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Black smoke is expected to drift across the area in the coming days after the latest fire burned through 440 hectares at the weekend.

Police say two female officers were bitten by a woman, while another officer was attacked by a dog, as a home was engulfed in flames in South Hedland.

The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia says its lawyers are paid up to $42,000 a year less than they would at Legal Aid WA, making attraction and retention difficult.

Over 38 pages and 25 towns, police have gone into intense detail about the extent of regional Western Australia's alcohol problem.

WA's deputy coroner backs police over their conduct in the fatal shooting of Ashley Dean Fildes after he stabbed several people in a South Hedland shopping centre while in the midst of a psychotic episode.

While the fly-in, fly-out structure is not ideal, a support service boss says it will help in a remote region where recruiting expert staff has been difficult.

Antonio Murray, who had a request for an interpreter dismissed during a trial, has had his conviction quashed over what a statewide Aboriginal language service calls a "basic human right". 

A crime scene has been established and police are urging anyone with information to come forward.

Australia is the only developed country to still have endemic trachoma, an infection that causes blindness. A project bringing basic services — including haircuts — to remote communities is working to change that.

This mother-of-two says she has been offered promotions, but with "limited day care options", she can't accept a role that requires more commitment. And she is not the only one.

The Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura who suffered the destruction of a 46,000-year-old rock shelter by a mining company say debate on WA's new legislation have been sidetracked.

Sharon Westerman lost her son in a mine incident seven years ago. Each time a person dies on a Western Australian work site she is transported back to that horrific day.

Traditional owners in Port Hedland say they were not consulted before the local council carried out work which allegedly left ancient fossilised footprints "desecrated" and threatened rock engravings.

Billions of dollars is poured into mining in remote Australia, so why don't the lights stay on in nearby communities? 

A Port Hedland leader says the site where a mother murdered her children should be turned into a place of comfort and beauty but the state government says it is still contemplating what to do with it.    

Margaret Hawke will learn of her punishment today for the murder of her three children, just hours after seeking support, in a tragedy prompting calls for more mining revenue to be channelled back into the Port Hedland community.

Pastoralists across Western Australia's Pilbara region are facing a mammoth clean-up in the wake of severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa.

Extra emergency personnel are en route to Port Hedland,  Broome and Karratha, as Tropical Cyclone Ilsa is set to become the first category four cyclone to hit WA's north-west coast in a decade.

Niall Cooke told the ABC in 2018 he wanted to expose the lucrative black market for Australian wildlife, but five years later he has appealed against a heavy fine after being caught with snakes, lizards and a turtle.

Indigenous leaders in the Pilbara say more work is needed to gain support for the Voice to Parliament as many in the community continue to question whether it will be able to meaningfully address the issues they face.