Andrew Chounding is a digital and video journalist with the ABC working on Western Australia's south coast. He was the state health reporter with the Launceston Examiner, in Tasmania, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a general news reporter with the ABC in Kalgoorlie and Esperance, before relocating to the City of Albany as the ABC's rural and resources reporter for the Great Southern. In 2024, Andrew joined the ABC's State and Territory News Investigation Team.
A long-time winemaker says he opened his door to explosions and a black ball of smoke as a fire caused by a cordless screwdriver destroyed a lifetime collection of tools and machinery.
Farmers converge on a small country town for a rare sight as 100 vintage Caterpillar tractors are put on display from across Western Australia, some a century old.
Farmers and scientists have teamed up to take Western Australia's truffle industry into the future.
Debby Butler was about to board a flight to Perth for surgery to help her walk again when a call came through cancelling the operation for the second time in weeks.
Police charge a 28-year-old man after he allegedly stole two vehicles and crashed one into a petrol station in Western Australia's south, with the moment of impact caught on CCTV.
As Nat Fyfe's Fremantle Dockers finals dreams stay alive in the AFL, his childhood club now has to wait til next year for another tilt.
Albany police tell an inquest into the likely suicide of a 24-year-old man at The Gap, on WA's South Coast, that a support line at the location may help reduce the potential for further deaths.
Albany's population is skyrocketing as sea-changers flock to the region, but a crisis is brewing away from its multi-million-dollar coastline.
A man from the state's south-west who exchanged sexually explicit images of children potentially as young as three on a message app is given a backdated 10-month jail term.
Once bustling hives of activity, empty shopfronts are now a feature of the Bunbury and Albany CBDs. So what can southern WA's largest cities do to revive them?
As police investigate the circumstances surrounding the fatal train crash, locals in Redmond say the railway crossing has been a long-term hazard.
In Western Australia, scientists are urging the state government to change its program of planned forest burns.
The grain train hit the vehicle at a level crossing near Redmond, on the outskirts of Albany.
A group of Australia's top environmental scientists calls for changes to prescribed burning after government documents confirm hundreds of trees in an ecological hotspot have been destroyed by a government-lit fire.
The family of Bronwyn Clark say they are desperate for answers after she was fatally struck by a car in Albany.
WA Police Minister Reece Whitby says officials from two states have reached out to discuss its strict new gun law reforms as firearm control groups call for a national approach.
One of the country's original wind farms, Albany Grasmere, could break new ground, with its owners considering the largest domestic upgrade of its infrastructure.
The felling of what is estimated to be hundreds of tingle trees in a burn last December has sparked fresh calls for a review of prescribed burning in WA.
The owners of Bremer Bay Resort say Western Power told them purchasing a diesel generator was the only way to avoid the outages plaguing the small community.
A co-op wind farm in Denmark, Western Australia is one of hundreds of "mid-level" energy projects being developed across Australia amid a growing trend of community-led investment.
The West Australian roads authority has drawn fire for bulldozing and closing off a rest stop that illegal campers used as a dumping ground.
Reports that a meteorite had landed somewhere in Western Australia a week ago had scientists mapping out its likely path and searching the vast state for clues.
Reports that a meteorite had landed somewhere in Western Australia a week ago had scientists mapping out its likely path and searching the vast state for clues.
A fireball dubbed the Mother's Day Meteorite has been found in a salt lake in Western Australia by a country police officer and a university team known as the Desert Fireball Network.
Authorities have rescued a man with an injured ankle stuck in a tricky location on Bluff Knoll, in Western Australia's Great Southern.