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Five construction workers were taken to hospital after being hit by a crane this morning at the Boddington Gold Mine.
Reports say the workers were working on the 40m crane when two slings fell off, c |
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Colin Barnett yesterday flagged a series of partnerships with the private sector to help struggling State-owned generator Verve build newer, more efficient, power stations although ruled out privatisi |
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A woman was found dead in a driveway of a vacant house in Broome this morning.
Police were called about 8.30am and arrived at the Anne Street house to find her body.
She is believed to be aged betwe |
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A busy mother is immensely relieved after being reunited with her toddler son, who sparked a frantic police search after he was found walking down a Beeliar street alone.
Raelene Camarda has been reu |
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A bush fire which threatened homes in Wundowie this afternoon is now under control.
Fire crews have contained the fire, which was burning near Werribee Road, Burma Road and McMullen Road.
To preven |
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Motorists travelling south for the long weekend face a slow drive along Kwinana Freeway, with traffic banked back to Powis Street on the Mitchell Freeway.
Heading north on the Mitchell Freeway, traff |
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A 40 percent fall in operating surplus over the last six months has the WA Government cautious about its financial position despite an increase in mining royalties and an overall $1.186 billion surplu |
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The body of a beheaded kangaroo was found in bush near Ellenbrook this morning, following what has been an upsetting spate of attacks on kangaroos in recent months.
A bushwalker found the body of the |
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Elevated algae levels in the Canning River have dropped significantly.
The Swan River Trust detected the elevated levels of the blue-green alga Anabaena circinalis between the Kent Street Weir in Wil |
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The chief executive officer of West Australian Newspapers Holdings, Chris Wharton, plans to make the company"s suite of newspapers and other publications more "relevant and compelling".
Outlining his |
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Residents living in coastal communities from Wallal to Exmouth and nearby inland areas are being warned to prepare for a cyclone as a tropical low continues to develop off the coast. The communities o |
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A 12-year-old girl who had been missing in the Mandurah area for more than two weeks has been found.
Monique Dejong was located safe this morning. She had been missing since never returning from scho |
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Despite his fall from grace, Ben Cousins remains WA football"s favourite son as 143,000 people last night watched his return to AFL after an 18 month break.
Cousins" debut for Richmond against Collin |
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The threat of flooding in the Pilbara has forced the Department of Environment and Conservation to close Millstream-Chichester National Park.
The park, 150km from Roebourne, has been closed ahead of |
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WA motorists were being "ripped off" by big oil companies because they were not passing on dramatic falls in the price of diesel, according to a leading analyst.
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The State Government should take advantage of the slowing economy and falling car prices to remove old vehicles from the road and offer owners incentives to replace them with greener, safer options, a |
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With the threat of heavy rain to the West Pilbara this weekend, residents are being urged to reduce their water use.
Water Corporation North West regional business manager Evan Hambleton has called o |
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The East Perth Redevelopment Authority has flagged possible commercial and residential development sites along William Street in future stages of its planned rejuvenation of the Northbridge thoroughfa |
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More than five months after coming to power, the State Government yesterday fulfilled its election promise to abolish the contentious "levels" at the heart of outcomes-based education assessment. B |
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More pressure has been put on the public purse after WA"s firefighters yesterday endorsed an above-inflation pay deal that will cost an extra $10 million annually for three years. Nearly a year aft |
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The State Government is considering shelving plans for a $1.3 billion container port in Cockburn Sound to allow a consortium led by magnate Len Buckeridge to go ahead with its proposed private port. |
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"I am so scared sometimes that I will die — I don"t want to, but there is just nothing here to help me so what am I to do?" Meggan McCleary, 19, has been battling chronic anorexia nervosa for six y |
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Using audience-powered sewing machines, two travelling tailors brought a little sparkle to city workers prepared to take off their clothes for the sake of art yesterday. The Mobile Sewing Company s |
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Since European settlement the silhouette of fishermen trawling the Swan and Canning rivers in the misty dawn light with their nets cast wide has been a common sight. But declining fish stocks and a |
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A spectacular footbridge will be built between Heirisson Island and Point Fraser in East Perth within three years as Perth City Council pushes ahead with $4.5 million plans to create a sculpture park |
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Huge swaths of northern Australia, including The Kimberley, Northern Territory and Queensland, are home to the nation"s most disadvantaged indigenous people, a new study has found.
