The Latest Breaking News from Broome

Broome's Japanese history uncovered with find of cocaine eye drop bottle

Ingrid Otaola Zarraga was wandering around the mangroves when she came across a small bottle that unearthed a big part of the WA town's multicultural past.

ABC News · Apr 23, 2022

Machine gun believed linked to WWII Japanese air raids on display in Broome museum

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.

ABC News · Apr 20, 2022

COVID surge exposes 'disorganised' WA response in remote communities

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.

ABC News · Apr 16, 2022

Loss of culture, lack of legal support direct children to Banksia Hill detention while parents feel helpless

This mother has lived in the Kimberley for 30 years, but she cannot grow old in her own home because she is helping her children break the cycle of youth crime.

ABC News · Apr 6, 2022

Chronic worker shortage persists as peak tourism season approaches in WA paradise

Shayne Murray has spent $30,000 in the past year trying to attract 12 staff for his taxi company in Broome, but has filled just one vacancy. He's one of many scrambling to find workers ahead of peak season.

ABC News · Mar 27, 2022

Coroner urges quick action to save 'current generation' in findings into Child J's suicide in state care

An inquest finds that while everyone did all they could to help Child J, there were still missed opportunities to prevent the Kimberley teen from taking his own life in state care.

ABC News · Mar 21, 2022

Nine Indonesian fishermen feared drowned after boat capsizes off WA's far northern coast

Australian authorities have rescued three of the 12 aboard, with one man transferred from Broome to Perth in a critical condition.

ABC News · Mar 21, 2022

'Food-driven' Julia the pig turns 10 after making friends all over Broome

Julia is as happy as a pig in mud. Not only has she escaped the cooking pot, the "200-and-something" kilogram pet spends her time roaming the streets of Broome in search of food and friends.

ABC News · Mar 16, 2022

Broome's new sobering-up shelter location out of town leaves people opting to sleep rough

Some people are opting to sleep rough instead of heading to a new sobering-up shelter because it is a 10-minute drive out of town.

ABC News · Mar 13, 2022

Broome residents rescue hordes of long-footed frogs from swimming pools

When Stacey Larke woke to find more than 300 tiny brown frogs in her swimming pool, she was baffled.

ABC News · Mar 6, 2022