Runway works underway to boost capacity in Kununurra

The $19.1 million runway extension, which will allow larger aircraft to operate to the airport unrestricted, was funded by $15.1 million from the Commonwealth, $2.5 million from the WA Government and $1.5 million from the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley.

The multi-agency exercise saw WSI staff participate alongside around 300 volunteers and emergency services personnel, as well as federal agencies, and included a full-scale response to a simulated aircraft incident. Fifty emergency services vehicles we…