The Latest Breaking News from Kalgoorlie

The Diggers and Dealers forum may be the highlight of the mining industry's social calendar, but this year's event also brings an agenda of challenging issues.

While the circumstances of the miner's death remains a mystery, Paul Tamati Ereka Martin's name was this week published in a memorial at the request of his family to mark the first anniversary of his death.

West Australian mining tycoon Ron Sayers has died after building a mining services company from a single drill rig in Kalgoorlie-Boulder into a billion-dollar global empire.

The Kalgoorlie-Boulder Chamber of Commerce and Industry says the lack of new housing is causing mining companies to price locals out of the market.

The owners of Kalgoorlie's Super Pit say they are only scratching the surface after releasing the first results from a new underground drilling campaign.

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.