North West Telegraph

WELLNESSStay calm and yoga

A Karratha yoga teacher is helping health enthusiasts maintain their wellbeing despite coronavirus causing the closure of fitness venues by providing free online classes.

Caitlyn Watts

Archer (4), Mathilde (1) and Cassandra Doyle doing yoga at The Space Karratha.

Home workoutsKeep fit with these easy home workouts

Kate Nuska

Major milestoneCape legend looks back

A Rio Tinto employee reached a significant milestone this year as he celebrated 45 years working at a major port facility in the Pilbara.

Caitlyn Watts

COVID-19 helpTraditional owners in loop

A group of proactive Pilbara Aboriginal leaders have helped establish an emergency response group to deal with the unfolding coronavirus situation.

Caitlyn Watts

Job keeperAid to keep brewery cash flowing

A local brewery is among the hundreds of thousands of employers that could be kept afloat by a Federal Government lifeline amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Caitlyn Watts

Helping handDigital link to bolster counselling

Mission Australia is taking new measures to ensure it can continue to provide essential counselling to the Pilbara community amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Caitlyn Watts

Meeting postponedGlobal mine conference rescheduled

A major global mining and development conference that was set to be held in Karratha this year has been rescheduled because of COVID-19.

Caitlyn Watts

Mining changesMines adapt to avoid risk

Mining giants operating in the Pilbara continue to make drastic changes to fly-in, fly-out rosters to minimise the risk of spreading the deadly coronavirus.

Alexander Scott

Businesses brew means to survive

The Pilbara’s newest brewery is among the swathe of workplaces transforming their services to keep afloat amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Get creative for your fitness

With gyms shutting their doors because of coronavirus, the Pilbara News spoke to trainers in the North West to find out 10 essential exercises to do at home

Early work starts on FIFO staff village

A contractor has been appointed to build a new 2500 bed fly-in, fly-out camp on the outskirts of Karratha to support the construction of Woodside’s proposed Pluto Train 2 development.

No go‘Vigilantes’ in town blockade

Exmouth locals have taken the law into their own hands and installed a sign at an entry point into the Pilbara town claiming it had been closed.

Alexander Scott

Races offRace round the latest virus blow

The Roebourne races have been cancelled for only the second time in the 153 year history of the Nor West Jockey Club.

Caitlyn Watts

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The West Australian

SEE THE FULL LISTStirling, Joondalup, Wanneroo WA’s virus hotspots

A new “heat map” released by the WA Health Department shows the Cities of Stirling, Joondalup and Wanneroo as the state’s coronavirus hot spots.

Sarah Steger

WATCH NOWCousins Uncut: Watch the footage too raw for TV

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Cousins opens up on time behind bars, getting king hit as a partying teen and breaking a promise to his young son in unreleased clips from the Brownlow medallist’s Coming Clean doco.

Rourke Walsh

Regional News

JAIL LIKELY‘Low, disgusting act’: Man spits in officers’ faces

“There is not a member of the community who would sanction the behaviour of this lowlife.” Police union boss has his say on Geraldton incident.

Adam Poulsen

Promising signsWA set for record seeding as farmers send sheep east

Farmers in the southern regions are set to allocate more of their land to grain production after a big sell off of sheep to the Eastern States over recent months.

Jenne Brammer

‘False claim’Man told cops he ‘had COVID-19 before escape attempt’

A Bridgetown man who allegedly falsely claimed he had the coronavirus while in police custody has fronted court in WA over a string of charges including aggravated assault and criminal damage.

Shannon Verhagen and Tristan Wheeler

Violence fear as alcohol sales rise

Alcohol sales have soared at the same time experts are predicting rates of domestic violence to increase, as families across the Mid West self-isolate against COVID-19.

Former senior of year Errol Warren Bartlett-Torr jailed

Former WA senior of the year — 86-year-old Errol Warren Bartlett-Torr — has been jailed for five years for sickening sex offences.

WA’s second regional COVID-19 clinic opens in Broome

The clinic will be open every day and treat anyone who has either a fever above 38 degrees or an acute respiratory infection, with the Kimberley region recording 12 cases of the virus.

WA News

Price surgeVirtual home tours app sends AssetOwl sky high

Shares in AssetOwl have rocketed after the WA technology company announced it will introduce virtual property tours in response to COVID-19 restrictions.

Kate Purnell

Samurai attackMore jail time for Perth cop slasher Milos Radovic

A former boxer who tried to kill a Perth policeman by slashing his head with a samurai sword will spend more time behind bars after prosecutors appealed his original sentence.

Angie Raphael

COVID-19 test criteria to be expanded amid 11 new cases

WA’s coronavirus testing criteria will be significantly expanded from Thursday, as the State recorded 11 new cases overnight.

Jail for life: Huge penalty for deliberate infection

Anyone who deliberately infects a healthcare worker with COVID-19 could face life behind bars Health Minister Greg Hunt has revealed this morning.

WATCH LIVE: Health Minister gives WA virus update

Health Minister Roger Cook is scheduled to give an update on the coronavirus crisis at 11am. WATCH THE LIVE STREAM HERE

Troy BuswellBuswell’s bail altered over ‘drunken call’ from ex

Former treasurer Troy Buswell has had bail conditions altered after a court was told he received an “unsolicited” drunken call from his estranged wife, who he is accused of repeatedly assaulting.

Shannon Hampton