Research carried o |
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A third of WA children have been the victims of cyber-bullying, according to a survey of 3000 young people in the State.
Cyber bullies are using text messages, email and mobile phones to torment chil |
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The Bureau of Meteorology is advising Pilbara communities to prepare for widespread heavy rainfall and flooding expected to hit on Saturday.
A tropical low is forecast to develop over the next day, a |
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Police have cautioned students for assault after a fight was filmed at their high school and posted on video-sharing website YouTube.
A spate of student fights at North Albany Senior High School, man |
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Coldplay kicked off their Viva tour of Australia before 17,000 fans at Perth's Burswood Dome on Friday night.
At the first of two concerts in the west before moving on to Melbourne, the British band |
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The Education Department is set to supersize its school chairs, as children get too tall and fat for seats that were introduced only 20 years ago. The new chairs will be 4cm wider, 3cm deeper and 1 |
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Charges against property developer David McKenzie for giving false testimony to the Corruption and Crime Commission were dismissed yesterday after it emerged the CCC used the wrong name for a committe |
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Brigadoon residents have warned that development planned for the quiet Hills area would be vulnerable to the types of fires that have devastated Victoria and should not go ahead. According to Briga |
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Demand for disabled parking is predicted to double in Perth over the next 50 years because of the ageing and less mobile population. Obesity is also contributing to an increasing lack of mobility a |
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A South-West couple who allege Western Power is to blame for a fire which cost them their livelihood is set to sue the utility for more than $600,000. Kim and Andrew Brotherton, of Manjimup, are pu |
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Eight children and three adults were lucky to escape with their lives this morning as fire tore through a children"s hostel in Bedford.
The fire destroyed the hostel on Grand Promenade causing estima |
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Fire authorities believe a bush fire, which threatened homes in Wundowie late yesterday, was the work of arsonists.
The fire destroyed 6ha of bushland before being brought under control.
Fire fighte |
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Detectives have seized more than $8 million worth of cannabis plants from hidden plantations throughout the South-West after a week-long series of aerial raids. Det-Sgt. Paul Ford said police seize |
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Mining operations in the State"s North West have been suspended as the threat of a cyclone looms.
At 9am, the tropical Low was estimated to be 235km north of Port Hedland and 335km north north-east o |
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Officers from the major crime squad are investigating the discovery of a man"s body at a Geraldton home in the early hours of this morning.
The body was found at the back of a Hillview Street home in |
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For Catholic Archbishop Barry Hickey, the plight of Perth"s homeless is literally on his doorstep. Every evening, a constant stream of people who have nowhere else to go turn up at his modest home |
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The threat of a cyclone continues in the Pilbara as a tropical low moves towards the coast and is expected to move down towards the northern Goldfields over the next few days.
At noon, the tropical |
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Eight children aged 12 to 16 and three adults were lucky to escape with their lives this morning as fire tore through a children"s hostel in Bedford.
The fire, thought to have started in the hostel"s |
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Police are interviewing a person of interest in relation to the discovery of a man"s body at a Geraldton home this morning.
The body was found in the backyard of a home in Hillview Street in Drummond |
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All gorges in Karijini National Park in the State"s North West have been closed as the threat of a cyclone continues for the central Pilbara.
The chance of flash flooding or landslides has forced t |
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Recycled sewage will constitute as much as 10 per cent of Perth"s drinking water by 2030 under a new plan for the State"s water supply. In a draft policy on future water supplies to be released next |
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The only surviving World War I veteran in WA will be surrounded by a big family, including one great-great grandchild, when he celebrates his 108th birthday on Tuesday. British-born Claude Choules |
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Health Minister Kim Hames will write to WA nurses telling them to complain to their bosses if their hours are cut in a way that affects patient care, in his latest attempt to deflect criticism that fr |
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The cyclone which is threatening northern parts of the state has brought a warning of flash flooding issued this morning.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued the warning for the eastern inland parts of |
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A 41-year-old Westminster man has been charged over an alleged attack on his de-facto wife, who died a few days later in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
The man was charged with aggravated grievous bo |
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A 33-year-old Geraldton man will appear in court charged with grievous bodily harm following the death of a man in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The 41-year-old victim from the Spalding suburb |
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Residents in the northern Goldfields and Eucla have been warned to expect flash flooding over the next day.
