Wheatbelt
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- Small business
The Perth suburbs where small businesses are struggling (and where they thrive in WA)
Small businesses in regional WA suburbs are thriving, whilst those closer to Perth are struggling to operate longer than a year. Here’s why.
- Holly Thompson
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- Crash
- Crime
Man charged over Wheatbelt crash that left two women dead
Emergency services were called to the scene north of Cooljarloo.
- Claire Ottaviano
Wheatbelt renewable energy projects fail to clear planning hurdles
A wind farm backed by Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue and a hydrogen start-up chaired by ex-Woodside boss Peter Coleman have both failed to get planning approvals.
- Peter Milne
Perth stays the course as home values surge month-on-month
Perth home values rose more than $11,000 in January, continuing the capital’s trend of prices rising by more than 1 per cent a month, according to a new report released on Thursday.
- Sarah Brookes
State had two-year heads-up on Kalgoorlie’s weak turbines: opposition
The state could have acted in advance to avoid much of the suffering thousands of people are now suffering for days on end, says the opposition energy spokesman.
- Hamish Hastie
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- Weather
‘Look out for each other’: Third night without power for thousands across WA
Premier Roger Cook said on Friday that the storms were unprecedented in both ferocity and focus, and had crumpled 50-metre transmission towers “like tinfoil.”
- Holly Thompson
Hidden in plain sight: The drug scourge blighting WA’s small country towns
Cheap house prices and a sense of community lures many families to the Wheatbelt, but a rise in drug-related crime, break-ins and an escalating meth problem has some wishing they hadn’t.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
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- Missing person
Missing WA woman found during bush rave search
A young West Australian DJ who disappeared from a bush rave on Saturday night has been found by police after spending a cold night lost in the forest.
- Heather McNeill
Children spend days alone with car after Christmas crash tragedy kills their parents
Cindy Braddock and Jake Day left Northam at 1am Christmas Day heading to Bruce Rock with their three young children but were reported missing after failing to arrive.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
Three public schools named as WA’s best
The schools singled out for praise are far apart geographically – but are brought together by focusing beyond the standard “reading, writing and arithmetic”.
- Holly Thompson
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