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In its latest effort to shore-up supply, Water Corporation is adding thousands of plastic hexagons to dams to stop drinking water from being lost to evaporation.

A network of sensors that detect the water levels in tanks on farms and then sends the data to firefighters is being established in WA.

Western Australia's safety authority has announced an inquiry into the agriculture sector following a series of farm-related deaths.

It's one of the few seats likely to remain conservative following Saturday's state election, but what issues are facing voters in Roe?

A wave of renewable energy is set to wash over Western Australia’s farming heartland under new laws.

As the Western Australian industry struggles to meet demand for seasonal workers, farmers now want to hire workers impacted by the drought before backpackers.

The Lake King tractor museum in Western Australia's Great Southern has officially opened with a collection of home made tractors, built by the region's farmers in the 1970's and 1980's.

In the 1970s and 1980s, farmers in Western Australia's Great Southern built their own tractors, which are now on display in a custom-built museum at Lake King.

When a Western Australian man dragged a hollow log on to the roof of his farmhouse and strapped it to the chimney with old fencing wire, he hoped endangered cockatoos would come home to roost.

It was a predictable fixture when the Ravensthorpe Tigers and Hopetoun Southerners battled out their League Grand Final: they're the only teams in the league.

Blaze Aid volunteers like Jim Mulligan are helping farmers in the Lake King region of Western Australia get back on their feet after devastating floods ripped through the area in February. Read more

Volunteer organisation Blaze Aid helps flooded West Australian farmers get back on their feet by setting up a camp at Lake King this past week.

Blaze Aid coordinators, volunteers and farmers talk about re-erecting fences near Lake King in Western Australia's Great Southern after major flooding.

Low grain prices prompt a group of West Australia farmers to start a discussion about better overseas marketing of Australian grain.

Lake King grain meeting attendees talk about suggested need for better overseas marketing and promotion.

The family of an Esperance couple who mysteriously failed to return from a camping trip describe their "horrible" wait for answers as a private search continues.

The search for Esperance campers Jeremy and Marama Sim is suspended by WA police, who say there has been no sign of the couple or their vehicle after they were last seen nine days ago.

A search again fails to find any trace of a missing WA couple who were spotted in the eastern Wheatbelt eight days ago on a camping trip, but have not been seen or heard from since.

A search is underway for a missing West Australian couple who have not been seen or heard from since leaving Esperance in their four-wheel drive to go camping a week ago.

Three men are killed in a single car rollover near Lake King in Western Australia's south.

Lake King Primary School in Western Australia has just 44 students but that hasn't stopped it winning a major education award. Read more

David Axworthy, Kaye Brownley, Sarah Frost and Lake King students talk about the primary school's recent award for exemplary performance.

The age old saying "it takes a whole village to raise a child" has been proven true this past week, with Lake King Primary School receiving an exemplary performance certificate.

Police are still trying to work out what exactly happened to a 49-year-old man whose body was found by the side of a road in Western Australia's Great Southern.

With an influx of stories and photographs of eagle activity on Western Australian wheatbelt properties, a raptor expert says it is nothing unusual.