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POLICE CHASEVideoWrong way driver nabbed after police pursuit

WATCH: A Duncraig man is facing a string of charges after allegedly speeding away from police in a stolen car late last night.

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Time for changePremium
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Senseless deaths in custody still haunt nation

The hopes of turning around the horrible statistics of the 1980s and 1990s — tied to the implementation of the royal commission — are fading. But it must end.

Rangi Hirini

Drug chargesPerth journalist freed from Burma jail after 3 years

Newspaper co-founder Ross Dunkley has been released from a Burma jail after serving three years of a 13-year drug sentence, as part of a large-scale pardon by the country’s military junta.

Brianna Dugan

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Bikie killerPremium
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Rebel killer who shot dead Martin recruit is freed

A drug dealer who fatally shot a Rebels nominee recruited by the gang’s slain chief Nick Martin over a $700 drug debt has been released on parole after a decade in prison.

Shannon Hampton

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‘On a mission’Premium
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Murder victim’s mum ‘won’t stop until they get justice’

The mother of murder victim Kym Taylor says she will not stop fighting for justice after two people accused of being involved in her daughter’s killing were acquitted.

Phil Hickey

Another blowPremiumSenior Rock Machine bikie facing weapons charges

The Rock Machine bikie gang has suffered yet another hammer-blow after senior figure Daniel James Bailey appeared in court this week over a string of serious weapon and drugs charges.

Phil Hickey & Shannon Hampton

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Fraud chargesPremium
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Race car driver guilty of stealing company cash

A championship race car driver accused of siphoning $330,000 from a company he started with Heath Ledger’s dad has been found guilty of several offences.

Emily Moulton

Fallen starPremiumEx-Eagle Kerr admits breaching family VRO

Former AFL champion Daniel Kerr has pleaded guilty to breaching a family violence restraining order taken out by his ex-partner Michelle McAtackney.

Angie Raphael

‘I do not consent’PremiumSpeeding teen slammed for ‘sovereign citizen’ defence

A teenager caught speeding on Bussell Highway has been lambasted by a magistrate for ‘wasting the court’s time’ after claiming she did not consent to the charges because she was a ‘sovereign citizen’.

Taylar Amonini

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Making a splashPremium
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Drug trafficker jumped in pool ‘to destroy evidence’

A convicted drug trafficker allegedly tried to destroy evidence by jumping into his swimming pool while handcuffed after police raided his Perth home.

Phil Hickey

Road ragePremiumDriver out on bail after ‘hit-and-run brain snap’

A Geraldton man accused of deliberately running down a cyclist in a road-rage fury which a magistrate has put down to a violent ‘brain snap’ has been released on bail.

Sarah Steger

‘Deeply ashamed’PremiumPerth dentist cops 10k fine for working unregistered

A Perth cosmetic dentist has been fined thousands of dollars after admitting she performed dental procedures while she was unregistered.

Shannon Hampton

$493m claimPremiumMonadelphous, Rio Tinto settle port fire dispute

The contractor and Pilbara miner have reached an out-of-court settlement to cover the cost of damage caused by a fire that ripped through a port processing facilities two years ago.

Daniel Newell

Death threatsPremiumScorned Thai lover found guilty of sinister acts

A woman who stalked, extorted and threatened her lover, his ex-wife and edited their daughter’s face onto pornographic pictures then sent them to her school has been found guilty of the crimes.

Emily Moulton

‘Live-distance’ child abusePremiumAlleged WA creep ‘paid to watch kids be abused’: Cops

A Mid West man accused of paying to see children being abused live on camera from his Geraldton home is behind bars, charged with almost 70 child abuse offences.

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Highway horrorPremium
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WA coroner’s message to Leach Highway pursuit cops

A coroner has told the inquest into the death of a motorcyclist — killed in a collision with a car trying to out-run police — how she is most likely to find.

Emily Moulton

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Pub basherPremium
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Teen beat love rival, tore out her hair but avoids jail

A waitress has escaped with a fine for a drunken attack on another woman in a pub during which she dragged her victim by the hair until it ripped out.

Taylar Amonini

‘Not fraud’PremiumHope Downs’ return to Hancock right move, court told

Hancock Prospecting’s lawyers said Lang Hancock had breached his fiduciary duty by moving the Hope Downs tenements away from the family flagship company.

Neale Prior

Bizarre actPremiumMan admits leaving ‘bodily fluids’ during car break-ins

A 34-year-old man has faced Perth Magistrate’s Court, where he admitted being responsible for a spate of bizarre vehicle break-ins in Como.

Shannon Hampton

UpdatedPremiumMega Ponzi fraudster Bernie Madoff dies in prison

Disgraced financier Bernie Madoff, who destroyed his family and the lives of others linked to his failed ponzi scheme, has died in jail.

Merryn Johns

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Perth pursuit cops ‘could have avoided highway horror’

Police officers chasing a meth-affected driver who smashed head-on into a motorcyclist failed to tell their superiors details that could have stopped the collision, an inquest has been told.

Emily Moulton

Supreme battlegroundPremiumCourt urged to push back kids’ claims against Rinehart

Hancock Prospecting claims it could take years to prepare the Wright Prospecting and DFD Rhodes actions for trial if the court simultaneously deals with John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart’s claims.

Neale Prior

no body no parolePremiumTop cop tells ‘evil’ killer to reveal where Hayley is

Police Commissioner Chris Dawson says Francis John Wark is an ‘evil man’ and was given the ‘sentence he deserves’ for killing teenager Hayley Dodd.

Shannon Hampton

Assault ChargesCommentsPremiumGuilty plea for assault

A Bridgetown woman has pleaded guilty to three charges of aggravated common assault against a 15-year-old boy, his mother and her partner, in their own home.

Josh Sunderland

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