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  • Tests point to dredging stirring up poisons

    Toxin tests on live mussels placed in the Swan River to test the amount of contaminants released by Fremantle Ports' dredging process have again shown detectable levels of poisons.

    October 13, 2010, 6:33 am

  • Two airlifted after Wheatbelt smash

    Two people seriously injured in a horror crash in the Wheatbelt this morning are being rushed to Perth by rescue helicopter.

    October 13, 2010, 10:16 am

  • Five trapped in level crossing crash

    Emergency services are at the scene of a car rollover at a Cannington level crossing.

    October 13, 2010, 10:03 am

  • Police back at Dome cafe robbery

    A mobile police van will be set up in South Perth tomorrow as part of an investigation into a hold-up in South Perth last month.

    October 13, 2010, 9:06 am

  • Boat 106 stopped near Christmas Island

    Border authorities have stopped another boat ferrying asylum seekers to Australia, the 106th boat to be intercepted this year.

    October 13, 2010, 8:14 am

  • Police vow to crush bikie gang

    Machetes and balaclavas were seized from the Coffin Cheaters' Bayswater headquarters yesterday as police vowed an unprecedented assault on WA's most powerful and richest bikie gang.

    October 13, 2010, 6:44 am

  • CBD strata office sales surge

    The chance to buy a CBD office and avoid the uncertainty of future rent hikes is an appealing investment for a growing number of Perth businesses.

    October 13, 2010, 5:50 am

  • Heat strikes Ord mangoes

    Hundreds of tonnes of Kununurra mangoes will hit Perth supermarkets this week after a deal was struck between failed investment company Rewards Group and a neighbouring packing shed to process the fruit.

    October 13, 2010, 5:45 am

  • Eagle tale another feather in cap

    Walking to the letterbox as a five-year-old on his family's Mundaring property was when Simon Cherriman first started staring skyward, daydreaming about the trees and what was in them.

    October 13, 2010, 5:42 am

  • Pies prove a hot favourite

    Some say the secret lies in the flour. Others believe the award-winning pies and pastries of the Denmark Bakery are from a secret recipe coupled with hours of hard work.

    October 13, 2010, 5:41 am

  • Bali bombing pain resurfaces

    They shared each other's pain and grief and they joined together to help each other cope.

    October 13, 2010, 5:38 am

  • Taser silence was wrong: police

    Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has admitted the Government should have been told of the brewing Taser scandal which engulfed the State last week but the issue "slipped through the cracks".

    October 13, 2010, 5:37 am

  • Nurse honoured for farmer rescue

    Ron Dawson is not a man who will ever take nurses for granted.

    October 13, 2010, 5:34 am

  • Anger over $75,000 pay rise for Verve boss

    A $75,000 pay rise handed to Verve energy boss Shirley In't Veld last financial year and a nearly 43 per cent increase in salaries of the power utility's top executives over the past two years are unacceptable as the State's lowest paid workers battle for "stingy" wage rises, the Opposition says.

    October 13, 2010, 5:13 am

  • Firies in hot demand

    The firies in the Perth Firefighters Calendar were at it again yesterday, taking off their shirts and smiling for cameras for a good cause.

    October 13, 2010, 5:09 am

  • Doctors blast home birth website 'bias'

    Leading WA doctors have attacked the Health Department's promotion of home births on its website, saying it has biased information and fails to acknowledge the risks to women and their babies.

    October 13, 2010, 2:45 am

  • Searches too invasive: female airline staff

    Female staff at Perth Airport's international terminal are being intimidated and searched invasively by a security worker who used to be a man but had a sex change operation, it has been claimed.

    October 13, 2010, 2:35 am

  • River clean-up group wants help to buy land

    Farmers and scientists are appealing to investors to help buy land along the South-West's longest river, the Blackwood, to help them battle salinity, poor water quality and declining fish and marron stocks.

    October 13, 2010, 2:30 am

  • Students swap books for iPads

    The days of students carting heavy and expensive textbooks could be numbered, with schools preparing to adopt the latest technology gadget, the Apple iPad.

    October 13, 2010, 2:25 am

  • Pubs fight to prevent lockouts

    The WA Australian Hotels Association has accused the State Government of hatching a secret plan to introduce blanket lockouts at entertainment venues in time for Christmas.

    October 13, 2010, 2:15 am

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