Geraldton - 6530

A renewable energy project being built at one of Western Australia's biggest gold mines has been transformed into a unique canvas for an Indigenous artist and about 200 schoolchildren.

Midwest WA residents could not reach Triple Zero amid a perfect storm of severe weather and fires, causing extended mobile and power outages.

With only seven more sleeps until the big day, Western Australia looks like being the hottest capital city in the nation this Christmas.

Parts of WA's Indigenous community are in mourning, while others have mixed feelings, after a former mission where members of the Stolen Generation were institutionalised was partly destroyed in a bushfire.

Firefighters are left without communications while battling emergency-level bushfires as an extended power outage sees mobile phone towers fail.

The boy was dragged under a car for more than 100 metres, with the judge saying she does not know how he survived. 

A woman in WA's Midwest says she found a lit flare in her backyard in the early hours of the morning during extreme bushfire conditions.  

Australian beekeepers are funding their own investigation into the authenticity of imported honey, with tests showing other products are being added.

The WA government says it will continue to cap airfares for regional residents but from July next year they will be more expensive during peak holiday periods.

Catering to children with autism spectrum disorders, it is the first of its kind in regional Western Australia. 

The alleged use of an international livestock ship to smuggle drugs into Western Australia last month prompted a media storm, but one expert says it is just one among a "dizzying variety" of methods criminals are trying.

While police say the investigation is over, the local community is still trying to move forward from the devastation.

As the summer heat settles in, flora and fauna associated with Christmas in Australia can be spotted throughout the country. 

WA Police allege young boys were responsible for lighting a fire in Geraldton last weekend that later reignited and destroyed a home in an outer suburb of the Mid West city. 

New fishing rules come into effect in Western Australia next month, significantly reducing the amount of local fish available in the state. 

Strict bans limiting commercial and recreational fishing in Perth and WA are announced in an effort to save some under-threat fish species from the brink of collapse.

Police offer up a $25,000 reward as they try to determine the cause of a blaze that tore through 160 hectares of land, left two homes uninhabitable and completely destroyed another in Geraldton.

Our photographers cast their eyes towards WA's exploding rabbit population, a surfer's near-miss with a suspected great white shark, and a school program helping parents bond with their children.

A home owner who lost his house and his cat to a bushfire in Geraldton, in WA's Mid West, says "karma" is looking for anyone who may have deliberately lit the blazes.

Authorities have downgraded their warning levels for bushfires burning in the greater Geraldton area to an 'advice' level after a challenging day for firefighters.