Customers who booked "once-in-a-lifetime" holidays to Western Australia's north are left in limbo after a business loan went wrong for a luxury cruise company.

With final advice due by the end of the year, critics point to Woodside's own modelling to sink the $30 billion gas project. 

Cases of animal cruelty in the Kimberley have jumped 25 per cent which animal advocates say is linked to owners' financial stress.

The ETU accuses BHP of illegally removing elected representatives at the miner's Port Hedland operations, while the mining giant claims the union's representatives were acting aggressively towards a female staffer.

An operation by Elon Musk's SpaceX and the federal government successfully retrieves a rocket some 24 days after it landed in the Indian Ocean off Christmas Island.

Nightclubs and other venues in Western Australia's far north are hiring fly-in-fly-out DJs to attract audiences and keep them coming.

One Nation's popularity is skyrocketing in opinion polls across the east coast. But next Saturday's Secret Harbour by-election will be the first clear test of whether that momentum is extending across the Nullarbor.