YOU WONT BELIEVE: 10 - What They Never Told You

Pearl-to-bone project by Marine Biomedical hopes to inspire northern Australia tech boom

Not just for decoration, pearl shells have potential for use in orthopaedic devices and other health products, including as a synthetic bone substitute.

ABC News · Apr 25, 2022

Broome's Japanese history uncovered with find of cocaine eye drop bottle

Ingrid Otaola Zarraga was wandering around the mangroves when she came across a small bottle that unearthed a big part of the WA town's multicultural past.

ABC News · Apr 23, 2022

Juvenile crime is impacting tourists' plans to visit Western Australia's Kimberley, operators say

Tourism operators say despite the reputational damage caused by increased youth crime, visitors should not be afraid to travel to the region during the upcoming dry season.

ABC News · Apr 21, 2022

Kimberley communities' clarion call for state support to combat COVID

Limited access to rapid antigen test kits, insufficient health services, a food shortage and overcrowding in homes has led Western Australia's remote Kimberley communities to say they feel 'abandoned' in the state government's response to remote COVID outbreaks.

ABC News · Apr 14, 2022

Kimberley pastoral partnership boosts job prospects for Indigenous youth, fills vacancies

Pastoralists in Western Australia's remote north have partnered with traditional owners to create jobs for young Aboriginal people, an arrangement built on "mutual respect".

ABC News · Apr 5, 2022

WA State Solicitor's Office investigating Kimberley Land Council's charitable trust

The managers of the trust say they have nothing to hide and are fully cooperating with an independent review as well as a state investigation.

ABC News · Apr 4, 2022

Staff send 'big love' to customers of new craft ale shop in Kimberley

The opening evening was 'amazing'

Nottingham Post · Apr 3, 2022

Coroner urges quick action to save 'current generation' in findings into Child J's suicide in state care

An inquest finds that while everyone did all they could to help Child J, there were still missed opportunities to prevent the Kimberley teen from taking his own life in state care.

ABC News · Mar 21, 2022

‘They thought they could hide’: the Aboriginal tracker who brought massacre perpetrators to trial

James Noble’s harrowing discovery on the banks of the Forrest River in 1926 helped uncover a trail of slaughter across WA’s east Kimberley and continues to haunt his descendants

The Guardian - AU · Mar 19, 2022

Opposition accuses government of intimidating Kimberley education worker who leaked attendance data

Brock Burston's criminal trial highlighted dire school attendance rates at Halls Creek District High School and WA's Opposition says he should not be punished for his actions.

ABC News · Mar 17, 2022