The Latest Breaking News from Kalgoorlie

Lynas Rare Earths has been awarded a contract by the US Department of Defence to build a processing facility in Texas.

Business owners in WA's Goldfields say they are thousands of dollars out of pocket due to extended blackouts on Sunday and Wednesday, and are calling on Western Power to fix the issues with its network.

Jordan Williams died after escaping from Kalgoorlie Hospital's mental health unit where, a coroner says, conditions were so poor some psychiatrists refused to work there.

Home to 30,000 people, the inland city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder has not had an outdoor pool for 23 years.

The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder is in talks with airlines to reinstate an eastern states air link to the regional mining city as it embarks on a $3.7 million upgrade of its airport runway — the first significant works in nearly 30 years.

A 29-year-old Kalgoorlie man who arranged to sell a high-powered rifle illegally has avoided an immediate prison term, just days after Crime Stoppers and WA Police launched a new campaign targeting illegal firearms.

For the first time since 1981, Australia's regional population grew more than capital cities in 2020-21 but, even with mining on the up, Kalgoorlie-Boulder bucked the trend.

The amount of gold mined from Kalgoorlie's famous Golden Mile may never be known according to an amateur historian who says the records could be out by about $1.7 billion in today's money.

Scott Morrison says a $1.17 billion nickel mine in WA's Goldfields region will be fast-tracked, granting it Major Project Status after being deemed of importance to national resource security.