Nationals leader Shane Love says the result in Geraldton shows a shift in mindset for the community, but the local candidate says she’s holding off on declaring victory.
Matthew Paddick
The day after her party’s election thumping, Libby Mettam appears resigned to handing the reins over to a newcomer.
Dylan Caporn and Caleb Runciman
Albany voters will have to wait to learn the fate of their seat in the Lower House with Labor, Nationals and Liberals candidates neck and neck in primary votes.
Eliza Kavanagh, Georgia Campion and Melissa Sheil
The Liberals and Nationals need to put their rivalries aside, put their heads together and form a coalition of the willing to ensure a better standard of political debate for WA.
Jessica Page
Peter Rundle is on track to cruise to victory in Roe, with early counts showing a swing towards the WA Nationals after facing contest from Liberal candidate Marie O’Dea for a second time.
Cally Dupe and Hannah Whitehead
Opposition leader Shane Love appears to have fought off a challenge from former Nationals colleague Merome Beard to win the new seat of Mid West.
Cally Dupe and Kate Campbell
Bruce Rock-raised Lachlan Hunter has claimed the seat of Central Wheatbelt, with the safe WA Nationals seat the first to be called for the State Election.
Cally Dupe
WA’s biggest sheep show has proven this year’s theme, Remaining an Icon, a fitting tribute after thousands of people flocked through the gates of for two days of fun at Wagin Woolorama.
Despite only being two months into the year, Western Power has already forked out more than $1.5 million in extended outage payment claims in 2025.
Oliver Lane
PGA president Tony Seabrook confirmed that a meeting of creditors today had backed a deed of company arrangement endorsed by administrators from RSM.
Sean Smith
Growers have been moving their stock and machinery to higher ground to prepare for Cyclone Alfred, as heavy rain floods paddocks and cuts off rural roads.
Stephanie Gardiner
A farming young gun has returned from a wool-focused trip to China with a new appreciation of the importance of building relationships in the industry.
Harriet Flinn
Yealering contract shearer Tristan White hopes to use his role as a Wool Harvesting Ambassador to encourage everyone to have “a good go” in the wool industry and to promote more training for shearers.
Olivia Ford
A depleted Liberal party’s bid to return to at least opposition status will rest on the shoulders of Vasse MLA Libby Mettam as looks to no longer be the the sole South West parliamentarian not on team red.
Amber Lilley
The Nationals WA will look to claw back some ground in the South West at the weekend, currently without any representation in either the Upper House or Lower House in the region.
Nationals WA will invest $10 million for an MRI machine in Esperance if elected to government at this weekend’s State election.
Tegan Guthrie
Funding towards a multimillion-dollar worker accommodation project to address Esperance’s critical housing shortage is Nationals WA’s latest election promise.
Carwyn Monck
The two sitting members of Parliament vying for the Mid-West seat say they are determined to bring the best out of the region, as the campaign for the seat enters its final days.
When will the madness end? That’s what the Australian agriculture industry keeps asking itself after another brazen decision from the Albanese Government.
Rick Wilson
Australian farmers are bracing for disruption to their $1 billion-a-year boxed meat market to the US after Donald Trump flagged plans to implement tariffs on agricultural imports next month.
Telecommunications giant Telstra reworked its approach to upgrading a tower to preserve a decades-old osprey nest.
Georgia Campion
Western Power is still probing the cause of the devastating Arthur River bushfire nearly six weeks after farmers first speculated the blaze was sparked by a broken powerline.
China has announced it will levy 15 per cent tariffs on imports of US chicken, corn, and other farm products and 10 per cent on soy and others.
Staff Writers
The WA property was put on the market with a ‘walk-in, walk-out’ arrangement, with the sale including its massive sheep flock which has at its peak reached nearly 80,000 head.
