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A Boeing 737-300 firefighting tanker crashes in Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia. Both pilots survive.
2023-02-6

A radioactive capsule is missing along a 1,400-kilometre stretch of highway in Western Australia.
2023-01-27

Western Australia indefinitely suspends the reopening of its borders to fully vaccinated international and inter-state travellers in order to allow people to receive a booster dose due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
2022-01-20

Rio Tinto CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques and two other senior executives resign amid an enquiry into the destruction of the 46,000 year old Juukan Gorge caves in Western Australia, which is considered an Aboriginal sacred site. Rio Tinto destroyed the ancient rock shelters while expanding the Brockman 4 mine.
2020-09-10

A fragment of the world's oldest ground-edge axe dated at between 45,000 and 49,000 years old is found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
2016-05-11

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

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

A tropical cyclone warning is issued for Western Australia's Pilbara and Kimberly regions as Cyclone Lua approaches at Category 3 strength.
2012-03-16

Tropical Cyclone Carlos wreaks damage in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, with reports of four tornadoes striking the mining town of Karratha.
2011-02-22