Open season for marron fishing
This year’s marron season opened on Wednesday, and almost 10,000 licenced fishers are expected to flock to South West rivers and dams to catch the freshwater crayfish.
Annual swim invitation
Hopey Swim is gearing up for its annual events, the Morwong Mile Swim and the Hopetoun IGA Big Summer Splash.
Housing shortage leaves jobs vacant
Esperance could fill 60 job vacancies immediately if the workers had somewhere to live, according to a Shire of Esperance survey.
New school book innovates the science program
Semi-retired environmental biologists Honorary Research Associate Felicity Bradshaw and Emeritus Professor Don Bradshaw have produced a new science program for kids.
Another black rocks death
Saturday saw yet another death after a woman was swept off the rocks at Salmon Beach just after 11am.
Eye witness’s story of the Esperance train wreck
36 after the event, Max Francis offered to set the record straight about a tanker train crash in 1988.