The Latest Breaking News from Kimberley

From souvenir shops to art galleries, First Nations designs are big business. Australia’s Productivity Commission estimates about $250 million of Indigenous-style art and consumer products are sold annually. But just 16% of that ends up in the hands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.

Liquor outlets in Derby's West Kimberley, voting to restrict their own sales in a bid to better protect victims of domestic violence and other alcohol-related crime, have been commended by local police.

The proposed changes were flagged at an invitation-only meeting held by the WA government in Broome on Tuesday.

Traditional owners are working on a wet season seed smoking trial to restore native vegetation at the Argyle diamond mine site, closed by Rio Tinto in 2020.

Extensive flood damage across the region has left markets inaccessible and forces WA's major northern abattoir to pause operations between Broome and Derby.

After three soggy years of La Niña in a row, Australia has endured record-breaking floods, the latest of which has inundated the Kimberley in Western Australia and across north and central Queensland.

Wild weather events are playing out over much of the country, with many states facing either extreme storms, floods or bushfires.

WA premier warns recovery efforts will take time after what he describes as the worst floods the state has ever seen

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As floodwaters surge down the Fitzroy River, Derby is the latest town to be cut off and Broome is expected to follow amid a "one-in-100-year deluge" that's led to special Australian Defence Force aircraft being called in.

Record flooding on the Fitzroy River is causing havoc across the Kimberley, with authorities warning many communities could be cut off for a week.