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  1. Huge net castPolice call for Cleo vision within massive search zone

  2. Booming tourist seasonPremiumRare total eclipse to bring 10,000 visitors to Exmouth

  3. Last of its kindPremiumUnique WA flavour to RFDS’ new wings

  4. Water worksPremiumFree plumbing services for North West residents

  5. Asbestos shamePremiumPetition calls for action on Wittenoom clean-up

Community contributionPremiumYurra takes home Community Achievement Award

The commitment of a Pilbara-based contracting company to provide employment and training opportunities for the people of Roebourne and the wider community has been recognised.

Cheyanne Enciso

Volunteer awardCommentsPremiumSAFE Karratha takes home RSPCA Gold award

The hard work and dedication of a local non-profit to save animals in the North West has been recognised at the recent RSPCA awards.

Alexander Scott

Get vaxxedPremiumPilbara pharmacy’s 1000th jab a sign of turning tide

Since July pharmacies have been able to deliver the AstraZeneca jab, and more recently the Moderna vaccination has also been made available to outlets.

Tom Zaunmayr and Cheyanne Enciso

Karijini ExperienceCommentsPremiumKarijini Experience handed over to Traditional Owners

A festival in the heart of the Pilbara showcasing Banjima and Aboriginal culture has been handed over to traditional owners.

Alexander Scott

New beatPremiumSymphony Orchestra offers opportunities for local musos

Karratha musicians will be given the opportunity to work directly with WA’s largest performing arts organisation as part of a new arts and development program.

Cheyanne Enciso

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Carbon capture
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Industry innovation leads emissions change

What if that was just the beginning in terms of reduction potential of this applied technology? You’d been keen to understand more, writes Rob Carruthers

Rob Carruthers

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New energy
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The Pilbara can lead nation’s hydrogen future

Hydrogen is big news these days as it is seen as a key part of the solution for storage and transport of renewable energy, writes Peter Long

Booming tourist seasonPremiumPremiumRare total eclipse to bring 10,000 visitors to Exmouth

With international and State borders closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, tourists have been exploring regional WA in large numbers.

Water worksPremiumPremiumFree plumbing services for North West residents

Pilbara residents can now access free plumbing services as part of the Water Corporation’s 2021-22 Waterwise Towns program.

Story tellingPremiumActivist Sisonke Msimang to visit Roebourne

South African author and activist Sisonke Msimang will share her story with Roebourne residents when she visits the Pilbara next month.

Alexander Scott

Extra supportPremiumDDWA advocates for children with disabilities

Advocates from a not-for-profit organisation have spoken about ways children with disabilities could be better supported in a recent visit to Karratha.

Cheyanne Enciso

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emotional scenesPremium‘Love affair’ claims in Janet Dweh murder case

Dozens of Janet Dweh’s family and friends have attended court as a married man accused of murdering her appeared, amid claims by her family he was having a ‘love affair’ with her.

Shannon Hampton

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Rio’s unprecedented WA shutdown over sex assaults

The mining giant has pressed pause on sites across the State to address workers on the scourge, as well as racism and bullying.

Caitlyn Rintoul

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Police reveal the 730 outlaw bikie members across WA

The huge number of outlaw motorcycle gangs and feeder clubs in WA — as well as some of their most serious crimes — have been revealed in police report being used to justify tough new anti-bikie laws.

Peter Law

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‘Find my little girl’VideoCleo’s mum makes heartbreaking plea for help

Missing girl Cleo Smith’s mum Ellie has made a heartbreaking plea for help to ‘find my little girl’, a week on from her shock disappearance from their tent near Carnarvon.

Miriam Fisher

Rise and fallCommentsPremiumEttamogah Pub resilient as Cunderdin itself

Time and time again, over many decades, the Wheatbelt town’s one main watering hole has had to rise from the sometimes literal ashes to maintain its place as a social hub.

Steve Butler

STATE POLITICSCommentsPremiumKalgoorlie MP recalls terrorism’s toll

State Labor Member for Kalgoorlie Ali Kent has described vivid childhood memories of the Northern Ireland conflict while throwing her support behind a proposed new law clamping down terrorism.

Jason Mennell

BAIL DENIEDCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumCourt ‘bent over backwards’ for boy after bail breaches

A Kalgoorlie magistrate told a 17-year-old boy the court had “bent over backwards” and given him numerous chances to abide by his bail conditions before she refused his bail this week.

Dramatic scenesPremiumPremiumWorkmate saves man’s life by driving at accused stabber

A 52-year-old man was allegedly stabbed several times before his workmate saved his life by driving a vehicle into his attacker in Katanning yesterday.

Sex creepCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumNaked truth of Kalgoorlie creep: Guilty on sex assault

A creep who broke into a home and performed oral sex on the unsuspecting male occupant sleeping nude on the couch before a naked fight broke out between the pair has been found guilty

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One week onVideoThe eerie conditions on night Cleo vanished

Howling winds, rocky terrain and a soundtrack of thundering swell — this is what would have confronted Cleo Smith at the time she vanished from her family’s tent.

Ailish Delaney and Jackson Barrett

Painful memoriesCommentsPremiumCleo disappearance reignites 41-year Collie mystery

The desperate search for four-year-old Cleo Smith is ‘stirring up memories’ of another of WA’s unsolved disappearances, that of Collie schoolgirl Lisa Mott.

Joe Spagnolo

Fresh theoriesVideoCould a stalker have been at Cleo’s house?

Police are exploring whether whoever took Cleo Smith from her tent had visited her family home beforehand, amid fears the abduction could have been pre-meditated.

JC trialPremiumPremiumProtesters march over Geraldton officer’s acquittal

Frustrated protesters have stamped handprints on the walls of the Geraldton Police Station after a local police officer was acquitted over the fatal shooting of an Aboriginal mother.

Tunnel visionVideoWoman risks life during Graham Farmer tunnel walk

Shocking vision has emerged of a women walking across lanes of the tunnel in what appears to be an early morning drunken stunt. Watch the dramatic incident here.

‘Every resource’PremiumPapalia reveals extraordinary lengths to find Cleo

Police Minister Paul Papalia has vowed police will receive any resource needed to help bring Cleo Smith home.

Joe Spagnolo