The Latest Breaking News from Kimberley

A report tabled in parliament on the plans found there were "multiple points of failure" in the Education Department's efforts to get students back to school in the remote Kimberley town of Halls Creek.

There had also been public disorder

It's a nervous time for WA's easternmost farmers with myrtle rust officially in the Kimberley and other biosecurity threats creeping closer to the state border.

After the Juukan Gorge scandal, Rio Tinto and traditional owners are in tough negotiations about what's left behind at Argyle in Western Australia's Kimberley region following 37 years of mining diamonds.

As the latest annual Koolendong exercises come to a close in Western Australia, a soldier says his brigade learned lessons — but experts are divided on its significance.

Whale researchers are "distressed" by footage of a boat hitting a whale at high speed off Broome and urge people to keep clear of humpbacks migrating north along Western Australia's coastline to a key breeding zone.

The Anglo-Dutch energy giant says a lockout aboard their facility off the Kimberley coast will not proceed due to safety and emergency response concerns, as industrial negotiations with the union grind to a halt.

WA's Education Minister Sue Ellery once described efforts to address a truancy crisis in Halls Creek as "amazing". Now her department is investigating as families accuse the government of botching school attendance plans.

Changes in the NT and an ongong inquiry into banning bottleshops from selling everything but light beer will test the way forward for potential liquor restrictions in the Pilbara and Kimberley.