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Louisianna Chungulla will have an interesting story to tell – and an usual place of birth on her official documentation – after some fast work by the RFDS at Broome International Airport.

Louisiana Maureen Chungulla was born at Broome airport on Friday, November 22.

Skipper Edward James Whisson pleads guilty to putting in danger tourists who were injured in a boat crash at Horizontal Falls. 

Methylamphetamine is taking a toll on the central Kimberley town of Fitzroy Crossing. It is a story playing out across Australia's top end.

Thousands of Aboriginal station workers who had their wages withheld or stolen due to discriminatory government policy will be compensated $16,500 each, the Federal Court rules.

The magistrate questioned the Department of Communities' plan to work with the boy far from his home region.

Janella Isaac's elders have fought for nearly 20 years to ensure the deep cultural and environmental significance of their homeland in Western Australia's north is recognised.

Communities cry out for emergency solutions to a growing homelessness crisis with some residents warning the government that rough sleepers are at risk of dying before homes are built.

Passengers are met with bizarre scenes as a television personality wrangles a snake onboard a plane in Western Australia’s north.

Paul Papalia has announced the deployment of additional police officers to the regions for summer, while defending his record as police minister.

The man was attacked while spearfishing on Western Australia's remote Dampier Peninsula and hit the animal in order to get away, according to senior rangers.

Five years after the WA government announced it would find a new site for a prison in the Kimberley, which has been dubbed "unfit for purpose" and "degrading", a site has still not been located.

In 1942 an aircraft crashed on a remote beach in Western Australia carrying millions of dollars’ worth of cut diamonds.

The Kimberley region in WA's far north is home to more than 30 massacre sites where over 500 Aboriginal lives were claimed, but only three are officially recognised.

Nearly a quarter of a million people in WA failed to vote in the 2023 referendum and now some are facing legal action after they did not pay a penalty or provide a valid reason for avoiding the polls. 

Due to financial and time constraints, native title bodies often struggle to file compensation claims before elders with vital knowledge die, but a new Federal Court decision allows their testimonies to be collected and preserved for future claims.

A CHOICE investigation across four remote First Nations communities has found grocery items cost more than double capital city prices, with calls for the federal government to introduce price monitoring tools and price caps on essentials. 

A woman who received more than $718,000 from an insurance company after claiming she had died in a car accident in Western Australia's north is jailed.

Single mum Savannah says she sleeps in the lounge room with her kids to escape northern WA heat because it is the only room with air conditioning.

Frustrated residents say they are finding more discarded needles around Broome, including at ovals and primary schools, prompting the state government to introduce the program.