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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.

Traditional owners will plant 4.5 million trees on a barren property near Esperance so they can earn income by trading carbon offsets with big companies. L'Oréal Groupe has already started investing in the business.

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

Police say the real motive of a 56-year-old Queensland man, who was allowed to enter Western Australia after allegedly telling authorities he needed to care for a sick relative, was to go fishing.

The West Australian Government will begin carting emergency water supplies to another dry agriculture region after it made its 12th water deficiency declaration in a year.

WA is already carting 11 million litres of drinking water into 10 towns and just announced it's set to deliver to four more as the dire water situation continues.

Fires that roared through the world's biggest woodland devastated Indigenous lands and killed wildlife in untold numbers. As the smoke clears, the focus has shifted to how to stop this from happening again.

Bushfires on the edge of the Nullarbor have forced authorities to close a 330-kilometre stretch of outback highway, causing chaos for truck drivers and holiday makers just five days before Christmas.

It has taken almost 20 years of campaigning from farmers and today the first post of a new $11 million wild dog fence in WA has been driven into the ground.

In just four weeks, Western Australian truckies received 130 tonnes of donated livestock feed and are now giving up their holidays to take it east.

West Australian farmer Greg Kenney is fined for contempt of court after refusing to leave his Salmon Gums property to allow the CBA to take possession, with former One Nation senator Rod Culleton describing commercial bank loans as "like sleeping with a wild animal".

The leader of a biosecurity group in Western Australia says more sheep will be reintroduced to the state if fences are built to keep out wild dogs.

The farmers behind an independent review into last November's catastrophic fires say the Department of Fire and Emergency Services has not co-operated with their inquiry.

Residents of Salmon Gums say a multi-million dollar Royalties for Regions-backed phone tower struggles to provide coverage beyond the town site.

The president of the WA Rural Action Movement, Greg Kenney, loses his latest bid to prevent the Commonwealth Bank from seizing his Salmon Gums farm over a debt of over $2 million.

The President of the WA Rural Action Movement is facing legal action after refusing to let the Commonwealth Bank take possession of his property.

Plans for a desalination plant in Esperance or tapping underground water supplies have been labelled "too expensive" by the Water Corporation.

Bushfire Front WA chairman Roger Underwood says air support is only minimally effective in fighting large bushfires, such as those at Esperance and Yarloop.

Farmers and volunteers are concerned problems with fire mitigation, controlled burns and mobile communications may be missed by Yarloop inquiry.

With the Esperance fires now under control, farmers are dealing with a dramatically changed landscape.

The names of the three foreign nationals believed to have died in the Esperance bushfires are released by police, as residents are cleared to return home.

Residents are given the all clear to return to their homes in fire affected areas around Esperance, but are being told to brace themselves for the worst when they return to their properties.

Three young Europeans who died in the Esperance bushfires were trying to save a horse and turned the wrong way onto a highway and into the flames.

Volunteers band together to help victims of the Esperance bushfires as hundreds of people pack into the local civic centre to hear the latest on the emergency response.

One of the men who died in the bushfires burning near Esperance was a local farmer trying to warn his neighbours, the ABC is told.