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  1. LOCAL JOBSNew garnet mine a jobs boost for Kalbarri

  2. RAISE A GLASSPub’s push for new life

  3. Back homeDaly happy to be back in Carnarvon footy

  4. Free campingIrwin to reopen free RV camp site

  5. Garden of lifeJack’s garden blooms with flowers & vegies

CLEAN UPPort dredging to keep ‘balance’

The Mid West Ports Authority will have the Port of Geraldton “dredged” between September and October to keep operations at the port safe and protect the coastal marine environment.

Elise Van Aken

THANK GODConvent offers urgent beds

Medium-term emergency accommodation has become available at the old Sacred Heart Convent for Northampton residents displaced by cyclone Seroja.

Elise Van Aken

anxious waitPremiumTourism providers hold their breath over Perth lockdown

Perth holidaymakers are cancelling their bookings across the Mid West as they grapple with a snap lockdown on the edge of the July school holidays.

Liam Beatty

“POLARIZING FIGURE”WA Nats hardly rejoicing

Local Nationals MPs appear in no rush to put out the welcome mat for resurrected Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, sharing their condemnation of last week’s Federal leadership spill.

Elise Van Aken & Phoebe Pin

Vocal oppositionPremiumEPA nod for oil hunt in Mid West nature reserve

Controversial plans by a Singapore-based company to drill for oil in a nature reserve south of Dongara have been recommended for conditional approval.

Stuart McKinnon

Goodwill donationsWomen’s aid to women with winter goods to refuge

From one group of women to another — a Geraldton community group dropped off a boot-load of essential winter goods to a local women’s refuge.

Lisa Favazzo

BUCCING FEARSBuccs hope for Slammers visit

Geraldton Buccaneers coach Dayle Joseph said the sides were meeting in unfamiliar circumstances, with both much lower down the table than usual, but he expected a strong clash.

GNFLWWomen’s games to go ahead

Great Northern Women’s Football League matches will go ahead today and Sunday, with country week football cancelled.

GREAT NORTHERN FOOTYFull-of-steam Railways face under-radar Hawks

The Great Northern Football League match of the round is the GBSC Park clash between Brigades and Railways.

Dramatic crashCommentsPajero and caravan flip on Brand Highway

A Pajero and caravan have flipped on the Brand Highway near Jurien Bay, with the driver being taken to hospital and holidaymakers being forced to wait while emergency services cleared the scene.

Daryna Zadvirna

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Out of the Woods
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Electric vehicles a highly charged conversation

The thought of plugging in and powering up is not on my motoring horizon, but I like to remain open-minded about these things.

Grant Woodhams

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30-year mysteryPremiumClaremont killer ‘not linked to Perth teen’s murder’

Detectives have launched a fresh public appeal for information into the 1991 murder of Kerry Turner, amid confirmation a major ‘forensic review’ was carried out into the case several years ago.

Phil Hickey

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WA Police rocked by suicide tragedies

WA Police has been plunged into mourning after two serving officers — including a sergeant who ran his own station — took their own lives in the past fortnight.

Phil Hickey and Brianna Dugan

FULL LISTPremiumAll 842 members of Perth’s The Weld Club revealed

The club is famously private, but today The West Australian can for the first time reveal the names of all its 842 members.

Rhianna Mitchell

Regional News

Brutal violencePremiumPrison sentence over savage attack on Kal taxi driver

A man who punched a Kalgoorlie-Boulder taxi driver before stealing his vehicle and narrowly avoiding a collision with a police car has been jailed for 18 months, but could be out within weeks.

Tegan Guthrie

Dramatic crashCommentsPajero and caravan flip on Brand Highway

A Pajero and caravan have flipped on the Brand Highway near Jurien Bay, with the driver being taken to hospital and holidaymakers being forced to wait while emergency services cleared the scene.

Daryna Zadvirna

Electrical faultCommentsPremiumBus blaze victim: ‘I can’t even cry anymore, I’m numb’

A family of seven whose bus was engulfed by flames at a popular Pilbara camp site have thanked those who tried to help fight the blaze, while revealing their devastation over the loss of their home.

Sam Jones

Fatal crashTeenager killed in fiery crash in Great Southern

It is the 16th fatal crash in the Great Southern region this year.

anxious waitPremiumPremiumTourism providers hold their breath over Perth lockdown

Perth holidaymakers are cancelling their bookings across the Mid West as they grapple with a snap lockdown on the edge of the July school holidays.

Esperance fireCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumEsperance man who lit up lunch bar has bail renewed

A 22-year-old man who admitted to setting fire to an Esperance lunch bar just days after Christmas has had his bail extended.

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Out of controlPremium‘It’s about to explode’: Perth party turns violent

A new dad has described the terrifying moment he barricaded himself inside his neighbour’s AirBnB after a post-lockdown school party — which required the police chopper to shut it down — turned wild.

Sarah Steger

As it happensVideoLIVE: Cook delivers latest on WA’s COVID battle

Health Minister Roger Cook will speak on the State’s ongoing fight managing the coronavirus pandemic.

Sickening attackMan in his 80s bashed over moped in Perth’s south

Detectives are on the hunt for three teenagers after an elderly man was brutally bashed in Greenfields yesterday.

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Voluntary assisted dyingCommentsPremium
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CommentsPremiumDeath is never ideal — but it is now more predictable

My ideal last day involves catching a 20kg pink snapper and watching my two live-in carers — the granddaughters of Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer — prepare it for dinner. But that seems unlikely.

Road toll tragediesPremiumPremiumEight lose lives during horror week on WA roads

Eight people, including two teenagers, have been killed in the past five days on WA’s roads, with the State recording 87 traffic deaths in 2021 — almost one death every other day for six months.

Consumer choiceCommentsPremiumREIWA calls for WA stamp duty overhaul

There’s a new push for a radical revamp of the State’s stamp duty system, which annually nets the Government millions but is a substantial impost to buying a home. Here’s how REIWA says it could work.

Joe Spagnolo