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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.

Rail officials plead with country drivers to not take risks at level crossings as hair-raising footage emerges of a train and truck coming within "a second" of a catastrophic collision.         

Struggling with the housing and cost of living crisis, a Sydney woman decided to move to outback Western Australia.

Struggling to pay rent and bills in Sydney, Alys bought a cheap house in outback WA.

Struggling to pay rent in Sydney, Alys McDonough bought what she says was one of the cheapest houses in Australia. She's now back living there, with no mains power and with a bit of ceiling missing, but she says she's sorted.

A country medical service facing liquidation angers creditors by offering them 30 per cent of what they are owed to escape a half-a-million-dollar debt while pushing ahead with plans for a new clinic.

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. 

Over 38 pages and 25 towns, police have gone into intense detail about the extent of regional Western Australia's alcohol problem.

WA Police and some regional shires say 25 towns should be subject to similar liquor restrictions as Carnarvon due to levels of alcohol fuelled violence up to 104 times higher than the metropolitan area.

In a letter sent to the director of Liquor Licensing, Deputy Police Commissioner Allan Adams says "immediate intervention" is needed to address shocking rates of domestic violence and other forms of crime.

Jurors deliberated for about two hours before finding 57-year-old Shane Plunkett acted in self-defence when he shot a 38-year-old man last year after a violent altercation.

The trial of a man who claims he shot another man in self-defence has heard from the shooter for the first time after his police interview was played to the jury.  

A West Australian man claims he shot another man in self-defence in the days after an alleged axe attack in a small outback town. 

The stoush between a West Australian man who'd 'had enough' of hoons driving around his property and the man who he shot with a stolen firearm has been heard in a district court trial.

The Shire of Dundas considers reversing its decision to cut support to its Norseman-based GP of 17 years after the FIFO medical service it backed to replace him runs into financial trouble.

A WA medical practice is at the centre of a pay dispute with doctors and medical service providers who say they are owed thousands of dollars in unpaid fees.

Spinlaunch is looking at several sites around the globe, including two on the south coast of Western Australia, to build its orbital accelerator.

The ABC Science team spent six weeks travelling all over Australia to record 200 sounds for a soundtrack of the country. It was a challenging undertaking. Here's how they did it.

A worsening labour shortage and the world's growing need for critical metals are set to take centre stage this week, as mining industry representatives descend on Kalgoorlie-Boulder for the annual Diggers and Dealers conference.

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.

Residents of a small town in Western Australia's Goldfields have expressed their frustration following the departure of Norseman's "popular" and "compassionate" doctor, amid a dispute with the local council. 

With 88 vacancies for doctors across regional Western Australia, the Shire of Dundas faces a difficult task at replacing its only Norseman GP, who closed his clinic this week amid an ongoing dispute with the council.

A 33-year-old man has died after two trucks collided near the Goldfields town of Widgiemooltha, about 600 kilometres east of Perth on Tuesday morning.