Record auction bid of $50,000 reunites kelpie puppy with young leukaemia survivor
Eight-year-old Emily Houston formed a special bond with kelpie Brutus while training him for a charity fundraiser. Now, she will be able to see him regularly.
Kate Forrester is a rural reporter for ABC South West WA based in Bunbury.
She joined the ABC in 2023 after graduating from Edith Cowan University with a postgraduate broadcasting diploma.
Kate is the 2022 ABC Paul Lockyer scholarship winner.
Eight-year-old Emily Houston formed a special bond with kelpie Brutus while training him for a charity fundraiser. Now, she will be able to see him regularly.
A decade before shot-hole borer entered Australia, the invasive beetle was tearing through avocado crops in California. Now, the US state has the pest under control. What can WA take from its success?
Busselton, Mandurah, and a number of other towns broke rainfall records as a cold front passed across the state's south.
Instead of slowing down in retirement, this South West WA couple have started to make and sell their own cheeses from their farm shop.
Emily Houston, who is in remission after her leukaemia diagnosis, is now helping train working dogs like Brutus for a very special fundraiser.
Topic:Feel Good
As the gold medals keep coming for Australian athletes in Paris, one school in country WA is proud of the reputation it's building up – a school with a knack for producing Olympians.
Eastbrook, near the South West town of Pemberton, saw farmers coming from far and wide to compete over two days, with 25-year-old Victorian Scott Loughridge coming out on top to earn himself a trip to Prague.
Ben Pettingill, who is 98 per cent blind, needs someone by his side when he runs. With his mate Mike Rolls, the pair has found no shortage of people willing to run and chat about life.
Farmsafe Australia wants all agriculture workers to have first aid and trauma response training, saying it can be the difference between life and death in remote areas.
Stephen Reiffer is keen to show everyone that yuzu is so much more than just a little, yellow citrus fruit as chefs seek it out for everything from crayfish butter sauce to margaritas.
This fibreglass cow has done the rounds of WA over the past three years, but now Clarabelle is lending a hoof to farmers in a campaign against a ban on live sheep exports.
Topic:Feel Good
Western Australia's CWA branches have welcomed men into their ranks after 100 years, with members voting almost unanimously to grant men membership rights.
From tobacco to cauliflowers to timber, Manjimup has long struggled to find an identity that sticks. Where the small WA town heads next is the million-dollar question.
Farmers have been told to stand "shoulder to shoulder" after the federal inquiry into phasing out the export of sheep by sea recommended the bill be passed.
The coal mining town, 200km south of Perth, is one of seven sites identified by the Coalition as the potential site for a nuclear reactor under Peter Dutton's nuclear energy proposal.
Peter Dutton's plan to build a nuclear power plant in Collie has drawn mixed reactions in the west, but it won't happen before 2050.
John and Linda Stanley have just come out the other side of what they are calling "the worst year for any chestnut grower" which produced only 1.7 tonnes of their normal 12-tonne crop.
While pushed as a sustainable source for clothing, hemp producers say a complex web of rules and regulations — including going through the office of drug control — make it hard for them to meet demands from the fashion industry.
Farmers around Boyup Brook are aiming to raise $90,000 through community cropping in a bid to improve the WA town's aging sporting facilities.
With the likely end to live sheep exports out of Western Australia, people right along the state's supply chain are contemplating how the future of sheep production will look.
A growing number of citrus producers in Australia are being squeezed out of the industry, blaming rising production costs and low prices for their produce from supermarkets.
Farmers from the sheep and wool industries argue a decision made with animal welfare in mind will ultimately lead to worse outcomes for the animals and the people directly impacted.
Grace Newton-Wordsworth spent her younger years on the farm listening to pop star Pink through the headphones of her Walkman. Now she is singing right next to her.
A potato farmer says he has turned his six pumps off as rain gives his crops a soaking that has spread across much of his region.
Trialling sheepdogs in Australia has a long history, with many competitors travelling year-round to compete at rural and remote events, and for others it's their "getaway from the farm".