The Latest Breaking News from Kimberley

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.

Roads have turned into rivers, cows are struggling to survive in fast flowing waters and boats have become the only form of transport in parts of the central Kimberley as ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie continues to batter northern Australia.

Last week, four Indonesian fishermen were convicted for taking shark fins and poaching fish in Australian waters. The four men were spotted off remote Niiwalarra/Sir Graham Moore island in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, more than 150 nautical miles inside Australia’s exclusive economic zone.