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3 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Samantha Goerling |Rosemary Murphy
A woman has been winched to safety after falling down a gully in Torndirrup National Park. She was on her way to a popular fishing spot with her children when she fell. The woman was retrieved by helicopter late on Monday and taken to hospital for treatment. A woman has been winched to safety and taken to hospital after suffering serious injuries at a national park on Western Australia's south coast.
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4 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Rosemary Murphy |Samantha Goerling
Residents in the Great Southern town of Gnowangerup, 350 kilometres south-east of Perth, have been left without a supermarket after a fire ripped through its local IGA. To get groceries, residents will have to make a 130km round trip to the next town of Katanning. Emergency services were called to the blaze on Wednesday afternoon. Crews were able to quickly contain the fire before it could spread to other buildings.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Andrew Chounding |Rosemary Murphy |Keane Bourke
WA Liberal candidate for Albany, Thomas Brough, has been referred to the State Administrative Tribunal for alleged professional misconduct. The referral related to comments Dr Brough made falsely linking the LGBQIA+ community with paedophiles. Dr Brough says the leak had been perpetrated by his political opponents and will not distract him from his campaign.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Rosemary Murphy |Andrew Chounding
The head of Western Australia's peak medical body has dismissed suggestions mental health checks for firearm owners will be "rubber-stamped", after a Liberal candidate implied a "posse" of rural doctors would help potential gun owners through the process.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Rosemary Murphy |Sam Tomlin
Authorities are urging residents along Western Australia's Pilbara and Kimberley coasts to expect severe weather for much of the week as uncertainty remains over where a forecast tropical cyclone will make landfall. Currently north-west of the Kimberley coast, tropical low 18U is expected to intensify into a tropical cyclone by Wednesday night. It is currently about 290 kilometres north-west of Broome and moving south-west at about nine kilometres per hour.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Verity Gorman |Rosemary Murphy |Kelly Gudgeon |Michelle Stanley
Emergency crews are working to clean up asbestos in Marble Bar in Western Australia's north after a severe thunderstorm ripped through the town, destroying five homes. A caravan park ablution block was also destroyed and a further 11 properties were damaged. The Bureau of Meteorology says an isolated storm hit the Pilbara town just after 6:00pm on Thursday with 115kph winds recorded. An emergency warning was issued for the area shortly after.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Verity Gorman |Rosemary Murphy |Kelly Gudgeon |Michelle Stanley
A severe thunderstorm has damaged homes in Western Australia's north. The Weather Bureau says an isolated storm hit the Pilbara town of Marble Bar around 6:15pm on Thursday with 113kph winds recorded. An emergency warning was issued for the area shortly after. Jessica Jenkins from the Marble Bar Volunteer Fire and Emergency Services told the ABC that six homes had lost roofs and walls and a further 10 homes had been damaged. "The storm was a scary experience for Marble Bar locals," she said.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Charlie Mills |Rosemary Murphy |Verity Gorman |Alistair Bates
Residents along Western Australia's Pilbara coast are celebrating after the passage of Tropical Cyclone Sean left behind a transformed landscape. The system peaked at category four late on Monday afternoon and has continued to track away from the WA coast in the hours since. With emergency warnings being downgraded and only minor damage and flooding reported, locals have largely welcomed the relief from the hot and steamy conditions.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Rosemary Murphy |Michelle Stanley |Kelly Gudgeon
Heavy rains have smashed Western Australia's Pilbara, closing a major highway and cutting a landmark town off from outside access. Better known for its scorching temperatures at this time of year, Marble Bar, 1,470 kilometres north of Perth, was hit with 104mm of rain in just over two hours on Monday evening. The system was the latest in a near-week of storms across parts of the Pilbara that have closed numerous roads, including the North West Coastal Highway.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Rosemary Murphy |Michelle Stanley |Kelly Gudgeon |Sophia Alston
Heavy rainfall, a strange skyline and a waterspout over the ocean are just some of the weather phenomena witnessed across Western Australia's Pilbara region over the past 24 hours. The stormy weather has delighted many locals who watched on in awe. Dampier resident Eloise Dortch was out walking her dog on Monday morning when something caught her eye off the coast. "I didn't know what I was looking at," Ms Dortch said. "I saw this weird, dark trail going from the rain clouds down into ocean.
