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Darwin and surrounding towns enter a two-day lockdown after a COVID-19 outbreak linked to the recent cluster in Sydney was reported. Restrictions also increase in Western Australia after a woman who recently returned from Sydney also tests positive.
2021-06-27

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces that all states and territories in Australia will reopen their borders by Christmas, with the exception of Western Australia.
2020-11-13

Three adults and four children are found shot dead at a property in Margaret River, Western Australia. Police suspect murder-suicide.
2018-05-11

Western Australia's Pilbara region braces for the impact of Cyclone Stan, which is expected to make landfall as a Category Three storm.
2016-01-30

A bushfire burning near the town of Esperance, Western Australia, is threatening lives and properties.
2016-01-9

Three people are unaccounted for and at least 135 structures are destroyed, including the historic Yarloop Workshops, following a bushfire in the small Western Australian town of Yarloop. Reports coming out of the area suggest the town of Yarloop has been almost completely destroyed with one local official, Murray Cowper, saying, "A big fireball came through and there was no way they were going to stop it. This could well be the end of the town".
2016-01-8

A New South Wales Rural Fire Service firefighter dies while fighting an out of control bushfire near Cessnock in the Hunter Valley.
2015-11-26

Authorities confirm that bushfires have killed four people, including three German backpackers, in southern Western Australia near the town of Esperance.
2015-11-18

Voters in the state of Western Australia go to the polls for a state election with the coalition government of Colin Barnett winning a convincing victory.
2013-03-9

Rio Tinto Group and BHP Billiton announce that they have scrapped a proposed $120 billion joint venture in the Pilbara region of Western Australia due to regulatory problems.
2010-10-18