The Latest Breaking News from Kalgoorlie

Kalgoorlie's suicide rate is among the highest in Australia, but despite a $5.7-billion surplus the WA government is yet to commit to a new mental health facility that a coroner says is crucial for the region.

Lynas Rare Earths has been awarded a contract by the US Department of Defence to build a processing facility in Texas.

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.

For the first time since 1981, Australia's regional population grew more than capital cities in 2020-21 but, even with mining on the up, Kalgoorlie-Boulder bucked the trend.

The amount of gold mined from Kalgoorlie's famous Golden Mile may never be known according to an amateur historian who says the records could be out by about $1.7 billion in today's money.