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Massive $695 million university campus to transform CBD

The heart of Perth will be transformed into a university precinct, following a historic $695m Commonwealth-State city deal which will see Edith Cowan University build a new campus in the CBD.

Jos Spagnolo

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Hospitals in crisis as ambulances ramped for 162 hours

Ambulances were forced to queue outside Perth hospitals for hours last Monday — the single worst day for ramping ever recorded outside of last year’s horror flu season.

Peter Law

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Missing toddler Jimmy O’Reilly found safe

The little boy was discovered ‘fit, well and hungry’ by his grandfather just before 7pm, and was rushed to his parents who were waiting at their Airbnb in Yallingup.

Sarah Steger Jackson Lavell-Lee and Jackson Barrett

Pray for JimmyVideoCommentsWA rallies on social media in bid to find missing boy

The angelic, baby-toothed smiling face of Perth toddler Jimmy O’Reilly stopped the State today, as people flooded social media with whatever information they had in a desperate bid to find him.

Claire Ottaviano

‘Appalling’ conditionsVideoPolice pledge to keep searching until they find Jimmy

Police have pledged to continue searching for a young toddler lost in Yallingup bushland until he is found, despite facing ‘appalling’ conditions.

Sarah Steger

Permanent nightmareSerious infection claims at Perth tattoo studio

A Victoria Park tattoo studio has defended its hygiene practices after claims by management that multiple tattoos created by a former artist had become infected.

Stephanie McKenna

Bookshop brouhahaVideoCommentsMan confronts Perth shop owner over JK Rowling ban

Police were today called to a Maylands book store that made international headlines this week for banning JK Rowling’s books after a man confronted the owner over the move.

Claire Ottaviano

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Plush lounge part of $2.5m council house refurbishment

Perth ratepayers could be asked to stump up $2.5 million to create a plush new space for councillors, despite fears it will be a public relations nightmare.

Steve Butler

Inside accessVideoThe Raft: First look at Perth’s floating pub

We’ve all read about The Raft, but how does it actually stack up when you’re onboard? Last night we found out.

Bonnie Raynor

Kalgoorlie MinerCommentsPremiumGolden future of news as Kalgoorlie team celebrate past

WA’s last remaining daily regional newspaper this week celebrates its 125th birthday. Damon Erceg takes a look at the Kalgoorlie Miner’s past and its very bright future.

Damon Erceg

Still missingPolice, volunteers continue search for toddler James

Authorities are searching for the three-year-old in the area around Karli Rise in Yallingup, with the boy understood to have wandered off from a short-stay rental with his family’s two dogs.

Jackson Lavell Lee, Jackson Barrett and staff writers

Ugly scenesMan charged after alleged Northbridge glassing

A man has been taken to hospital with a serious facial injury after he was allegedly struck on the face at a venue on Aberdeen Street about 1am.

Dramatic scenesCop collapses during tense Girrawheen arrest

Two officers have been punched and gouged — with one taken to hospital after collapsing — during a bizarre and tense arrest in Girrawheen Friday afternoon, police allege.

Watchdog alertPremiumBGC may struggle to cement brick deal

The national competition regulator looms as a major hurdle to the Buckeridge family’s market-dominating purchase of Midland Brick.

Sean Smith

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Man invokes murdered QLD family in alleged wife threat

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: ‘You and your daughter deserve to be burned alive like the Queensland family’, was one of the threats a man made against his wife before brutally raping her, prosecutors say.

Jake Dietsch

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One homeless person dying on Perth streets each week

Multiple homeless people have died on the streets in the last three months with at least 15 losing their lives since July — and the average age of those who passed away is just 47.

Annabel Hennessy

A-salt chargePremiumMan charged with ‘chicken salt’ assault on mum

A chicken salt container will be at the centre of a legal argument as a Kalgoorlie-Boulder man denies he assaulted his mother with the popular condiment.

Taylar Amonini

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$1 million for major WA project to fight deadly disease

A Perth researcher has secured a $1 million grant from Neale Daniher’s FightMND campaign to develop a pioneering new genetic technology to treat deadly motor neurone disease.

Angela Pownall

Portfolio reshufflePremiumNicoletti sells Gingin for more Wheatbelt farms

WA grain king John Nicoletti is already churning his newly acquired farm property portfolio by listing his 1000ha Gingin farm for sale and eyeing others in the central and eastern Wheatbelt.

Jenne Brammer

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Di Bain’s $100k campaign for mayor

Perth lord mayoral candidate Di Bain has revealed an extraordinary war chest of almost $100,000 in donations from some of WA’s most prominent names in business and property development.

Rourke Walsh

Emerging industryPremiumWA medicinal cannabis hub raises $1.5m

Perth-based medicinal cannabis company Cannaponics has raised $1.5 million in its first round of seed capital as it works to develop a $15m cannabis and hemp hub in Collie.

Kate Purnell

Opening upPremiumMental health help for workers

A new app is helping WA bosses break down mental health barriers with employees, with many at increased risk of burnout because of the pandemic.

Meilin Chew

Quarantine breachPremiumSecond ankle bracelet fitted to WA COVID breacher

A Secret Harbour man who allegedly breached hotel quarantine by inviting women to his room and going to a party has become the second person in WA to be fitted with a COVID monitoring device.

Sarah Steger

‘Idiot abroad’PremiumFrench backpacker jailed after drug order to WA hostel

An ‘idiot abroad’ whose dream holiday around Australia with his girlfriend turned into a nightmare after he was caught importing party drugs in the mail to his Kununurra hostel has been jailed.

Shannon Hampton

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