The warning, issues by the Bureau of Meteorology at 2pm today, said a tropical low, located |
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Flooding has disrupted mining operations and cut some roads in the Pilbara, with a tropical low dumping up to 130mm of rain in some areas. Towns inland from Port Hedland, including Marble Bar, recorde |
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Thousands of dance music fans are at the Future Music Festival in Perth today for the first big festival in the city since 17-year-old Gemma Thoms died from an ecstasy overdose after the Big Day Out o |
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The battle to stop the cane toad from reaching WA has been lost, with one of the toxic pests discovered at the Northern Territory border near Kununurra. The adult toad was found about 8.30pm on Fri |
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WA Ballet dancers will take to the unusual surrounds of St George"s Cathedral in the lead-up to Easter for a performance of Mozart"s Requiem. They will be joined by singers and a chamber orchestra i |
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Thousands of electronic music fans braved hot, humid weather yesterday to kick up their heels to a host of top international acts at the Future Music Festival in East Perth"s Wellington Square. Whil |
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The widow of former Liberal MP Trevor Sprigg says it seems only fitting that two women have had their sight restored using her husband"s donated eye tissue because he was an avid reader and sports fan |
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WA"s myriad tourism gems have never been captured as spectacularly than in the hundreds of amazing photographs and descriptions sent to The West Australian"s Holidays at home competition. The judges |
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Heavy rain, damaging winds and flash flooding are expected to hit the Goldfields and Eucla today.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued flood alerts for the De Grey River, Gascoyne River and Goldfields |
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Arson squad detectives have been unable to establish the cause of a fire that destroyed a house in Northam yesterday.
The blaze caused an estimated $150,000 damage to the home in Barrow Street.
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Homes and lives were at risk from thousands of old and rotting wooden power poles, shadow energy minister Kate Doust said yesterday. She said an Economic Regulation Authority report in December fou |
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A molotov cocktail may have been used to ignite a blaze in Northbridge overnight, police believe.
Arson squad detectives are this morning sifting through the damage at a martial arts academy in Wellm |
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A martial arts academy and gym was firebombed in Northbridge overnight.
The building in Wellman Street is home to the Fight N Fitness, a martial arts and boxing centre and private gym.
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Police are investigating a shooting in the Bunbury suburb of Eaton yesterday.
A 30-year-old man has reportedly been charged over the Murdoch Drive incident.
There are no details yet about the victim |
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Police are investigating a suspicious death after a man"s body was found in the backyard of a home in Armadale this morning.
Police were called to the house in Gribble Avenue at 5am, where they found |
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Police have launched a murder investigation after a 32-year-old woman was found dead in the front yard of a Broome house.
The Kalumburu woman was discovered partially clothed outside the unoccupied h |
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The manager of a Northbridge gym firebombed overnight, star cage fighter Brian Ebersole, says he believes organised crime is out of control in Perth and he fears for his safety.
The Fitness N Fight |
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Flood levels are still rising in north-west WA today and people are trapped in their homes by impassable roads and rivers that are expected to burst their banks.
Warrawagine Station, 200 km east of P |
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A street shooting in the Bunbury suburb of Eaton left a man with shotgun pellet injuries to his face and back yesterday.
A 30-year-old man will face court tomorrow on charges of discharging a firearm |
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A busy network of ferries criss-crossing the Swan River will not be a sight in Perth for the foreseeable future after WA"s transport minister said today that his government would only look at the poss |
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Fire fighters are battling a bushfire in Mariginiup near Coogee Road and Pennygum Place.
The fire began shortly after 3.30pm and helitacs are assisting ground crews.
People who live in the area are |
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A low pressure system over the southern interior is expected to move south-east across the far eastern Eucla later today before clearing the State this evening.
However, heavy rain and thunderstorms |
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The bush fire burning in Mariginiup has been contained, but local residents are asked to remain alert if flare ups occur.
FESA said the fire, which has burnt about 80ha of bush in the northern suburb |
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The fire burning in Mariginiup which threatened homes in Coogee Road, Pennygum Place and Bronzewing Grove is now under control.
FESA said firefighters are currently mopping up and will monitor the ar |
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More accommodation, a new marina and extra boat moorings could be built at Rottnest under a new fiveyear management plan to be revealed today. The Rottnest Island Authority"s draft plan proposes ne |
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Firefighters will today begin an investigation into a blaze at North Beach shopping centre, which caused $500,000 of damage last night.
