The Latest Breaking News from Kimberley

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.

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.

A court has been told four men were charged after being seen in waters off the West Australian Kimberley coast just six days after Australian navy crew members had previously asked them to leave.

Police confirm Kelsey Bell is safe and well after being found a short time ago about 20 kilometres from her abandoned vehicle, but the search for Wylie Oscar continues.

In the 2000s wildfires raged in the Kimberley until a huge increase in planned burning reduced their impact. But climate change means that success is far from guaranteed into the future.

As Australia's cane toad invasion inches closer to conquering the Kimberley, innovative research using their corpses could protect populations of freshwater crocodiles in their path.

The three new marine parks will cover more than 600,000 hectares of Kimberley coastline throughout the Buccaneer Archipelago.