It has been a bumper 12 months for news in regional Western Australia in the year that was 2014.
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In the days leading up to the new year Fairfax Regional Media WA is taking a look back at all the news that happened in 2014.
Here's an overview of the biggest stories in March.
MANDURAH: A feast of culinary delights were served up at the Mandurah Crab Fest.
BUNBURY: Classique Ivory and jockey Shaun O’Donnell claimed victory in the 2014 Bunbury Cup – the feature event of the South West Autumn Racing carnival.
WAGIN: A big crowd enjoyed a tough competition in all areas of the Wagin Woolorama.
MOORA: Two police sniffer dogs were conveyed to town for a planned drug bust in Kintore Street.
ESPERANCE: A Perth-based doctor said Esperance was blighted by a hidden drug addiction problem and is one of the worst affected country towns in the state.
COLLIE: Police were confronted with a range of dangerous booby traps using nails, fish hooks and razor blades when they raided a Mary Street home.
COWARAMUP: Tragedy struck just minutes into Cowaramup’s 24 hour Delirium cycling race when a Busselton participant collapsed and died.
MOORA: More than 9000 students, spanning three generations, remember Central Midlands Senior High School teacher Phill Farley for his deep sense of loyalty towards them and their education.
MARGARET RIVER: Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church took to social media to attack Margaret River Senior High School students for performing The Laramie Project – a play about gay highschool student Matthew Shepard who was bashed to death for his sexuality in America in the late 1990s.
BUNBURY: Brett Peter Cowan, who was born in Bunbury, was found guilty of the murder of 13-year-old schoolboy Daniel Morcombe in Queensland in 2003.
BUSSELTON: Rhys Assan became a YouTube sensation by clocking up almost 200,000 views of a bizarre encounter he filmed with a Mahi Mahi fish at Wonnerup Beach.