The Latest Breaking News from Erin Parke

Thought snakes and crocodiles were the main hazard in the outback? Think again. Motoring experts say after the big wet season cars are catching alight due to vegetation growth.

Kalumburu Aboriginal community sits at the gateway to some of the country's more remote and spectacular country, but has turned travellers away since the pandemic emerged in early 2020.

Health authorities say they are in a race to control a syphilis outbreak that started in northern Australia.

Worrorra man Pete O'Connor says he was "definitely the sickest" he'd ever been when he got the flu this season, in a region where about 10 per cent of cases have resulted in hospitalisation.

More than 100 nightclubs have closed in recent years, with industry veterans reporting young people are ditching dancefloors for dating apps.

Some community leaders worry Labor's pledge to scrap controversial welfare management programs could further fuel binge drinking and child neglect in regional areas, while others cannot wait to see it gone.

Cash payments are hitting the bank accounts of 6 million Australians, but recipients say it's a "drop in the ocean" as living costs spike.

Close inspection of the weapon, pulled from the ocean floor off Broome by two unwitting fishers, shows bullets still inside, including an exploded cartridge believed to have come apart during an attack by the Japanese in 1942.

Hundreds are sent into isolation in government-booked hotel rooms in remote northern WA, while others are forced to bunker down in houses with up to 18 people.