Gascoyne Junction - 6705

Found in the remote reaches of Western Australia's Gascoyne, Quobba Station is one of the largest of its kind in state. It changed hands during a game of cards in the 1930s, according to local folklore — but not everyone is convinced.

This northern WA region has already experienced three heatwaves, and meteorologists say it's just getting warmer.

Police have cracked down on alcohol-fuelled offending in remote areas of WA but health workers fear trust would be broken if they put clients on the Banned Drinkers Register.

Amid the worst drought on record in the Gascoyne, the impacts of extreme heat is being felt by people and wildlife alike, with emus digging up town pipelines and putting holes in them for a drink.

Temperatures in the small Pilbara town of Paraburdoo reached their highest recorded level of 48.1 degrees Celsius on Sunday, as an extreme heatwave continues to bake the region. 

Livestock producers in northern WA are bottle feeding calves and cutting back their herds, as devastating drought and market conditions collide.

A long-running desert race in outback Western Australia has been cancelled after a station owner raised concerns about potential environmental damage the event could cause to the property.

Regional leaders are up in arms following an electoral boundary review set to combine the seats of Moore and North West Central into one electorate, stretching from the Wheatbelt to the Gascoyne.

Scientists, looking deep into space, have long voiced their concerns that satellites are encroaching on their ability to study the cosmos.

Just 12 people in the Gascoyne have been added to the register, and fewer than 300 are on it across Western Australia as a trial of the scheme expands.

Residents of Gascoyne Junction in WA are mopping up from a storm they say only lasted about 15 minutes but left a trail of destruction.

A major stock route, along which more livestock are thought to be overlanded than all other routes in Western Australia combined, is added to the state's heritage register.

Much of the Gascoyne and Lyons rivers could soon be listed as an Aboriginal heritage site, but there are concerns from primary producers about the level of consultation taking place.

Gascoyne Junction has opened a new GP clinic in the town, curbing travel times for residents of the small town and surrounding areas.

This remote community is combating loneliness and isolation to be better prepared for natural disasters.

As tourists return to outback WA, regional horse racing events have seen a spike in popularity. Tickets to one of the state's oldest races, the Gascoyne Junction, have become hot property.

After selling out in minutes, punters at one of WA's longest-running outback horse races say it's time to step it up a notch.

Around 40 people attended the ANZAC Memorial Service in Gascoyne Junction.

Ongoing bushfires have destroyed more than 340,000 hectares of land, and hundreds of livestock, in WA's remote Gascoyne.

WA police are searching for a driver and passengers who may have been in a vehicle seen leaving the campsite in WA's Gasgoyne region where four-year-old Cleo Smith disappeared just over a week ago.

Five hours after a man's body was found on Mount Augustus, a woman was also found deceased. Their deaths follow that of another woman earlier this week.

People's desire to reskill after losing their jobs during COVID-19 is being seen as a driving force behind a surge in TAFE enrolments across Western Australia.

Pastoralists in the remote Gascoyne region are cleaning up after floodwaters hit "like a raging river" in the region's worst flood in decades.

A major land and air search is underway for a 69-year-old German tourist missing in outback Western Australia, as the maximum temperature soars to around 40 degrees Celsius.

Praised for its "sweat characters and nuttiness", a Perth-based distillery and second-generation farmer from Western Australia's far-north have teamed up to create Australia's first red corn whiskey.