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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.

The Landcare movement has the ability to unite farmers and environmentalists, but it hasn't received much attention in an election campaign infatuated with climate change.

For the past seven years Andy May has been opening up his farm in the south-west corner of Western Australia to people dealing with mental illness, addictions and disabilities. It's part of a social farming initiative. Read more

Farmers in southern WA open their gates to people with social and health problems to give them the chance to develop new skills and have new experiences, embracing the concept of social farming.

A warm patch of weather is thought to have led a Western Australian asparagus grower to harvest his earliest crop in forty years.

Torbay asparagus farmer Phillip Marshall is surprised to see his asparagus crop shooting three weeks earlier than usual.

Mike Shipley, of Shipley's farm in Torbay, says the 340 kilometre journey to the closest abattoir puts unnecessary stress on his cattle.

A southern Western Australian biodynamic beef farmer wants the option of a local abattoir to process his cattle, to avoid the stress of transporting cattle hundreds of kilometres.

A Water Corporation backflip on its plan to dump wastewater at Perkins Beach, near Albany in southern Western Australia, has been heralded as a win for the local community.

A plan to dump wastewater at a popular beach near Albany attracts the ire of Great Southern residents.

An independent store owner in Albany says regional communities will suffer as a result of the price wars between the large supermarket chains.

Police say it could take more than a week to formally identify a man killed in a car crash near Albany.

A man in his 20s has died after his car crashed into a tree and caught fire west of Albany.

A new section of the tourist trail which will eventually run from Perth to Albany is opening today.

Construction work on the great southern section of WA's Munda Biddi Cycle Trail will begin today.

A farmer has been found guilty in the Albany Magistrates Court of animal cruelty.

A farmer in WA's Great Southern has been charged after 300 starving cattle were discovered on his properties.