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Bushfires have closed the Eyre Highway for the second time this summer, with no confirmation of when the critical road route will reopen.

A proposal to close a quarter of the waters between Bremer Bay and the South Australian border to all fishing draws mixed reactions from the community.

Deng Kiir Dau, 34, has denied he tried to transport more than $4 million worth of drugs into Western Australia via the state's border checkpoint at Eucla. 

The 38-year-old is the fifth person to be charged following the alleged seizure of 145kg of cocaine in Eucla and Esperance last year, nearly half of which was allegedly found during the search of a trailer being towed through a WA border checkpoint.

Eucla locals say it is just the third time the Eyre Highway has been used as an emergency runway by the RFDS in the past two decades.

There are renewed calls to upgrade the flood-prone Eucla airstrip after the Royal Flying Doctor Service performed a rare highway landing to evacuate a seriously injured patient on the Nullarbor Plain.

The Shire of Dundas says the profits from Norseman's IGA, which it purchased for $1.43 million, will be reinvested into the community.

Heavy rain comes to the aid of firefighters battling a bushfire that has already burned more than 18,000 hectares in WA and has been threatening the main sealed road in and out of the state. 

A storm outbreak is set to hit broad parts of the east coast on Wednesday afternoon, with warnings of possible damaging winds and large hail for much of coastal New South Wales into south-east Queensland. Meanwhile, potentially record-breaking heat is building in the west.

A court has heard a 33-year-old Perth man accused of transporting more than $4 million worth of illegal drugs into Western Australia via the state's border checkpoint at Eucla made full admissions to police.  

The Shire of Dundas spent $4,500 to ask a number of residents to delete Facebook comments that allegedly defamed its president and chief executive.

A court has heard a passenger in a car was "totally ignorant" about more than $4 million in methylamphetamine and cocaine allegedly hidden beneath the driver's seat.  

Two Queensland men who were arrested on the Nullarbor with 70 kilograms of cocaine allegedly being towed in a trailer have been granted bail, despite WA Police raising concerns about them being a flight risk. 

With the route from Laverton to Winton set to be sealed by the end of the decade, advocates are pushing for expanded EV infrastructure along with it.

A 75-year-old man who built a mattress out of tree branches and wrote a message for rescuers in the sand has been found by police after spending a night alone in "one of the least populated places on the planet".

There are fears Western Australia's south coast abalone sector could be devastated by restrictions flagged as part of the creation of a controversial marine park.

The highway connecting South Australia and Western Australia was temporarily transformed into a runway on Saturday as paramedics responded to a vehicle rollover that left a 53-year-old man with critical injuries.

The federal government has announced $400,000 in funding to improve the security of the Koonalda Cave in the Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area.

Rookie truckie Katie Gianoncelli is one of many drivers undertaking massive journeys in long-haul trucks to resupply Western Australia's flood-hit communities.

Former One Nation senator Rod Culleton claims to be a Commonwealth officer, while his co-accused requests the magistrate take a sobriety test as the pair's trial begins.

If you're driving between SA and WA this holiday season, keep your eyes peeled for southern hairy-nosed wombats, with up to 200 per square kilometre in some parts of the desert.

Its language and literal meaning are a mystery. But somehow, in a time before the internet, this song went viral across half the Australian continent.

Rod Keogh doesn't get a full night's sleep in winter because his "babies" are up in the middle of the night and they're incredibly noisy.

He's got a long neck and is on a 2,750-kilometre trek that is expected to take 38 hours, but Inkosi the giraffe is standing tall as he crosses the Nullarbor Plain, accompanied by zookeepers and a vet.

It's the low moaning sound of the spray bursting from the whale's blowhole that has Deshuan, 9, excited as he peers through the binoculars. It's a spectacular sight for anyone, but extra special for Deshuan and his people.