Saturday 28th January, 2012

• Officer mowed down by police car

  perthnow

  PerthNow understands that the passenger of a car stopped by police during a patrol jumped in to the unmanned, unmarked police vehicle and took control of the wheel.The offender reversed and knocked ...

• Uni waives fees for unaccredited course

  West Australian

  A WA university has waived thousands of dollars in student fees because its physiotherapy course was refused accreditation, leaving its first graduates unable to work.Edith Cowan University ...

• Evacuation alert as fire set to jump highway

  West Australian

  A massive bushfire near Carnarvon is threatening to jump the North West Coastal Highway this morning as residents between the Gascoyne town and the Overlander Roadhouse prepare to evacuate.The North ...

• Morality tames Kal skimpies

  West Australian

  The swing doors out the front of Kalgoorlie's Wild West Saloon suggest a frontier reputation which is more legend than fact.The famous skimpies have long been forced to cover up and no one can ...

• Beach battle is back

  West Australian

  The country's best surf lifesaving athletes will lock horns in the most gruelling ocean-based competition on the planet tomorrow.Round four of the Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Ironman and ...

• Freo's next big thing arrives

  West Australian

  The members of San Cisco are barely out of high school, but the Fremantle pop group is already acclaimed as a class act.The young quartet's next big thing status was confirmed this week when ...

• Cruising grows despite Costa tragedy

  West Australian

  Record numbers of West Australians are jumping aboard luxury liners in what is shaping up to be the busiest cruise ship season in Fremantle's maritime history.February marks the peak of cruise ...

• No more for parole board chief

  West Australian

  Parole board chief Narelle Johnson, whose tough stance has overseen a dramatic reduction in the number of offenders being supervised in the community, will leave the post and return to the Supreme ...

• Mermaids beat the heat

  West Australian

  Kirralea Birch has found a novel way to beat the heat while entertaining the crowds at Fringe World by performing as a mermaid in an aquarium outside the Old Treasury Building.She is one of six ...

• Rinehart fight due to go public

  West Australian

  Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, yesterday formalised the removal of her estranged daughter Bianca from the family company, completing the latest extraordinary shift of power within ...

• NASA Eyes Cyclone Iggy's Threat to Western Australia

  Science Daily

  -; NASA satellites are providing valuable data to forecasters as Tropical Cyclone Iggy nears Western Australia. NASA's Aqua satellite provided visible and infrared data on Iggy, observing ...

• Arson fears for fuel database

  West Australian

  The creation of a public fuel load database revealing WA's most bushfire-prone areas, a key recommendation of the Keelty report, is in doubt because authorities fear it will become a roadmap ...

• The girlfriend who could finally endure no more

  West Australian

  There is an old proverb which says: "As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."Tammy Kingdon's folly was to return to Troy Mercanti on more than a dozen occasions ...

• Video blitz on drivers

  West Australian

  The number of cars scanned for speeding in WA would increase from 14 million to almost 300 million a year under a police plan to have roof-mounted speed cameras on 48 traffic patrol vehicles.Supt ...

• Gun victims won't talk to cops

  West Australian

  A recent spate of shootings across Perth may reflect a deeper problem with organised crime in WA, Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan says.There have been at least seven high-profile shootings ...

• Libs call McGowan 'sneaky'

  West Australian

  The Liberal Party has accused new Labor leader Mark McGowan of being "sneaky and selective" after he announced that one MP in his new-look shadow ministry was tasked with ...

• Low-fee schools top first uni choice list

  West Australian

  Schools that charge little or no tuition fees were more successful than Perth's most expensive schools at getting a higher proportion of their students into their first choice of university ...

• 'A fireball you'd only see in a movie'

  perthnow

  Taken by an onlooker about an hour after the Rockingham MP climbed into a burning car to save an unconscious man, it reveals how close the vehicle came to being completely engulfed in ...

