SEVERE WEATHER WARNING This is what it looks like in Kalgoorlie at the moment. A downpour has turned roads into rivers. Thanks to Tilly from Kalgoorlie for sending this in! Parts of the Goldfields, Gascoyne, Eucla and Central Wheatbelt are being urged to take action with severe thunderstorms on the way. | 7NEWS Regional WA

Kalgoorlie, the largest city in the Australian Outback, now has a new and improved weather radar. Local communities, farmers and industries in WA's surrounding Goldfields region can start accessing the new state-of-the-art technology on our website http://ow.ly/QZ5a50FjyqF or on the #BOMweather app. New features include Doppler wind images to improve the tracking of winds, as well as better quality rainfall images and severe storm prediction. The upgrade is part of the most significant upgrade t

👷⛏️FLASHBACK FRIDAY⌛🤩 Check out this amazing footage from the ABC archives of gold miners working underground at Kalgoorlie's Mt Charlotte mine in 1970. 🎥 ABC Archives | ABC Goldfields-Esperance

Today marks the 41st anniversary of the worst disaster in the history of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. On April 30, 1981, an RFDS flight to save an infant child was returning to Kalgoorlie from Jameson in the remote Ngaanyatjarra Lands. The plane was hit by a severe dust storm and it collided with the Chaffers mine headframe on the Golden Mile. Pilot Arthur Turner, flight nurse Judith Osborne, passenger Alexander Coxall and 18-month-old patient Stephen Lane died in the crash. A 16-year-old gi