A Narrogin man, who admitted to indecent dealing with his underage stepdaughter, has avoided an immediate jail term.

The City of Albany has denied there has been delays in upgrades to the city's Anzac precinct.

Residents in the Great Southern town of Broomehill West have expressed frustration over a lack of information during a recent blackout.

A Denmark man has been charged with attempting to use a hidden camera to film his teenage stepdaughter while she showered.

A Denmark man has pleaded guilty to more than 50 charges relating to filming, or attempting to film, his teenage step-daughter.

Several accommodation providers in Albany have expressed frustration at delays in finalising plans for the city's Anzac centenary commemorations.

The names of towns, roads and localities of central and western NSW are a treasure trove of toponymy, or the study of name origins, but their meanings also provide powerful connection for people and the places they call home.

Thousands of fish which became trapped in a NSW pond after flooding in 2016 have been returned to the Macquarie River after a painstaking effort to keep them alive.

Burrendong Dam is expected to run out of water by early 2020

The largest local council in New South Wales, whose patch includes the Darling River town that experienced mass fish kills, will spend another four years in administration.

Indigenous dancers from three states gather on the banks of the Darling River to honour a waterway that's underpinned their cultures for millennia.

Heavy rainfall has filled up dams in the drought-stricken region of Coolabah in New South Wales.(credit: Anthony Hyde)

75mm of rain has fallen in the drought-affected town of Girilambone in NSW, filling up dams in the region and bringing relief to farmers.

Academic and former Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani argues that the coronavirus pandemic will accelerate a power-shift, from west to east.

Daniel McCarthy assesses the mood and politics of a country desperate to get back to normal.  

WA has now posted six days in a row without a new case of COVID-19 after no new cases were recorded overnight, with 95 per cent of people who contracted the virus in the state now recovered.

From a scattering of fans to stadiums at near-capacity, women's cricket has come a long way in the last decade since Australia won its first women's T20 World Cup.

Mitchell Starc comes home early from South Africa to watch his wife Alyssa Healy play for Australia in the T20 World Cup final — and criticises the lack of reserve days which nearly saw the hosts eliminated.

From small crowds and no coverage to filling the biggest stadium in Australia — the speed of the change in women's cricket defies belief, writes Geoff Lemon.