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Western Australia records highest road toll since 2016, with 174 deaths

WA's preliminary road toll for 2022 stands at 174 deaths, including 112 in regional areas and 62 in the metropolitan area.

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Flood evacuees return, others await peak

Residents in an outback town will spend New Year's Eve worried about flooding as Top End communities return home a week after a rare inundation.

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Brit expat infuriates Aussies by whinging about free accommodation being 'dirty'

Faye Johnson and her partner Luke moved to a remote town in Western Australia as part of the requirements of her working holiday visa to stay in the country for another year

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Family of WA parents killed in Christmas Day crash in Kondinin thanks truckie, community

The family of the couple killed on Christmas Day in Western Australia thanks a truck driver who helped and comforted the relative who discovered the horrific scene.

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Eleven drownings since Christmas, and beaches aren't the biggest danger

The period between Christmas and January 2 is considered drowning season.

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Funds flow for kids orphaned in crash

More than $58,000 has been raised for three children who miraculously survived a car accident that killed their parents in rural Western Australia.

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Kids reunited with missing jet ski parents

Two children left alone for hours at a boat ramp on the WA coast have been reunited with their parents whose jet ski broke down during a night-time ride.

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Eldest child helped save baby boy in Kondinin crash that killed Cindy Braddock and Jake Day

A family member of the young couple tragically killed in a Christmas Day car crash in WA's Wheatbelt region credits the eldest child with saving the life of the couple's baby boy.

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Police charge man, 19, with murdering aged care resident in Albany

A 19-year-old man is charged with murdering a 70-year-old woman at an aged care facility in Albany, on Western Australia's south coast.

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Filming whale sharks feeding on bait ball at Ningaloo Reef 'most exciting experience', photographer says

Tom Cannon knew he was witnessing a rare natural phenomenon when he captured footage of whale sharks feeding on bait balls on Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef.

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Esperance rangers hope cultural burns could buffer remote islands from climate change impacts

A bird colony has gone missing from an island off the south coast of Western Australia. Rangers say cultural burning could prevent such losses in the future.

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Northam man accused of lighting fires in Western Australia facing five more charges

A 23-year-old man accused of lighting a string of fires that have burned through hectares of bushland in Western Australia's Wheatbelt has been handed five more charges.

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Tropical Cyclone Ellie crosses Northern Territory coastline as category one system

Tropical Cyclone Ellie was declared by the Bureau of Meteorology on Thursday evening, and has since crossed the Northern Territory coastline.

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Western Australia's most frequented stock route from De Grey to Mullewa heritage listed

A major stock route, along which more livestock are thought to be overlanded than all other routes in Western Australia combined, is added to the state's heritage register.

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WA nurses, police set for pay increases

Western Australia's government will pay immediate salary increases and bonuses to nurses and police officers as wage negotiations drag into the new year.

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McGowan reignites GST feud with NSW

Western Australia's premier has poured scorn on the NSW government's fiscal management in a press conference alongside Labor hopeful Chris Minns.

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Hail forces Busselton beachgoers to seek shelter during thunderstorm

Melbourne may be the city of "four seasons in one day", but Busselton in Western Australia had a crack at the title on Monday when beachgoers were forced to shelter from hail.

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Kwinana big battery project suffers fresh delays, $19 million blowout amid WA power supply fears

Western Australia's first big battery will now cost an extra $19 million and not be available until after summer, adding further pressure to the state's electricity grid.

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Gina Rinehart, Kerry Stokes and Chris Ellison in race to stake claim over Perth Basin despite gas price gap

Australia's richest people are in a battle for control of Western Australia's burgeoning onshore gas industry, despite the Commonwealth's decision to cap prices. Energy reporter Dan Mercer explains why.

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Christmas spiders on the hunt for mates as summer heats up in Western Australia's south-west

Described as "jewels of the bush", Christmas spiders emerge in prolific numbers across southern Western Australia during the warmer months.

The New Daily

Tim Winton’s Blueback takes on new life as a feature film starring a blue groper and Eric Bana

Tim Winton's 1997 novella Blueback has been adapted to the big screen, filmed entirely on location in Bremer Bay, Western Australia

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CPSU/CSA accepts WA government's latest pay and conditions offer for public sector workers

After months of negotiations, a union representing 40,000 public sector workers in Western Australia accepts the government's wages and conditions offer.

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Male pilot killed in WA plane crash

Police are investigating after a male pilot was killed in a plane crash near the border between Western Australia and South Australia.

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Man dies after plane crash in Caiguna, 350km west of WA-SA border

A man aged in his 40s dies after the plane he was piloting crashes in the Caiguna area.

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Ord Valley mangoes left unpicked as farmers count cost of flooded market

Farmers in Western Australia's far north leave tonnes of mangoes unpicked, with a flooded market making continuing this year's harvest an unviable option.

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