the last blood Moon for two years. See the photos here.

Ibanez Taylor

A 60-year-old Geraldton man is facing more than a dozen charges.

Courts & JusticePremiumWA man facing string of child sex doll charges

A 60-year-old man is facing more than a dozen charges of possessing a child-like sex doll and child exploitation material.

Kate Campbell

Bateman MLA Kim Giddens, Environment Minister Matthew Swinbourn, South West Minister Don Punch MLA and Collie-Preston MLA Jodie Hanns at Parliament House.

FOGOSouth West councils offered state support for FOGO

Dardanup will take another shot at its FOGO services now the State Government has sweetened the deal to keep the waste program running.  

Yousuf Shameel

Red-capped plovers attempt to nest among the tyre tracks on Peppermint Grove Beach.

COUNTER PETITIONPremiumPremiumCounter petition submitted to have the 4WD at beach stay

Peppermint Grove Beach took the centre stage at Shire of Capel’s ordinary council meeting on Wednesday, February 25 as the council received a petition to keep four-wheel-drive access to the popular beach.

Queenie van de Zandt will be performing in Choose Your Own Musical Theatre Adventure.

Theatre showPremiumPremiumChoose your own adventure show

Lovers of Broadway shows and choose-your-own-adventure stories can call the shots in a new performance coming to Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

A tree which fell on a car in Norseman is removed.

Dangerous trees PremiumPremiumNear misses prompt dangerous tree replacement in Norseman

More than two-dozen “near misses” during the past 1½ years have spurred the Shire of Dundas to remove dangerous trees and put in new ones.

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Iranian Navy soldiers at an armed speed boat in Persian Gulf near the strait of Hormuz about 1320km south of Tehran, in April 2019.

CNBC newsThe countries most affected by Strait of Hormuz blockade

A prolonged closure of the Strait would likely lead to a further surge in oil prices, with some analysts seeing oil crossing $US100 per barrel.

Lee Ying Shan

President Donald Trump

CNBC newsPremiumTrump insists trade deals safe as ruling upends tariffs

President Donald Trump defended his tariff agenda during his State of the Union address even as a Supreme Court ruling striking down his emergency tariffs cast fresh confusion.

Anniek Bao

Before the Covid pandemic, Chinese consumers accounted for about one-third of the global luxury goods market.

CNBC newsPremiumLunar New Year gives brands chance to win back big spenders

Luxury brands from Harry Winston to Loewe are going all in on Lunar New Year collections in a bid to attract Chinese customers.

Hayley Cuccinello

China’s property market, once accounting for more than a quarter of the economy, has seen its annual sales volume halve in just four years.

CNBC newsPremiumS&P bets China property slump will be worse than expected

S&P Global Ratings has lowered its forecast for China property sales this year, barely two months into 2026.

Evelyn Cheng

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Health Minister Meredith Hammat won’t guarantee that pregnant mothers in labour turned away from WA hospitals will be examined first and have ambulance transfers.

State PoliticsCommentsPremiumLabour no guarantee for ambulance transfer: Health Minister

Health Minister Meredith Hammat won’t guarantee that all WA hospitals will adopt mandatory examinations and ambulance transfers for pregnant mums in labour that are turned away from hospitals.

Caleb Runciman

Two huge Saturday Lotto wins have marked a WA Labour Day long weekend to remember for a pair of local ticketholders. 

LottoCommentsWA’s lucky Lotto streak continues with two division one wins

Two West Aussie ticketholders will be celebrating the huge division one wins.

Chloe Maher

Perth drivers are set to be slugged at the bowser on Wednesday.

WA NewsVideoCommentsCommentsPerth fuel prices to hit $2.07 a litre amid Middle East war

Perth drivers are set to be punished at the bowser on Wednesday with prices for petrol hitting as high as $2.07 a litre amid escalating conflicts in the Middle East that threaten to disrupt global oil supplies.

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CrimeMen torched home with family inside: cops

Two men have been charged over a fire that destroyed a family home and injured a woman and children just weeks before Christmas.

Arson squad are investigating a blaze, which caused damage to a car and home.

WA NewsVideoPremiumPremiumPair accused of setting fire to home as mum, children slept

Detectives have charged two men with arson after a family home in Maddington was set alight. 

A heatwave warning has been issued for the Gascoyne as Perth turns up the heat on Friday.

WeatherCommentsPerth to swelter in near 40C as heatwave grips parts of WA

Parts of WA are set to swelter through an unrelenting heatwave this week. 

Chloe Maher