• Pilbara set to feel raw power of Iggy

  News.com.au

  The Fire and Emergency Services Authority has warned residents in the Midwest Gascoyne and Pilbara regions in coastal areas from Port Hedland to Coral Bay to prepare their homes and family.This ...

• Lotto luck for Gosnells family

  West Australian

  A Gosnells family had more than Australia Day to celebrate after picking up a $1 million Division One prize in Wednesday night's Lotto draw.The winning ticket, the only Division One winner in ...

• Cyclone Iggy heading towards Australia's Pilbara?

  Mine Web

  Cyclone Iggy is seen strengthening as it moves towards Australia's northwest coast on Friday, threatening the region's rich mining fields after shutting down some offshore oil production ...

• Western Australian Oilfields Shut as Cyclone Grows

  CNBC

  Tropical Cyclone Iggy has strengthened to a category two storm and was moving towards Australia's northwest coast on Friday, threatening the region's rich mining fields after shutting down ...

• Academic told 'go back to your country'

  perthnow

  A PERTH professor whose study found people who fly Australian flags on their cars are more racist than those who don't, says she has received over 70 critical emails which include demands that ...

• Bouncer 'overreacted' in dealing with drunk

  perthnow

  Certainly the picking up of a man during a fight is wrong on your own, of course when a group of security operatives pick up an offender it is standard operating procedure. Drunks need to be ...

• Three rescued from stricken boat

  inMyCommunity

  A police spokesman said Water Police responded to an EPIRB activation at 8.30am and requested any nearby vessels in the area to assist.A cray-fishing vessel found the trio in the 5.5m open boat, ...

• Tame crowd, spectacular Skyshow

  inMyCommunity

  Police were also happy with the behaviour of the crowd at the Skyworks celebrations.Twelve assault charges were laid, which included three assaulting a public officer charges. Police issued 169 ...

• Health warning as temperatures heat up

  inMyCommunity

  Temperatures are expected to hover around 40c for the next several days and Dr Carmel Goodman, the WA Institute of Sport's medical director and Sports Medicine Australia spokeswoman, said ...

• NWCH Closed again due to fires

  Pilbara Echo

  TRAFFIC NOTICE ROAD CLOSURE NORTH WEST COASTAL HIGHWAY Friday 27th January 2012 Issued at 12:45pm Main Roads WA advises road users that the North West Coastal Highway is closed to all traffic ...

• Three rescued from sinking boat

  perthnow

  Water police received information from the Rescue Coordination Centre in Canberra that an EPIRB distress beacon was activated just over 20 nautical miles west of Cape Peron, near Rockingham, at ...

• McGowan introduces new-look Labor

  perthnow

  LABOR MP Ben Wyatt has been promoted to shadow treasurer, while seasoned MP Margaret Quirk has lost the police portfolio in new leader Mark McGowan's shadow cabinet reshuffle announced ...

• Sharks seen at Dunsborough, Busselton

  perthnow

  A spokesman for Surf Life Saving WA said a tiger shark was seen about 80m off the Busselton Jetty at about 8.55am.The second sighting was of an unidentified 2.5m shark about 200m off the Dunsborough ...

• Man seriously injured in Marmion Ave crash

  News.com.au

  The crash occurred at intersection of Marmion Ave and Hodges Drv, which straddles Heathridge, Ocean Reef and Connolly.The 43-year-old driver of a Holden commodore received a serious head injury.Two ...

• Three rescued as boat takes on water

  West Australian

  Three people were rescued off the coast of Rockingham this morning after their boat broke down.The 5.5m open boat was taking on water when rescue crews arrived.Water police were alerted to the ...

• Abuse for man on child sex charges

  West Australian

  A former parent volunteer accused of sexually assaulting children at a southern suburbs primary school will face trial in June.The 34-year-old appeared in the District Court today on 23 child sex ...

• Bouncer jailed for patron attack

  West Australian

  Benjamin Whakaruru Ransfield, 44, was working as a bouncer at Flawless nightclub in Subiaco on the morning of March 12 last year when he became involved in a fight with a 27-year old man who had ...

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