Alys Marshall

Industry members say a pastoral company's negligence led to the deaths of hundreds of cattle and the dumping of abattoir waste in an unfenced paddock that other cattle have access to.

Less than a century ago, Indigenous men were paid in small stone "coupons" for their work on cattle stations. Now, Mervyn Street has helped win those workers and their families landmark compensation.

The WA government has reached agreement with claimants acting for thousands of Aboriginal Australians across the state paid little or no wages.

Businesses across northern Australia are chasing a Kimberley beef company for significant unpaid debts, according to industry sources.

Drought-hit pastoralists say a bottleneck is preventing their beef getting to market at a reasonable price, and must be fixed.

With supply down by more than 50 per cent, WA supermarkets are struggling to fill shelves with the popular fragrant fruit amid an unusually light national harvest.

From fewer cyclones to higher temperatures and drier conditions, here's what an El Niño wet season has in store for northern Australia.

A world-class laboratory that will turn mother-of-pearl into a bone substitute opens in northern WA.

The Fitzroy Crossing bridge's completion is set to provide certainty for freight companies and tourists approaching the upcoming wet season.

Australia's legacy cotton country is once again bone-dry, but some of the area's largest growers have set their sights on an unlikely part of Australia where the grass might just be greener.

Sandalwood giant Quintis has sold 363 hectares of its Kununurra sandalwood portfolio to northern cattle identity Sterling Buntine as the price of the heartwood continues to drop.

It's three times more likely to occur than an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, but Australia still has no vaccine bank for lumpy skin disease — and vets are worried.

While a temporary two-lane crossing has provided relief during the construction of the new Fitzroy Crossing bridge, it will be closed from today for the wet season.

More than half the bushfires in the Kimberley are deliberately lit, with residents worrying that arson has become the new norm.

As a new mother on a picturesque cattle station, Maddie told her friends and family she was happy. The reality was the opposite. But an unexpected conversation changed everything for the better.

Shipments of mangoes to WA from the NT and Queensland could be halted if a proposed ban of a crucial chemical is implemented.

After five years and millions of dollars spent on consultation, community leaders say the government's backflip has left them deeply disheartened.

Twenty-year-old Emily Banks wins the Kimberley's Jewel of the North campdrafting competition in a field of competitive riders from the NT and WA.

Australia's largest seafood producer buys the country's only ocean-based barramundi farm, situated off the Kimberley coast.

Industry sources confirm that Consolidated Pastoral Company's export yards, located 30 kilometres from Kununurra, are one of four facilities suspended by Indonesia due to the detection of lumpy skin disease in livestock shipped from Australia.

Australia's cattle industry says the Commonwealth's offer of compensation over the 2011 live export ban was "not within a bull's roar" of the cost on producers, so will fight it out in court.

Biosecurity groups in Western Australia are concerned a halt to government-run aerial culling operations will allow feral animal numbers to get out of control in pastoral areas. 

Cattle producers in WA who are supplying beef to domestic and international markets are feeling the pain of sudden price drops.

While numbers of this tiny endangered bird are on the rise elsewhere, Gouldian finches are nowhere to be seen in this Kimberley environmental buffer designed to protect them.

Police say a woman is helping them with their enquiries, after the death of another woman found seriously injured outside a leisure centre in far northern Western Australia Saturday morning.