The fire started in a storage area near the IGA supermarket at |
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Apartment towers up to 20-storeys could join the Raffles Hotel units on the skyline as the State Government and local councils push ahead with plans to significantly increase residential development a |
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They are WA"s shark hunters, a once dying breed of fewer than 50 fishermen scattered along the WA west and south coasts who are seeing new life in their business. Based from Geraldton to Esperance, |
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Motorists have been advised to avoid the Kwinana Freeway under Canning Bridge this morning where traffic is very heavy.
One car is blocking the emergency lane and police are on their way to an accide |
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Scatterings of green shoots have started to emerge amid the ashes in fire-ravaged Kings Park. Steve Easton, Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority bushland manager, said the re-emergence of grevilleas |
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A teenage girl was taken to hospital with serious head injuries last night after she was hit by a car in Mount Lawley.
Police are appealing to the public for help in identifying the injured girl, who |
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Exam markers have delivered a scathing assessment of declining Year 12 literacy across a wide range of subjects, saying too many students are unable to structure coherent written answers. Widesprea |
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A disabled man, who lost both his legs in a work accident, has been missing from his Lathlain home since Saturday.
Wheelchair-bound Patrick Anthony Healy, aged 55, was last seen at 10.30pm.
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Motorists have been warned to expect delays this morning after a two-car crash at the intersection of Tonkin and Albany highways in Gosnells.
Traffic is also solid on the Mitchell Freeway south-bound |
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Two teenage boys have been charged after a taxi driver was attacked with a beer bottle in Langford in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Police will allege that the driver was assaulted when he we |
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Arson squad detectives are sifting through debris at two northern suburbs shopping centres this morning after separate fires overnight.
A blaze at North Beach shopping centre on West Coast Highway ca |
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A 32-year-old Armadale man will appear in court this morning over the death of a man after a street brawl in the suburb yesterday.
Detectives charged the man with grievous bodily harm after a 33-year |
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Perth has shivered through its coldest morning for the year with temperatures plunging to 7.7C at 7am.
Jandakot residents experienced an even chillier 4C at 7.19am.
But city dwellers can expect a mo |
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A man has been seriously injured after heavy logs fell on him at an industrial site in Cardup this morning.
It is understood the accident occurred just before 11am near the intersection of Shale Road |
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The State Government is pushing ahead with widespread mergers of local councils in WA, giving authorities a timetable to come up with plans to join with their neighbours within six months.
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Brookfield Multiplex has won a $220 million contract to manage the first stage of WA"s biggest-ever government building project.
The WA government today announced the appointment of the property gian |
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Colin Barnett has marked his Government"s six month anniversary by pledging to cut redundant agencies to get the State"s finances in order and promising to work with business to help avoid the worst o |
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A man is in a stable condition in hospital after reportedly being crushed by 500kg of wood at an industrial site in Cardup this morning.
It is understood the man opened the rear of a truck and was h |
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A diesel spill on Roe Highway is causing huge delays for motorists this afternoon. One lane is closed west-bound near Kenwick Link while maintenance crews clear up the spill caused by an earlier crash |
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Motorists heading south on the Kwinana Freeway should prepare for lengthy delays following a car crash this afternoon. The crash, involving two cars between Canning Highway and Manning Road, has block |
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An extreme fire danger warning has been issued for areas of the central Wheat Belt.
The Bureau of Meteorology said the central-west district and Mortlock sub division areas can expect fresh, gusty an |
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A crash at the intersection of Ocean Reef Road and Trappers Drive is causing delays for motorists in Woodvale.
Traffic heading out of the city on the Mitchell Freeway is slow moving through to Hepbur |
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An extreme fire danger warning has been issued for areas of the central Wheatbelt.
The Bureau of Meteorology said the central-west district and Mortlock sub division areas can expect fresh, gusty and |
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A woman has been flown to Royal Perth Hospital with multiple injuries after being rescued from a vehicle crash near Beverley.
