Madina Jaffari

The Touré brothers snuck into their local football field after hours to play the game they loved, while the Yengi brothers kicked around makeshift balls made of plastic bags. Two of them have now made it onto the world stage as Socceroos.

A new community hub developed by a group of women in a remote mining town in Western Australia is hoping to tackle local issues from a fresh perspective.

With cases and exposure sites growing, authorities say locals should be alert, but not alarmed.

Western Australia records 222 local COVID-19 cases, as the current outbreak spreads to a remote Indigenous community.

Richard Kanari left his job in the Northern Territory and moved to Western Australia to be near ailing wife Kathryn, one of the many being treated at kidney clinics far from home.

A youth crisis accommodation service says they’ve noticed positive changes after the mandatory COVID-19 policy implemented in 2020, but says they’re having to turn away young people every day and calls for necessary changes to be made.

The people of Warakurna are doing everything to keep COVID out of their community, but they fear despite best efforts the virus will reach them via a back road.

Workers like Sharifah Nakintu are abandoning WA Health jobs just when they're needed most and her concerns are echoed by industry leaders, including the AMA.

New to the country, a migrant helps Muslim communities in regional Western Australia source culturally appropriate products through an online business he did not plan for.

An elderly Western Australian man has been charged after he allegedly took an 84-year-old woman from her aged care facility, driving across regional WA towards the Northern Territory border.

Ali Agha Rezaie's family is stuck in Afghanistan, but here in Australia he's stuck wondering whether it will ever be possible to achieve permanent residency.

Two-up was once a male pursuit, with females banned from participating. Now women — migrant women, in particular — are keeping the traditional Australian pastime alive.

An Albany man has been charged after allegedly removing a monitoring tag from a great white shark and using it to set off warning buoys multiple times.

Ambiguity over recent dog policy signs has left a southern WA shire and its local dog owners in prolonged conflict.

Timber company left floundering following the government's snap decision to end hardwood logging by 2024.

Scientists have recorded more than 1,100 earthquakes in Western Australia's South West over a recent eight-month period.

ABC journalist Madina Jaffari fled Afghanistan as a child. Now she's devastated it's happening to thousands more.

A small WA town, already home to an established Afghan community, says it will welcome more refugees, as they will provide a much-needed boost to the workforce.

As they fear for the safety of their families stuck in Afghanistan, Afghan communities in WA are urging the Australian government to expedite visa approvals and review the current visa policies.

A housing complex designed to keep Aboriginal people from sleeping rough on Albany's streets has sat empty for more than two years, prompting a plea from elders.

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.

A south coast's surf life saving club's buildings are under threat of collapse from severe erosion caused by recent heavy swells and rainfall.

Drivers should think twice about breaking the law on regional WA roads with dashcams helping police by catching idiotic behaviour on camera.

A debate over freedom of speech breaks out after a religious lobby group is rejected from hiring a publicly owned venue in Albany.

A group of gel blasters who meet regularly for games on Western Australia's south coast say a ban on the weapon is unfair.