A property expert has likened Geraldton’s rent surge to those seen across WA during the mining boom, after a new report showed a 21 per cent rise in the city’s rental prices in the past year.
Matthew Paddick
Anna Cox and Jessica Moroney
The Geraldton Buccaneers are hitting the road as they face a double-header down south on the weekend against South West and Mandurah.
Fraser Williams
A woman who pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer has changed her plea, and will face trial for the alleged attack on Geraldton Foreshore more than two years ago.
Jessica Moroney
Vegemite, kangaroos, emus, the Sydney Harbour Bridge: There are some things that are undeniably Australian and fitting comfortably in that category is also the humble swag.
Derek Goforth
One lucky mystery person is walking around an instant millionaire, after a Geraldton newsagency sold a $1 million division one winning ticket from Monday’s jackpot.
Anna Cox
A WA truck driver has called for repairs to one of the Mid West’s main roads, saying heavy vehicles need better conditions to drive on.
A man who hit his partner in the head with a brick and threw a kids’ bike at her during a dispute over money has been jailed.
The City of Greater Geraldton wants Main Roads to take ownership of part of a local road due to heavy vehicle traffic in the town’s west.
The people of the Mid West are many things, but extraordinarily patient and resilient would have to rank right up there.
The State Government is looking to boost the regional tourism and hospitality sectors, with Geraldton among the regional towns to receive training workshops.
They may not be in the same league as Leederville or Mount Lawley yet, but it’s only a matter of time before these Perth suburbs undergo the same trendy transformation. SEE THE SURPRISING LIST.
Raquel de Brito
Roger Cook has slammed the mindless climate pests who targeted his electorate office overnight.
Selling an investment property you bought decades ago can reap you a massive windfall. But to avoid the taxman, you’ll need to find a way to shuffle the proceeds out of his reach. Here’s a couple of options.
Nick Bruining
Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas wants Perth to host a world-famous music festival to rival the renowned Coachella in the US.
Joe Spagnolo
Unprecedented rain has caused havoc in Perth’s northern suburbs with flash flooding leaving people trapped in their cars, homes damaged, and hundreds without power.
Claire Sadler and Artemisia Blythe
A former WA reporter is lucky to be alive after being shot at in Gaza.
22 years to the week since his West Coast debut, Chris Judd was once again back in the Eagles fold as he took in training from the Optus Stadium sidelines. SEE THE PICS
A 47-year-old man has died after a horror crash in Perth’s southern suburbs.
The presence of a dangerous amoeba has been detected in a popular swimming hole in WA and the community is urged to avoid swimming there.
Craig Duncan
Albany Highway is experiencing delays after a man in his 20s was seriously injured in a rollover on Thursday afternoon.
Daniel Rooney and Eliza Kavanagh
Aboriginal Rangers have documented an exciting encounter with a rare mole deep in the Western Desert.
A misadventure which led to a Mid West man in his 30s being flown to Perth after a suspected near-drowning on the beach is believed to be linked to alcohol.
Cossack, a former pearling town in the Pilbara, is closed for the foreseeable future and traditional owners say the State Government is to blame.
Premier Roger Cook says he is ‘frustrated’ at the achingly slow progress of delivering a Step Up Step Down facility in Karratha.
Amazon says introduction of new technologies has enhanced more than 50,000 jobs across its fulfillment centers in Europe.
Ryan Browne
Economists say tariff hikes might be more useful as a political tool for Biden’s 2024 reelection bid rather than as an economic solution to the country’s China woes.
Rebecca Picciotto
The picture is more complicated because some of the most stubborn components of services inflation are household necessities like car and housing insurance as well as property taxes.
Brian Evans
There are three phrases in particular that capture the Finnish mentality around finding happiness and contentment at work. Here they are ...
Jennifer Liu
Qantas has made a huge call on flights travelling a major route from Australia over fears of a potential Iranian attack as the conflict in the Gaza Strip escalates.
Liam Beatty
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a crash that claimed the life of a 49-year-old man in Mooliabeenee, near Bindoon, during the early hours of Saturday.
Emily Moulton
Star WA Liberal recruit Mark Wales has used his first speech to the party faithful to applaud Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s controversial views on gender identity.
Basil Zempilas has unleashed on Labor in his first speech to the Liberal faithful — saying the Cook Government was ‘out of touch, arrogant and has lost its way’.
Australian adventurer Michael Smith has hit an important first milestone in his mammoth effort to recreate the first seaplane circumnavigation of the country a century ago.
Qantas has been forced to re-route its non-stop flights from Perth to London because of escalating tensions in parts of the Middle East.
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