The RAC Rescue 1 helicopter was sent to a car accident on Great Southern |
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Western Power workers are threatening State power supplies with strikes after being offered a deal their union claims will cut some workers" pay. The Australian Services Union has lodged a claim wi |
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A crop of multi-million-dollar projects that have escaped the scythe of the grim economic reaper are appearing on the skyline of East Perth, which is being aggressively targeted by developers. The |
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The biggest liner ever to dock at Fremantle blocked the horizon and dwarfed the port city yesterday. With 18 decks, a 700-seat theatre, five pools, nine restaurants, two nightclubs, 13 bars, shops |
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Floods across the Pilbara have delivered mixed blessings to outback pastoralists. Parched stations in eastern parts of the region rejoiced in the downpours while others were bracing for fence and s |
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West Coast says it has been forced to axe significant funding to netball because the State"s health promotion agency Healthway insists it cannot be a sponsor while the club accepts money from burger g |
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A woman is in a stable condition in Royal Perth Hospital after she was cut from her car in the Wheatbelt yesterday.
She suffered multiple injuries in the smash Great Southern Highway at Mt Kokeby, |
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A four-car accident in the northbound lanes of the Kwinana freeway is causing traffic delays this morning.
Motorists can expect congestion from about 1km south of Beeliar Drive.
In the Wheatbelt, a |
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All WA children aged six months to five years will again be able to receive a free influenza vaccination this winter.
Health Minister Dr Kim Hames encouraged parents to take advantage of the free vac |
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Plans to rebuild the fire-ravaged Wembley Downs shopping centre are set to go before council next week, which could give local residents their shopping hub back by Christmas. The Downs shopping cen |
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A truck driver escaped injury when his prime mover and trailer burst into flames on the Great Eastern Highway west of Meckering this morning.
The vehicle struck the side of a bridge about 1.46am. The |
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A seven-car accident on the Narrows Bridge southbound is causing delays this morning.Two of the vehicles are still in the left lane of the road, waiting for tow trucks.
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The Great Eastern Highway has reopened after a truck crash closed the road earlier today.
The driver escaped injury when his prime mover and trailer burst into flames west of Meckering, 40km east of |
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A man who allegedly set fire to a police officer and attempted to ignite cars parked at the Warwick police station has appeared in court this morning.
Anthony Galea is facing is one count each of gri |
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The threat of flooding in the Pilbara will continue this afternoon as water moves downstream into the De Grey River catchment.
The Bureau of Meteorology has declared a flood warning for the De Grey R |
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Kind-hearted West Australians have dug deep and donated more than 55 tonnes of household items and food to victims of last month"s horrific Victorian bushfires.
Black Saturday produced Australia"s wo |
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Police investigating the suspicious death of a woman found dead in a driveway want to speak to anybody who was in the same neighbourhood late last week.
The body of the 32-year-old woman was found in |
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A study has found WA is a little Britain, with more residents reporting British ancestry than Australian.
Citizenship and Multicultural Interests Minister John Castrilli today released The People of |
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Motorists heading north on the Mitchell Freeway can expect a sluggish journey home this afternoon.
Traffic is building near Lake Monger but is a good run to Warwick Road and then slows to Hepburn Ave |
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The tit-for-tat battle over budget cuts between WA Police and the State Government has continued today, with Police Minister Rob Johnson announcing a treasury official had been appointed to help find |
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An occupational therapist has been charged with sex and indecent assault offences he allegedly committed against a patient at his West Leederville clinic over a two year period.
Following a search wa |
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Traffic heading out of the city on the Mitchell Freeway is slow moving this afternoon.
Motorists should prepare for a sluggish journey to Lake Monger followed by a smooth run to Warwick Road which th |
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Aveley residents are warned that a bushfire raging near Edgecombe Pass and Tullawood Drive could threaten lives and homes.
Career and volunteer firefighters are currently protecting homes near Edgec |
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The colourful past of former Golden Gloves boxing champion Rai Fazio hits the big screen tonight, with Two Fists One Heart premiering at Belmont"s Reading Cinemas.
Shot in Perth last summer, Fazio wr |
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A bush fire in Aveley which threatened homes in Edgecombe Pass is now under control.
Around 50 career and volunteer firefighters, supported by five helitacs, have been busy from 4.55pm battling the b |
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The wife of former WA Premier Geoff Gallop has died.
Doctor Gallop said his wife Bev died peacefully at the family"s Sydney home after a battle with cancer.
