The Kimberley
- ★★★★½
- Hotel reviews
Luxury Australian lodge has bounced back from disaster better than ever
A tropical cyclone ripped through this region in November, but a first-time visitor would barely notice.
- Justine Costigan
Latest
Diphtheria outbreak reaches WA’s prisons
Two cases of the bacterial disease have been linked to West Kimberley Regional Prison, although a Justice Department spokesperson says they did not contract it while incarcerated.
- Cameron Myles
- Opinion
- Gas
Will Western Australia be ‘cooking with gas’ in the 2030s?
WA’s 15 per cent reservation policy is often held up as an example for the eastern states to emulate, but the reality is it is not living up to expectations.
- Joshua Runciman
- Opinion
- Water
Protect the Martuwarra Fitzroy River before it becomes another Murray-Darling
I’ve watched what happens when governments let water extraction get ahead of science, enforcement and common sense.
- Rob McBride
The ‘risky’ plan to take 31,000 Olympic swimming pools from beneath WA’s largest river
The state government says the draft plan to increase groundwater extraction is science-based and supportive of both industry and the environment. These experts are not convinced.
- Holly Thompson
- Updated
- Gas
Unlikely allies and ‘blackmail’ claims as WA premier raises spectre of fracking the Kimberley
Premier Roger Cook said WA had a “Browse-sized hole” in its future energy needs, and has claimed that without it, fracking in the Kimberley could be on the table.
- Michael Philipps and Holly Thompson
An eclipse had just finished dazzling Exmouth when the phone at a remote WA roadhouse started ringing
Doon Doon, around 100 kilometres south of Kununurra, has been named as the place to be when the next total solar eclipse crosses WA’s north in 2028.
- Holly Thompson
‘Elephant on back’ but no croc sightings in record WA swim
An ultramarathon athlete has survived a history-making swim in a WA river teeming with crocodiles, but he says the only Crocs he saw were the ones on his coach’s feet.
- Andrew Stafford
‘Lipstick on a pig’: WA’s ‘Seven Cities’ regional housing plan panned
Critics say a plan to inject more than 500 new houses into WA’s Government Regional Officer Housing Program using money from the state’s biggest miners was an admission Labor had dropped the ball on regional development.
- Hamish Hastie
- Exclusive
- Tourism
Horizontal Falls tourism extended to 2028 as state tips $5 million into infrastructure
Tourists wanting to ride through the popular Horizontal Falls will have two more years’ grace before Indigenous stakeholders lead a transition to more diverse cultural activities.
- Victoria Laurie