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Medical helpPerth to get $55 million dollar 80-bed medihotel

The medihotel will deliver up to 80 beds and is expected to divert up to 4500 patients each year from public hospitals.

Joe Spagnolo

ApprehendedPremiumBrick throwing accused escapee caught

A former AFL player who escaped from custody after being charged over a brick attack that left a teenager in a coma has been caught.

Emily Moulton

Not concernedCommentsPremium‘I am not a cane toad’: Palmer

Queensland billionaire Clive Palmer says he doesn’t care how he is depicted in the media – but has declared: “I am not a cane toad”.

Joe Spagnolo

See the photosVideoPremiumFire destroys Spotlight store

The Arson Squad has been called in to investigate a fire that gutted the Spotlight store on Leach Highway in Booragoon overnight.

Kate Phillips

Clive’s top fiveCommentsPremiumPalmer v Australia: Defining Clive by his court battles

Like his dealings in business, Clive Palmer’s legal record is a mixed one. The resources tycoon may well have launched more than 100 lawsuits over the past 40 years. Here are five of them.

Sean Smith

Treble in sightCommentsPremiumTaylor gears Pride for tilt at Kal treble

Emerging stayer Burning Pride will be in line for a rich Kalgoorlie treble when she tackles today’s Crown Perth Handicap at Belmont Park.

Ernie Manning

Meelup FarmhousePremiumThe chic South West farmhouse that’s hot to trot

As the owners of Perth’s The Little Bay and The Little H, Elizabeth and Mike Ahearn are no strangers to make an Instagram-worthy venue — but Meelup Farmhouse might be their most ‘liked’ venue of all.

Krystal Sanders

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The West Australian exclusive
Millions in unpaid finesPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Bikie, death-linked business WA’s worst fine defaulters

A notorious Comanchero bikie and a demolition business owned by a man accused of lying to cover up an alleged murder are among WA’s top 100 worst fine defaulters.

Rourke Walsh

First-hand accountCommentsPremiumVP Day: How WA celebrated the end of war

The day after his 18th birthday, Perth's Jack Le Cras witnessed the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender and the end of WWII. Read his emotional retelling of the day as it happened.

Malcolm Quekett

Breaking newsPremiumEx-Richmond star on the run from Perth cops

A police manhunt has been launched for former AFL player Martin McGrath who escaped custody at Perth Magistrate’s Court after being charged over a brick-throwing attack that left a teen in a coma.

Rourke Walsh

The West Australian exclusive
The West Australian exclusive
unauthorised uni getawayPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Rottnest party twist in UWA rape scandal

An end-of-semester event on Rottnest Island where a student allegedly raped a woman was billed by a university social club as a week of heavy drinking and partying.

Bethany Hiatt

Reform neededCommentsPremiumCall to weed out corruption in Aboriginal corporations

A judicial inquiry is needed to investigate claims of gross mismanagement of native title royalties by powerbrokers of some Aboriginal corporations, according to Indigenous leaders.

‘obviously he will litigate’CommentsPremiumMcGowan ‘confident’ Palmer law won’t be overturned

The WA Government is ‘comfortably confident’ its new law to snuff out Clive Palmer’s attempt to sue WA for $27 billion will withstand the billionaire’s next move — a High Court challenge.

Peter Law & Josh Zimmerman

‘robbed of our only child’VideoPremiumParents mourn ‘beautiful boy’ killed in Cardup crash

A 26-year-old man killed in a crash at a notorious intersection south-east of Perth had survived three bouts of cancer and was a ‘kind-hearted, generous and funny man,’ his heartbroken family say.

Rourke Walsh

‘She is greatly missed’CommentsPremiumFamily pain after sister ‘robbed’ by boyfriend

The family of a young Perth woman whose boyfriend allegedly stole money from her bank account and tried to access her super days after her death say they are devastated by the ordeal.

Emily Moulton

investigation
investigation
Unsolved murder mysteryCommentsPremium
investigation
‘Someone knows what happened to my sister’

A key suspect in the disappearance of local woman Sarah McMahon almost two decades ago has died, prompting her sister to issue a fresh plea in a bid to help solve the baffling cold case.

Phil Hickey

‘Serious failings’CommentsPremiumDamning report finds Ruby Princess saga ‘inexcusable’

An inquiry into the handling of the COVID-19 ravaged cruise highlights a raft of ‘serious failings’ and labels a decision to let it disembark in Sydney as ‘as inexplicable as it (was) unjustifiable’.

Sarah Ison

RIP FonzieCommentsPremiumKiller dog caught and euthanised

A dog that killed a beloved family pet at a northern suburbs park was put up for sale on Gumtree just hours later but has since been seized by rangers and put down.

Rourke Walsh

ExclusivePremiumMagistrate slams man who admitted attacking DiDi driver

Andrew Moore was labelled 'ridiculous' and a 'drunken idiot' by a magistrate who lashed out at him for attacking a DiDi driver in broad daylight.

Adam Poulsen

Clive Palmer stoushPremiumScoMo backs WA’s emergency Palmer laws

The PM has backed WA in its high-stakes legal battle with Clive Palmer, and has ‘wished the McGowan Government well’ in its bid to legislate against the mining magnate.

Sarah Ison

Yeah babyCommentsPremiumMcGowan’s brutal Austin Powers take-down of Palmer

The feud between the WA Premier and Clive Palmer is ramping up after the the billionaire compared McGowan to Saddam Hussein, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

Josh Zimmerman

There’s No Stopping UsRTRFM Radiothon 2020 party kicks off

The festivities are well under way for RTRFM 92.1’s annual subscription drive — one of the independent radio station’s most important ones to date.

Miriam Fisher

Family violenceCommentsPremiumChild-minding facilities needed in WA courts: report

A WA parliamentary committee has called for child-minding facilities in courts and for police to be given new powers to apply for family violence restraining orders without the permission of victims.

Peter de Kruijff

‘See ya’VideoPalmer cuts off fiery radio interview over front pages

Clive Palmer has hung up on an ABC Radio National interview after the Queensland billionaire was quizzed on his depiction as a cane toad and cockroach on the front pages of The West Australian.

Caitlyn Rintoul

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