Local News
4:01 AM AWST | A student had a lucky escape on Tuesday morning when she was left with minor injuries after stepping out into the path of an oncoming vehicle on the Coolgardie-Esperance Highway at Scaddan.
4:00 AM AWST | ESPERANCE residents will soon be able to have their say on a plan to build a rock-based seawall between Kemp Street and the tanker jetty and a headland to stop erosion along the coastline.
4:00 AM AWST | INCOMING O’Connor representative-elect Tony Crook could decide as soon as today if he will join the coalition ranks or represent the electorate as an independent.
31 Aug 10 | KATRINA Stewart, the new president of St John Ambulance, has taken over the reins of this organisation she loves
31 Aug 10 | A 37-YEAR-OLD Esperance man has allegedly admitted to 16 counts of stealing.
31 Aug 10 | THE Minister for Transport Simon O'Brien was in Esperance on Friday and said he was pleased with the progress of the Esperance Clean-up and Recovery Project
31 Aug 10 | A LOCAL man who was travelling in an easterly direction along Twilight Beach Road on Thursday afternoon veered his vehicle trying to avoid a small animal.
31 Aug 10 | ESPERANCE Freight Lines (EFL) was named as the 2010 Cliffs Business of the Year at the Esperance Chamber of Commerce and Industries’ (ECCI) gala awards night at the Esperance Civic Centre on Friday night.
26 Aug 10 | STARTUP and small businesses will soon be able get help from more experienced businesses under a new plan unveiled last week.
26 Aug 10 | A 68-YEAR-OLD Esperance man - stepfather of the teenager who took a loaded shotgun to Esperance Senior High School earlier this month - has been charged with firearm related offences.
26 Aug 10 | THE Esperance Shire Council has narrowly approved a bid to locate a decommissioned Leopard tank near the RSL headquarters in Dempster Street.
26 Aug 10 | THE women upon whom the play Captive Wives was based gave a ringing endorsement to the production which chronicles their lives when it premiered at the Bijou Theatre last Friday.
26 Aug 10 | INCREASING traffic along Goldfields Road has prompted concerned parents and the Castletown Primary School Parents and Citizens group to call for volunteers to man a crossing at Matthews Street.
26 Aug 10 | THE Esperance Community Fundraising Group (ECFG) has been awarded a three-year permit to run the Esperance Markets at the Museum Village, starting next month.
25 Aug 10 | SHEEP are being shorn, cattle spruced up and fences strung in preparation for the Esperance Farm Training Centre’s annual open day on Wednesday, September 1.
25 Aug 10 | NATIONALS’ Tony Crook’s election win in O’Connor on Saturday is an exciting development for the Esperance region, according to community leaders.
25 Aug 10 | AFTER 30 years as the Federal member for O’Connor Liberal MHR Wilson Tuckey has been ousted by a political newcomer, the West Australian Nationals’ Tony Crook.
20 Aug 10 | LOCAL residents will be able to witness some spectacular motorsport action at the Pink Lake sand dunes and between Wylie Bay and Bandy Creek Boat Harbour when the 2010 Australasian Safari hits Esperance on Saturday, September 25.
20 Aug 10 | THERE was a mini-invasion of Victorian tourists on Monday as more than 330 crew members and officials taking part in the 2010 Variety Victoria Bash passed through town.
20 Aug 10 | WORK at the Esperance Hospital commenced this week to prepare a room to house the CT Scanner.