One year ago, Anusika Maruthooran, now 33, found herself at the intersection of opportunity as the WA Government launched the Early Childhood Education and Care Job Ready Program.
Sam Jones
The Town of Port Hedland will further investigate a home massage business alleged to be a brothel after councillors vented frustration over what they said was evidence withheld in the decision-making process.
The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting fewer cyclones in the season ahead, but has warned research predicts a strengthening in the intensity of the weather systems.
Liam Murphy
Violent crime in Broome seems out of place in a holiday haven supposed to be the diamond in WA’s tourism crown. So are the reports a true reflection of the Kimberley town? Caleb Runciman flew north to find out.
Caleb Runciman
WA Police have completed their investigation into a potential “burial site” on a remote island off the Kimberley coast after seafarers reportedly discovered rock arrangements and a cross 350km west of Broome.
An extraordinary election will be held next year to fill a vacancy on the Shire of Broome council after a popular councillor was disqualified before the October local government ordinary elections.
Katya Minns
Port Hedland Marine Rescue commander Zac Slaughter has welcomed the Town of Port Hedland’s move to endorse a new parcel of land close to the Spoilbank Marina for the group’s operations base.
The Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Foundation Ieramugadu Store Maya, a traditional owner organisation, has won the sustainable communities category at the Tidy Towns Sustainability State Awards.
The dust-covered industrial west end of Port Hedland could soon be home to a rooftop bar as part of a development application submitted by a Singaporean developer for a six-storey, 300-room hotel.
A 28-year old has avoided jail after being sentenced in the Harvey Magistrates Court over stealing charges valued at about $48,000.
A 28-year-old man accused of assaulting a police officer who intervened during a domestic dispute with his former partner has been handed a six-month community-based order.
A horrific road rage incident in Broome has left a grandmother and her two young grandchildren “traumatised” as the trio’s car was rammed multiple times and the grandmother was doused with vinegar cider.
Cain Andrews and Katya Minns
A Mirrabooka high school teacher will remain behind bars for at least a month after he was arrested on school grounds and accused of trying to “procure a person believed to be under 13 for sexual activity”.
Lauren Price
West Coast’s new recruits - including No.1 pick Harley Reid - faced added pressure at training on Friday, with incoming chief executive Don Pyke and their families watching on from the sidelines.
Samantha Rogers
A Scarborough father has been left with more questions than answers after his four-year-old son’s leg was broken in an incident with a garbage truck.
Erick Lopez
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Raquel de Brito
Blood, bandages and screams as turbulence tosses our plane around over the Indian Ocean. Then came the second wave ...
Police have confirmed a 22-year-old woman who went missing from a Connolly home has been located.
A former Liberal staffer claims she resigned in the weeks before Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape — over an argument with Bruce Lehrmann about him taking his accuser’s phone and pressuring her to drink.
A Kambalda man who persistently assaulted and was violent towards his ex-partner during their decade-long relationship — and still blames her, even after being convicted — has been jailed for two years.
Tegan Guthrie
A Kalgoorlie-Boulder man spat at his ex-partner after throwing a packet of yogurt at her, which exploded on impact, while looking after their grandchildren.
Amber Lilley
Mining giant Northern Star Resources have welcomed a newly themed truck to their fleet, with the latest addition celebrating 50 years of environmental stewardship from Kalgoorlie-Boulder Urban Landcare Group.
Keen photographers rushed to grab their cameras on Friday night as the Aurora Australis lit up the Albany skies and dazzled the community.
A Kalgoorlie-Boulder man who entered a Perth home and woke a sleeping teenage boy by tapping his back was trying to escape being chased after being drunkenly kicked out of out a nearby party.
An Albany man has been released from prison on an intensive supervision order after he flung his partner around by her hair and swung a star picket at her.
The AI startup, which Musk announced in July, seeks to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’, according to its website.
Daniel Newell
Supply-chain dysfunction, rising interest rates and protectionism are making life tough.
The Economist
Nearly 2500 fossil fuel lobbyists are estimated to have been granted access to the COP28 climate conference, according to an analysis from advocacy groups, reflecting a sharp increase from last year.
Sam Meredith
A fight over the future of fossil fuels has been thrust into the global spotlight at the COP28 climate summit.
One of the worst repeat criminals in WA history who had 200 convictions at 14 — and escaped from custody before raping a woman on his 21st birthday, could be free in weeks.
Syan Vallance
The family of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed in the back at his northern suburbs high school have expressed their shock, saying ‘nobody expects to go to school and then something like this happens’.
Phil Hickey
A merger between oil and gas players Woodside Energy with Santos could create a mega-player with a market cap of up to $80b.
Conditions are about to get a whole lot tougher for Perth’s embattled tenants, with experts predicting rental costs will rise by as much as 9.5 per cent next year.
The Government’s surprise end-of-year deal to pass a chunk of the changes – crucially, including a crackdown on labour hire – has infuriated businesses who were sure they had crossbenchers in their corner.
Katina Curtis
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