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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.

Nickel prices have plummeted in recent months due to a glut in the market, but some analysts say it's part of the "boom and bust" nature of the industry.

Hopetoun locals brace for the impact of another wave of job losses, after First Quantum Minerals moves to suspend activities at its Ravensthorpe nickel operation on the state's south coast.

The owner of the Ravensthorpe nickel operation on WA's south coast says it will suspend mining and cut 30 per cent of its 420-strong workforce. 

The 2.5-billion-year-old Helena and Aurora Range is on track to join its namesake national park, due to expand significantly with the Mount Manning Conservation Park's addition.

Firefighters in a rural community have spent years trying to secure a water supply. But a series of inexplicable government decisions have left them without the vital resource. 

Lindsay Topperwien lost his brother Ken and his leg when he was hit by a drug-affected driver earlier this year, but he hopes the perpetrator can be rehabilitated.

The state government has started negotiating the purchase of at least six properties damaged by a landslip in southern WA.

The WA budget pledged more than $60 million for government houses. So why, just before the budget came out, did it cancel a project it had already sunk $20,000 into?

Locals are outraged by a plan to cut down trees in a critical breeding area for the Carnaby's black cockatoo — a species on the brink of extinction due to land clearing.  

Locals are outraged by a plan to cut down trees in a critical breeding area for the Carnaby's Black Cockatoo — a species on the brink of extinction due to land clearing.

Michael Livingston believes city-based decision-makers are failing remote GPs, leading to unsustainable practices and shortages across the country. But he believes he has a solution — a model he calls the "rural generalist hub".

A dramatic chase played out for more an hour as a blue whale and the orcas reached speeds in excess of 30 kilometres per hour before the prey outpaced the hunters.

Being the first to arrive on the scene of a family member's traffic crash is every emergency response worker's worst nightmare, but it happened to Wendy Price.

Firefighters are continuing to battle a series of bushfires sparked by lightning across a huge section of the state's south.

A Western Australian botanist says some native plants in the Fitzgerald River National Park are not rejuvenating from historical bushfires, and believes more research is required into the impact of all fires, including prescribed burns. 

It's been three years since three firefighters died when a large air tanker crashed while battling the Black Summer bushfires in NSW. An expert says there are similarities in the way a Boeing 737 came down in WA on Monday. 

Pictures emerge from the scene of a firefighting airliner crash in southern WA, the first time a Boeing 737 has crashed on Australian soil.

Two large water bombers have been made available to West Australian firefighters this season, but they are too big to land in Esperance Shire.

The 43-year-old migrant will likely be deported after sexually assaulting the woman on a farm near Ravensthorpe. 

The owners of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine on WA's south coast are the latest in a string of mining companies to embrace wind power as part of efforts to lower carbon emissions.

Kasey Williams barely survived a horror rollover in WA. She is forever grateful to a family in a caravan and emergency service volunteers who helped her following the crash.

Nurse and politician Julia Bell has spent decades sharing her love for camels, hoping to highlight the role they played in Australia's development.

New rules allowing overseas-trained doctors to now work in some outer suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney, and in major regional cities, mean even fewer GPs are willing to work in the bush.

In 1982 the WA town of Ravensthorpe hosted a wildflower show to highlight the region's unique biodiversity. Forty years later it boasts more than 700 wildflower species bringing in visitors from across Australia