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  1. Slashing costsPremiumCity of Karratha awards tender for solar power project

  2. sports awardsCommentsPremiumKarratha, Newman win big at sports awards

  3. CricketPremiumDampier skittle Kats in 10 wicket victory

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    Cleaners sacked for giving FIFO workers sex toys

  5. Learn to drivePremiumState Govt’s move to boost remote drivers licence help

Beach worksCommentsPremium$320,000 Town Beach widening project begins

Works on a $320,000 project to widen Exmouth’s Town Beach with 25,000 cubic metres of sand has started.

Alexander Scott

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Hedland cancer patients forced into 5hr trips for chemo

Prior to the establishment of the tele-chemo centre in Karratha in 2019, WA Country Health’s Patient Assisted Travel Scheme flew cancer patients in to Perth for treatment

Mia Burgess

No accessPremiumPerth protesters banned from the Burrup, Karratha CBD

Elizabeth Burrow and Petrina Harley appeared before court charged with failing to obey a move-on notice, unreasonably obstructing a carriageway and obstructing a public officer.

Alexander Scott

‘One job’CommentsPremiumFIFO ‘flogs’ slammed over drunken scenes at airports

A top regional cop has sensationally called out the abusive and antisocial behaviour of resources workers hitting the beers before they fly home from regional airports.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Pipe dreamPremiumPilbara Airlines fails to launch as investor pulls out

Pilbara Airlines was announced by local businessman and Town of Port Hedland Mayor Peter Carter in March 2019, and was slated to begin flights to South-East Asia in December 2019

Sam Jones

Local flavourPremiumInside the foodie boom reshaping Exmouth

For decades Exmouth has been a global hit for its whale shark swims and ocean paradise, but back on dry land there was not much to keep you occupied. As Grace Hendry found, that is no longer the case

Grace Hendry

FishingPremiumPremiumJunior anglers sweep State, national titles

Several King Bay Game Fishing Club anglers came away with big achievements after taking a clean sweep of State awards and national titles at the Game Fishing Association of Australia junior tournament

Scarborough protestPremiumPremiumProtesters raise rock art concerns

The community rally was organised by Save our Songlines and heard from traditional owners Colin and Patrick Churnside, Ms Alec and Raelene Cooper.

BasketballPremiumPremiumFlames Division 1 Black continue unbeaten run

Flames Division 1 Black continued their winning streak after an enormous 50-point win against eight-placed Bandits last week.

CricketPremiumKats, Taverners win in West Pilbara Cricket Association

Round eight of the West Pilbara Cricket Association 40 over competition saw Baynton Lions host Dampier Taverners 1 at the Karratha Leisureplex on a beautiful but hot Saturday afternoon.

Nick Lewis

Slashing costsPremiumCity of Karratha awards tender for solar power project

A City officer’s report stated the preferred option included a significant solar array of some 4,000sqm of roof-mounted panels, electrical infrastructure and battery storage.

Alexander Scott

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WATCH THE VIDEO VideoPremiumRebels’ show of force in face of McGowan’s new bikie laws

Rebels bikies have put on a massive show of force in Perth’s northern suburbs just days after the McGowan Government announced sweeping new laws to drive motorcycle gangs out of WA. 

Michael Traill

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Cleaners sacked for giving FIFO workers sex toys

FIFO cleaners who posted videos online of themselves distributing homemade sex toys for male workers to dongas have lost their jobs.

Caitlyn Rintoul

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How a suicidal teenager spent eight days stuck in an ED

A suicidal teenager spent eight days in a hospital emergency department waiting for a mental health bed - an ordeal his distraught parents have described as 'slow torture’.

Charlotte Elton

Regional News

Restricted accessPremiumNesting season Cable Beach car ban mulled by council

The final decision on whether to implement the closures will be handed down once YPC presents a final report to the council in June 2022

Sam Jones

Vicious assaultPremiumMan bites off partner’s lip in barbaric attack

A Halls Creek man bit a chunk of his partner’s lip off in an attack so savage that it left her teeth exposed.

Grace Hendry

Christmas appealCommentsPremiumKununurra duo diagnosed with cancer encourage donations

A Kununurra husband and wife who were diagnosed with cancer within two months of each other have become the face of Cancer Council WA’s new Christmas appeal.

Stephanie Sinclair

ACCUSED ASSAULTCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumMum accused of assaulting her daughter fined for breach

A 21-year-old mother accused of assaulting her five-year-old daughter has been fined for breaching protective bail and returning to the community from which she was banned.

Nothing doingPremiumPremiumNo changes to Broome prison after second jailbreak

An inspection of the prison from the outside suggests there have been no changes to security at the area in question since Mr Walkerbear’s escape

BAILCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumThrottle accused gets bail

An alleged repeat abuser who “vehemently denies” assaulting and throttling his partner three weeks after being released from jail for assaulting her has been released on bail.

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Mother accused of telling son to drown toddler brother

A WA woman who believed her three-year-old son was the “devil child” allegedly told her elder son to drown his brother before she held the boy under water.

Amber Lilley

PeacemakerPremiumFatally stabbed man was ‘trying to break up fight’

A friend of the young man who was fatally stabbed in Northbridge over the weekend claims his mate was just trying to break up a fight when his accused killer plunged a knife into his chest.

Daryna Zadvirna and Emily Moulton

Taking medicineCommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumMost resources bosses jabbed ahead of deadline

Almost all the senior executives of WA’s biggest resources companies say they are fully vaccinated ahead of a State Government deadline for FIFO workers to have had their first jab before Wednesday.

Police ‘altercation’PremiumPremiumFIFO cop shop invader dodges jail for rampage

A drug-addled FIFO worker who rammed his car into a security gate at a WA police station before breaking through a thick glass door and picking a fight with a police officer has dodged jail.

‘Undiagnosed epidemic’CommentsPremiumCommentsPremiumWA cops push for inquest into police suicides

Frontline cops across Western Australia are calling for the State Coroner to conduct an inquest into police suicides.

Prestigious award VideoCommentsPremiumWA bakery takes out nation’s top pie honour

It’s official, WA knows how to pie. A humble South West bakery has taken out the nation’s top pie honour.

Peta Rasdien