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Go-ahead for plant to convert waste into electricity
Port Hedland 6721 The State Government has given final environmental approval for a facility in the Pilbara that would convert domestic waste into electricity.New Energy's facility near Port Hedland would be the first of its size in Australia.The plant is expected to process up to 255,000 tonnes of waste a year and potentially power 21,000 homes.It will also include a recycling ...
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Man charged over fatal motorbike crash
A 63-year-old Stirling man has been charged with dangerous driving occasioning death following a Major Crash investigation.About 5.30am on May 10, a 74-year-old man was riding his Honda motorcycle south on Fitzgerald Street when it collided with a Daewoo sedan being driven north along the same road.Police will allege it was the 63-year-old man who was driving the Daewoo when the crash occurred ...
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Stirling man charged over crash
POLICE have charged a 63-year-old Stirling man with dangerous driving occasioning death after his car and a motorcycle collided in Northbridge on May ...
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McKenna denies molesting female boarders
Katanning 6317 A former supervisor at a country hostel in Western Australia has denied that he sexually molested two female boarders more than 30 years ago.Wayne McKenna is on trial accused of indecently dealing with two girls when they were boarders at the St Andrews Hostel in Katanning in 1980 and 1981.In a video police interview played to the District Court today, McKenna denied the ...
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Waste-to-energy plant gets green light
HOUSEHOLD rubbish will be converted into electricity after the final environmental approvals were made for the State's first large scale waste-to-energy ...
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Premier flags WA public sector job cuts
WESTERN Australia's post-election austerity mode will include a review of the public sector, with Premier Colin Barnett refusing to rule out job ...
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Three dead in horror five hours on WA roads
THREE people have been killed in a horror five-hour stretch on WA roads, including two men in country crashes and a woman pedestrian in the ...
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Barnett won’t rule out job cuts
WA's post-election austerity mode will include a review of the public sector, with Premier Colin Barnett refusing to rule out job cuts.Since the March 9 victory by the Liberal party, the re-elected Government has flagged significant budget pressures, and banned Government advertising to save money amid suggestions of a $2 billion write-down of pre-polling revenue estimates.Today, Mr Barnett ...
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Plane flying low before crash with chopper
The surviving pilot of a mid-air crash in the remote Gascoyne that killed the two occupants of a small plane told a coronial inquest today that he could think of no other explanation for the plane being so low other than his fellow pilot was dealing with an emergency.William Maher was the experienced helicopter pilot involved in a State Government feral goat culling operation in February 2008, ...
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Frenchman on trial for Broome murder
Broome 6725 Lawyers are making their final submissions to the jury in a three-week murder trial in Broome.23-year-old Frenchman Thomas Camus is on trial in the Supreme Court in Broome accused of fatally stabbing 32-year-old Pilbara man Kristopher Dixon on Christmas morning in 2011.Both men had been drinking with friends at the town's only nightclub.The jury has been shown graphic mobile ...
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Rescue helicopter sent to fatal country crash
Quindanning 6391 The rescue helicopter has been sent to the scene of a fatal car crash in Western Australia's South West.A man died after his vehicle hit a tree on the Harvey-Quindanning Road, about five kilometres from Quindanning near Harvey.Police say the accident occurred about 12:30 pm. (WST)Fire crews from Williams and Boddington worked to free the man from the car but he died at ...
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Streets evacuated after gas main ruptures
Busselton 6280 Authorities are at the scene of a ruptured gas main in Busselton.Police have closed off Bussell Highway between Queen Elizabeth Avenue and Carter Street. The Department of Fire and Emergency Services is at the scene and says it is considering evacuating a local ...
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Rio Tinto cuts iron ore senior managers
RIO Tinto's cost cutting measures have continued with its iron ore business getting a major restructure with president Greg Lilleyman taking on a new ...
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SW gas leak forces evacuation
Authorities have taken less than two hours to make safe an area impacted by a gas main rupture in the South West.Some homes in West Busselton were evacuated with residents moved 100m away from the area.People in the area had been warned to remain inside with doors and windows closed as a precautionary measure while firefighters worked with contractors to make the area safe. The Department of ...