Mr Gallop said he was grateful for the lo |
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Forget Underbelly – the concoction of trash, glam, mullets, mini-skirts, bikers and models had its place right here in Perth tonight at the premier of Rai Fazio"s long-awaited boxing drama Two Fists O |
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Plans for a $3.5 billion fertiliser plant in the South-West town of Collie, which would create 1500 jobs during its construction, are set to be announced tomorrow. Premier Colin Barnett said he and |
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Bev Gallop, the wife of former WA premier Geoff Gallop, lost her eightmonth battle with lung cancer yesterday, dying at her Sydney home at the age of 58. In a statement last night, Professor Gall |
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Suburbs and towns in country WA, particularly around the South-West, will lead the resurgence in property growth over the next eight years, a new report predicts. A string of South-West areas featu |
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WA is in the middle of an unprecedented baby boom with birth rates already on track to break last year"s record of 32,129 newborns. Births, Deaths and Marriages figures show 3420 babies were regist |
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Crushing cars and doing spectacular jumps in a 4.7-tonne mass of machinery is all in a day"s work for veteran driver Barry Gaunt. The 65-year-old from Queensland is set to entertain at Perth Motorp |
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A 37-year-old man has been charged with wilful murder over the death a man in Spearwood more than four years ago.
Last night's arrest comes after a nine-month cold case investigation by Major Crime S |
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Notorious WA serial killers David and Catherine Birnie will be the focus of the first episode in a new factual series from the producers of Underbelly, to air on Channel 7 this month. The Wes |
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The strained relationship between the State Government and the Police Commissioner deteriorated further yesterday, with Premier Colin Barnett criticising Karl O"Callaghan"s plan to set up drug amnesty |
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Mitchell Freeway is heavy into the city this morning although traffic is moving slowly, while Kwinana Freeway is busy between Manning Road and South Terrace.
Other busy hotspots across the city this |
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Fire investigation officers will probe the cause of two bushfires that were tackled by more than 90 firefighters overnight.
Scrub off Lodge Drive in Rockingham caught fire about 6pm and 50 firefigh |
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Traffic is heavy into the city this morning, with the Mitchell Freeway southbound busy from Reid Highway through to Scarborough Beach Road.
Northbound on the Kwinana Freeway, traffic is heavy from Fa |
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A 37-year-old Munster man was charged with wilful murder last night, accused of killing a man more than four years ago.
The arrest comes after a nine-month cold case investigation by Major Crime Squa |
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A film documentary of brave indigenous women fighting the scourge of liquor in a West Australian community has premiered at the United Nations in New York.
Yajilarra, meaning "to dream" in the Banu |
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A 37-year-old Munster man was charged with wilful murder last night, accused of killing a Sydney man more than four years ago.
The arrest comes after a nine-month cold case investigation by Major Cri |
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Two Gypsy Joker bikies have been jailed for bashing a man outside a Gosnells nightclub.
Dean Alan Adams and Peter Floyd Robinson, both aged 44, were today sentenced by Judge Roger Macknay in the Pert |
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A motorcyclist was killed in a crash involving a car and a truck in Bedford this morning.
It is understood the crash occurred at the intersection of Beaufort Street and Grand Promenade just before 10 |
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Emergency supplies have been airlifted into an indigenous community that has been cut off by the floodwaters that are swamping the Pilbara.
More than 40 adults and children in the Wallalong community |
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A man has been charged over an alleged attempt to smuggle 12 pythons out of WA.
The reptiles were discovered by police inside cloth bags in a vehicle that was stopped on the Eyre Highway in Eucla yes |
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WA"s first home owner grant will be capped for the first time, treasurer Troy Buswell announced today.
After July people buying a property valued at more than $750,000 will not be eligible for the gr |
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For Eagles veteran David Wirrpanda, Saturday"s bushfire appeal game between West Coast and Fremantle is more than just another AFL practice match. Wirrpanda, who hails from Healesville in country Vict |
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A man has appeared in court today over an alleged murder that occurred five years ago as police continue the search for the victim.
Forensic experts have been searching a house in Munster for the r |
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The RAC Rescue 1 helicopter has been sent to a crash north of Brunswick this afternoon.
It is understood the crash involved two cars on the South West Highway about five kilometres north of Brunswick |
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An electrical contractor has been fined $10,000 after a worker received an electric shock on an Eneabba worksite in 2006.
Jeremy Paul Blakiston Fowler, then trading as Electro Power Services, pleaded |
