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Forget chess and debating clubs, in an old shed in Western Australia, these county kids are competing in merino wool judging to prepare them for life on the land.

Shearers Ethan Harder and Ethan Gellatly have been named WA's first shearing ambassadors, and plan to break down some of the stigma associated with their industry.

Just 18 months after swooping into Canberra, a giant magpie is being recognised as one of the nation's top "big things" on new $1 coins from the Royal Australian Mint.  

A new kind of agritourism is being welcomed by producers and planning experts as farmers look to diversify their income streams without making more work for themselves.

Hundreds of farmers have attended meetings across regional Western Australia to voice concerns about a ban on live export. 

Reality is sinking in for sheep producers who are now grappling with the cost of mandatory electronic tagging of sheep from 2025.

Through loss and uncertainty have come personal lessons of resilience, community and stability for young Australians affected by natural disasters.

Great Southern residents awoke on Sunday to "unreal" shaking that sounded "like heavy trucks" as the 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck.

Regional poll workers say understaffing and last-minute training put voting booths under stress during Saturday's federal election, a situation further exacerbated by farmers' seeding schedules.

State and federal governments, along with grain handler CBH Group, will spend the money over the next three years to reduce delays moving grain from storage sites to port. 

It's been a shaky start to the year for Western Australia, with more than 100 earthquakes recorded in the state — and there are several reasons for that.

Photographers brave all conditions to capture thunderstorms, dust devil and auroras for next year's Bureau of Meteorology calendar.

Dakota Watts has had her ribs stomped on, seven stitches and a haematoma in her leg, but she says it comes with the territory of rodeo and she wants to make it big.

Katanning's imam says watching A Jit Khan's three-year-old son running around as he broke the news to the family was devastating.

Police say they hold hope of finding a father of three missing in floodwaters in Western Australia's south as a major land and air search continues.

A new project using locally foraged botanicals, and the ‘gin’ from the names of outback towns, is creating a range of gins to boost community spirit.

At pubs across WA's Wheatbelt, a pint of beer is usually the drink of choice for patrons, but an ingenious new project has put gin on the menu for a handful of innovative outback towns.

The last passenger rail service between the two cities was in 1978, and campaigners say the time has come to get moving on the "game-changing" concept.

It's one of the few seats likely to remain conservative following Saturday's state election, but what issues are facing voters in Roe?

Some Australians were the first to sign up for a new satellite internet service this week, but it won't go online until later in 2021.