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Ravenswood dog owner fined
THE owner of a Pitbull cross that jumped a fence and attacked a Silky Terrier was fined $1250 when she appeared in Mandurah Magistrates Court on May ...
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Elder praises police handling after riot
That was the message from Aboriginal elder George Walley to participants in a riot at Pinjarra shopping centre on May 17.The riot, involving up to 20 people, resulted in the hospitalisation of a 77-year-old bystander.Senior Sergeant Ian Francis said rioters threw "anything they could get their hands on including cups and signs."Eleven adults and two juveniles have been ...
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Housing crisis chokes refugees hope of new life
Perth 6000 It's a measure of her desperation that Mary Deng would prefer a tent in a refugee camp in strife-torn Sudan to homelessness in Perth.Three years after arriving in Australia, Ms Deng, her four children and her brother still have no house to rent.While she's escaped the dangers and privations of a refugee camp in Sudan, she's enduring a different kind of suffering.Since ...
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RAC chopper sent to Harvey crash
THE RAC Rescue helicopter has been sent to the scene of car accident near Harvey where a motorist is injured after their car crashed into a ...
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Man dies after car plunges into water in WAs south
The pedestrian was killed early today when she was struck by a car near the corner of Tonkin and Great Eastern Highway, Ascot, just east of the city just before 10am. A man was found dead after his vehicle veered off a road and into a metre of water near Denmark on the south coast about 9am. Emergency services were called to Young's Siding, about 35km west of Albany on WA's south ...
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Subcontractor ruptures water main
The main burst on Flinders Street near Morley Drive, about 11.30am.The burst water main is yet another drama for Main Roads and the Water Corporation after repeated burst mains in Wellington Street in recent weeks. It was later revealed the burst pipes were up to 100 years old.The water main was struck by a subcontractor who was operating machinery but was not doing work on behalf of the Water ...
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Water main bursts in Nollamara
Update, 1.15pm: A water main was burst by a subcontractor on a Nollamara street this morning, causing water to spray metres into the air.The main was damaged on Flinders Street, near Morley Drive, about 11.30am.It is understood the subcontractor was not working for the Water Corporation.The water supply has now been switched off and repairs are underway.Last month, a water main caused severe ...
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Ban alcohol ads in sports broadcasts Council
Perth 6000 The Youth Affairs Council is calling for a ban on alcohol advertising during sports broadcasts in Western Australia.In its submission to a government commissioned review of WA's Liquor Control Act, the council says it is concerned young children are being exposed to too much alcohol advertising. The review committee is expected to provide a report to the Racing and Gaming ...
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Three charged over alleged hit and run
Beckenham 6107 Three teenagers have been charged after an alleged hit and run incident involving a Perth policeman last week.The Senior Constable was operating a speed camera on Albany Highway in Beckenham last Thursday morning when he was knocked to the ground by a scooter carrying three people.The scooter rider and his two passengers then ran away.The police officer was treated for cuts and ...
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One word win worth millions to Palmer
Resources billionaire Clive Palmer has won a multimillion dollar court battle over a single word in a contract which defined the timing of royalty payments due from an $8 billion iron ore mine. In a West Australian Supreme Court ruling, Justice James Edelman found in favour of Mr Palmer's Mineralogy. It was battling with contractors Sino Iron and Korean Steel over when royalties from iron ...
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Water main erupts on Flinders Street
The main burst on Flinders Street near Morley Drive, about 11.30am.The burst water main is yet another drama for Main Roads and the Water Corporation after repeated burst mains in Wellington Street in recent ...
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Major redevelopment plans for Perth eyesoars
The City of Perth has major projects in the works to redevelop the city’s CBD in-line with the aims of broader projects like Green City and Populate Perth, but some residents remain wary of red tape, while others fear for the future of historical sites such as Langley.
Perth is the commercial, transport and cultural backbone of Western Australia. This city of almost 2 million people is the fourth largest in Australia, but has grown consistently faster than many other cities, outstripping the national average and was ranked by The Economist in 2010 as the eighth ‘most livable city’ in the world, which means we have some of the best living conditions on the planet. Read more
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