The trucking of oversize loads along the Great Western Highway is expected to take several months but planners aim to keep traffic disruptions to a minimum.

Record high gold prices and closed borders spark a boom in gold prospecting in Western Australia's Goldfields region, and metal detectors are flying off shelves around the state.

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Carnarvon has been devastated by the silting up of its main waterway for years; now, the State Government will pay for a permanent fix as part of its pandemic recovery plan.

New evidence of a platypus population emerges amid a development boom on the city's urban fringe.