The Cook Labor Government says the Wheatbelt region will benefit from significant investment in housing, healthcare, infrastructure and economic development under the 2026-27 State Budget, alongside targeted cost-of-living relief for families.
The Cook Labor Government has expanded Western Australia's State-owned strategic diesel reserve, securing an additional 8 million litres of fuel and increasing the emergency stockpile to 20 million litres.
The Cook Labor Government has unveiled a new tourism initiative designed to attract more visitors to Western Australia's Coral Coast, offering travellers 50 per cent discounts on selected tours and experiences across Exmouth, Coral Bay and Carnarvon.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – China’s Xi Jinping is traveling to North Korea for the first time in nearly seven years in a trip that offers North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a stage to showcase an increasingly assertive foreign policy anchored by closer ties with his country’s former Cold War allies.
MONACO (AP) – Kimi Antonelli is writing his place in Formula 1 history at record speed. “You’re catching me up,” Lewis Hamilton, who has the most wins in history with 105, told Antonelli after the 19-year-old Italian beat him in a bizarre and much-delayed Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – A 13-year-old boy is credited with saving the lives of his mother and two younger siblings with an hourslong swim after the family was swept out to sea off the Australian coast. Austin Appelbee swam 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) to shore to raise the alarm after he got into difficulties on Friday.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Lawyers for two sons of Virginia Giuffre, her housekeeper and her former attorney appeared in an Australian court Friday in a case deciding who controls her estate.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – Police in Western Australia have seized guns and revoked or suspended firearms permits from dozens of owners linked to what investigators describe as sovereign citizen ideologies, or views that reject government authority.
MREIJEH, Lebanon (AP) – Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs without warning on Sunday, days after a ceasefire agreement in Washington went into effect and despite a U.S. request not to attack Lebanon ‘s capital. Lebanon’s state-run national news agency said two people were killed and 11 wounded.