Monday, May 20th, 2013

WA News

Day of joy for Jayden

Day of joy for Jayden

Family and friends gather mark a milestone they feared they might not reach.

  • Mum's home is an Eagles nest

    When Sherryl Gardiner opened her Perth home to become a footy mum with a difference, her heart also opened more than she could have imagined.

    1 hour, 36 minutes ago

  • Plan to boost organ donations

    Organs would be taken from donors in regional and outer metropolitan hospitals in WA for the first time under a plan to boost the State's donations rates.

    1 hour, 35 minutes ago

  • Big return for Broome beach polo

    Polo came back to Cable Beach with a bang at the weekend to stamp itself as one of the Kimberley's most popular events.

    1 hour, 48 minutes ago

  • Little gain from Gonski numbers

    WA schools would get just $33,000 each a year in extra Commonwealth funding under Julia Gillard's so-called Gonski reforms - a seventh of what an average Queensland school would get.

    1 hour, 49 minutes ago

  • Trenorden leaves early in protest

    Parliamentary elder and former Nationals leader Max Trenorden is refusing to set foot in the Legislative Council for his valedictory speech after a crisis of faith in the political process.

    1 hour, 51 minutes ago

  • Day of joy for Jayden

    For Leisl and Danny Stone, celebrating their son Jayden's third birthday was much more significant than for most parents.

    1 hour, 51 minutes ago

  • Burglar with expensive taste jailed

    A thief with a penchant for expensive jewellery and high performance cars and who has been behind bars for most of his adult life has been jailed for five years as a judge said the only response to his offending was to remove him from the community.

    1 hour, 57 minutes ago

  • Spike in new parent mental health issues

    Mental health disorders have risen dramatically among new parents and it could have an impact on their children's health, a WA study reveals.

    1 hour, 58 minutes ago

  • Hit-and-run scientist sentence cut

    A scientist jailed for 10½ years after he set a car's cruise control at 110km/h and deliberately ran down the chief physicist at a remote North West solar observatory has had his sentence reduced by two years on appeal.

    May 20, 2013, 4:44 am

  • Star Trek Scotty beaming for WA

    Leading British comedy actor Simon Pegg is heading to WA to star in the locally made thriller Kill Me Three Times.

    May 20, 2013, 4:43 am

  • Thousands go walkies for RSPCA

    For most Perth dogs it was, as pet owner Phillip Richardson noted, the biggest social event on the calendar.

    May 20, 2013, 4:42 am

  • Mums unite to honour poisoned sons

    Two mothers who each lost a son to methanol poisoning in Indonesia have met for the first time, united in their desire to stop other families going through the same heartache.

    May 20, 2013, 4:42 am

  • Albanese backs airport rail plan

    Federal Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese has played down the significance of an "internal working document" from Infrastructure Australia that casts doubt on the viability of the Barnett Government's airport rail and light rail plans.

    May 20, 2013, 4:34 am

  • Three die in car crashes

    Three people died in two separate car crashes yesterday.

    May 20, 2013, 4:31 am

  • Pictures emerge of bungled ATM raid

    Thieves made a loud and bungled attempt to steal a cash machine by dragging it along a Perth street early yesterday.

    May 20, 2013, 4:27 am

  • Surfer's moment of terror in Tahiti

    They were a few moments of white-knuckle terror the likes of which most people would never take on willingly - but Dan Ryan had braced himself.

    May 20, 2013, 2:50 am

  • The party is over

    WA Treasury has cut more than $2 billion from State revenue forecasts since February's pre-election financial update.

    May 20, 2013, 2:40 am

  • Business must shoulder some blame: Barnett

    Colin Barnett says companies that hired too many workers too quickly should shoulder some blame for the high cost of doing business in WA, which has contributed to the mining slowdown.

    May 20, 2013, 2:36 am

  • Slowdown to slug WA Budget

    WA faces a "bumpy" landing from the mining slowdown that could mean more unemployment, slower growth and the State Government forced to either cut spending or raise taxes, economists warn.

    May 20, 2013, 2:35 am

  • Sexting not clear cut: judge

    Children's Court president Denis Reynolds wants to be able to decide if teenagers who share or post online sexually explicit images of people aged under 16 should go on to the child-sex offenders' register.

    May 20, 2013, 2:30 am

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