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  • Mum's tears for angel crushed by falling TV

    The grieving mother of a five-year-old boy killed in a tragic accident in Collie yesterday has spoken of her desperate love for her "angel".

    October 24, 2012, 5:21 am

  • Farewell to police eye in the sky

    It has been used to catch speeding motorists, drug dealers and a mass murderer but after almost 15,000 flying hours the WA Police Cessna 182 is about to be retired.

    October 24, 2012, 5:32 am

  • Surfers fight City Beach ban

    Australia's oldest board-riding club is fighting a move to ban surfers from City Beach for six months of the year.

    October 24, 2012, 5:20 am

  • Toxic risk at Burswood stadium site

    Construction of a major stadium on the Burswood Peninsula could lead to the contamination of the Swan River and groundwater from toxins and acid sulphate soils, an environmental report has warned.

    October 24, 2012, 3:40 am

  • Murdered businessman's house sells

    Murdered businessman Craig Puddy's mansion has sold for $2.4 million.

    October 24, 2012, 3:30 am

  • Father jailed for abusing daughter

    A Perth father who burnt his daughter with cigarettes to "enforce her silence" about his horrific sexual abuse was yesterday sentenced to seven years jail.

    October 24, 2012, 3:30 am

  • Tarvydas' future a $1m fight

    The fate of Ruth Tarvydas' fashion empire hangs on the WA designer's ability to clear more than $1 million owed to her bank and King Street landlord.

    October 24, 2012, 3:20 am

  • Premier admits share ban has merit

    The days of State Government ministers directly buying and selling company shares could be numbered after Premier Colin Barnett told Parliament a ban on share trading had merit.

    October 24, 2012, 3:10 am

  • Libs fear 'referendum' on Abbott

    Liberal MPs say Tony Abbott is in danger of making the next election a referendum about him unless he stops taking Labor's bait and indulging in personal politics.

    October 24, 2012, 3:00 am

  • 'Hard landing' grounds plane

    A Fokker 100 jet owned by Qantas subsidiary Network Aviation has been grounded in the East Pilbara after making a "hard landing" that appeared to have caused significant damage.

    October 24, 2012, 2:50 am

  • Mongolian police to quiz trapped lawyer

    An Australian lawyer trapped in Mongolia was due to face her second interrogation by anti-corruption police last night as Australian consular officials tried to find out why she cannot leave the country.

    October 24, 2012, 2:40 am

  • Lawyers put MPs 'on notice'

    A State Parliament committee investigating the management of Peel Health Campus has described as "extraordinary" a threatening letter from the law firm acting for the hospital's private operator.

    October 24, 2012, 2:30 am

  • Kings Park link for hospital

    The State Government is considering a proposal for a pedestrian bridge that would link Perth's new children's hospital in Nedlands directly with Kings Park.

    October 24, 2012, 2:20 am

  • Zentai seeks damages

    Accused war criminal Charles Zentai has launched a damages case against the Federal and State governments, with a Supreme Court writ claiming the 91-year-old was wrongfully and unlawfully imprisoned during the Commonwealth's failed bid to approve his extradition to Hungary.

    October 24, 2012, 2:10 am

  • Auditor General slammed over silence

    The head of a parliamentary committee has slammed the Auditor General for refusing to answer questions at a public hearing into unsafe wooden poles in Western Power’s network.

    October 23, 2012, 7:01 pm

  • Woollard 'acted carelessly' in operation

    Prominent Perth cardiologist Keith Woollard acted carelessly when an inflated balloon burst inside a patient’s coronary artery during an operation on a 70-year-old patient six years ago, the State Administrative Tribunal has ruled.

    October 23, 2012, 6:06 pm

  • 'WA apathetic about road deaths'

    Children should be increasingly targeted with road safety messages as early as primary school to mould them into safe drivers by the time they get behind the wheel, WA’s new Road Safety Council chairman says.

    October 23, 2012, 5:13 pm

  • Man acquitted over 'murder bid'

    A 23-year-old man has been acquitted over an alleged murder bid in which he was accused of shooting a man who refused to shake his hand.

    October 23, 2012, 4:55 pm

  • Boy, 5, crushed by TV

    A five-year-old boy has died after a television set fell on him in Collie, in the state’s South West.

    October 23, 2012, 4:52 pm

  • Shacks culturally significant: report

    Shack owners on Wedge and Grey Islands have received a significant boost in their long-running fight to save their homes, with a new report declaring them to be historically and culturally significant to Western Australia.

    October 23, 2012, 4:21 pm
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