Local News
12 Mar 10 | BUNBURY’S Doug Slater has been named Western Australia’s favourite cabbie after thousands of online voters from around the world chose him to drive the Extraordinary Taxi Ride - the first campaign to be launched under the State’s new tourism brand: Experience Extraordinary.
10 Mar 10 | FEARS that Beach Road is being swamped with traffic to a growing number of businesses have led a concerned resident to approach council about safety fears.
10 Mar 10 | THE Department of Corrective Services has refused to reveal how many former maximum security prisoners at Bunbury Regional Prison could be released into the community when their sentence is finished.
10 Mar 10 | A BUNBURY City councillor has come up with a plan to kill two birds with one stone
10 Mar 10 | HIGH-rise developers who postponed or cancelled projects prior to the global financial crisis had made good business decisions, according to Commercial Realty principal Mike Jenkins.
10 Mar 10 | A LOCAL environment group is outraged that Dardanup Forest could be destroyed and has urged the community to stand up against the logging plans.
10 Mar 10 | THE fashion stakes were high at the Bunbury Turf Club yesterday during Ladies Stakes Day.
10 Mar 10 | WITHERS residents have been hit by 20 power cuts in the past six months and are calling for immediate action.
03 Mar 10 | ALMOST 2000 concerned mothers, fathers and members of the public have signed a petition asking the State Government to put a halt to discrimination against breastfeeding mothers.
03 Mar 10 | EATON residents will have the chance to see the proposed redevelopment of the Eaton Fair Shopping Centre as early as next week.
03 Mar 10 | BUNBURY residents are in safe hands with the ongoing dedication and passion of surgeon and recent octogenarian Val Lishman who was honoured at the highest level last weekend.
03 Mar 10 | RECREATIONAL fishing is becoming an increasingly costly leisure activity, according to local mariners.
As of yesterday, a new licence was required for recreational fishers in regional WA who fish from a powered vessel.
03 Mar 10 | MOST 19-year-old girls would not consider shaving their heads bald for charity but for Lauren Robinson it is about to become a reality.
03 Mar 10 | QUICK thinking by pharmacy staff and the actions of witnesses to an armed hold up has been praised by police in helping to capture the gunman.
25 Feb 10 | FIVE people have suffered sulphuric acid burns after a pipe burst at Millennium Inorganic Chemicals Australind plant, 15 kilometres from Bunbury this morning.
24 Feb 10 | STRUGGLING to walk to work everyday?
Spare a thought for author Stephanie Dale, who walked 1500km from Rome towards Istanbul, and then wrote a book about it.
24 Feb 10 | FORREST Beach has been safer since a new management plan saw fences erected along sections of the beach late last year, according to the Shire of Capel and the beach owners.
24 Feb 10 | WINERIES in the Ferguson Valley are anticipating a good vintage thanks to the long dry summer.
24 Feb 10 | DRIVERS are urged to take more care after a number of near misses at the only entrance to Kingston Estate.
24 Feb 10 | BUNBURY residents can give the gift of sight by dropping off their old prescription glasses to Laubman and Pank optometrists during OneSight week, which started yesterday.