Hedland’s controversial former mayor has said he will put his hand up for re-election.
Laura Newell and Cain Andrews
Authorities are encouraging people to check their vaccine status.
Hannah Cross
An outbreak of measles in the Pilbara continues to grow after another two cases were confirmed on Friday.
With ballots hitting mailboxes and council seats up for grabs, the Pilbara is gearing up for local government elections on October 18.
Cain Andrews
The Big Australian is certain that extracting an additional 29 Optus Stadiums worth of groundwater from the Pilbara each year will have ‘no impact’ on water supply for WA residents.
Simone Grogan and Adrian Rauso
Recipients of the 2025 International Volunteer Day government grants announced
Phoebe Solon
Teenage Pilbara basketball prodigy Isabel Chambers travelled down to Perth to play with the Cockburn Cougars WABL team in the Foot Locker U14 Club Championships from September 28-October 3.
The Town of Port Hedland has been awarded the 2025 Professionals WA, Community Development Innovative Partnership Regional Award for increasing youth participation in sports through its Night Lights program.
Dramatic footage of the arrest of an alleged thief has been released by WA Police, following the alleged armed robbery of a Woolworths store in Wickham on September 28
The cost of the three commissioners to the Port Hedland Council rivals that of a full council according to shire documents.
Wickham’s AFL star Lawson Humphries was named one of the best players on the ground in Saturday’s grand final against the Brisbane Lions.
Senior Aboriginal police liaison officer Ian Tullock, who has worked in Port Hedland and across WA for more than 30 years, has received an Australian Police Medal as part of the King’s Birthday Honours List.
A fire was sparked at the South Hedland landfill on September 16, with local volunteer firefighters later extinguishing the blaze.
The first council meeting since three commissioners were appointed to the Shire of Port Hedland took place on Wednesday, September 24.
Pilbara community stalwart Nanette Williams has been honoured with an Order of Australia after her tireless work to improve access to legal, health and social services in the region over more than four decades.
Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s legal bid to slither past a mythological water serpent has hit a snag after their company was blocked from probing a deal between Mineral Resources and an Aboriginal group.
Adrian Rauso
There were 34 people killed and 196 seriously injured in car crashes in the Pilbara between 2020 and 2024, according to the Road Safety Commission.
Karratha Senior High School’s cafeteria is set to receive a $2.3m facelift, bringing much needed upgrades to the decades-old facility.
South Hedland student Cadie Doyle has been named the WA school-based apprentice of the year at the 2025 WA Training Awards this month.
Drug offences have increased by nearly 25 per cent in the Pilbara over the past year, according to the latest crime statistics for the region.
Laura Newell and Madelin Hayes
Two former MPs have been appointed to bring order back to the Port Hedland council after it was sacked following the resignation of its mayor.
Oliver Lane
Port Hedland Councillor Adrian McRae has started a petition to reduce the minimum quorum numbers in an effort to stop the council going into administration following the mayor’s resignation on August 25.
It will be the second time in just six-years that the council has been left without a quorum with Mr Carter also prompting the 2019 appointment of a commissioner, then as a councillor.
Miners seeking to develop new Pilbara projects will get faster decisions with a traffic light system built into a new regional environmental plan, as the economic roundtable looks at how to speed up approvals.
Katina Curtis
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