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A 24-year-old man died in a crash in Landsdale on Thursday, December 19.

Holiday horror on WA roads with five fatal crashes days out from Christmas

Five fatal crashes within the space of just a few days have marked a grim start to Western Australia’s Christmas holiday break.

  • Cameron Myles

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Andre and principal David Ramsay.

This year 4 student ran his school for a day. Here’s what he taught the principal

A West Australian student has lived out a reality many students only dream of – running his school for a day by stepping into the shoes of the principal. 

  • Holly Thompson
State Librarian and State Library WA chief executive Catherine Clark.

WA’s most senior librarian gears up to fight censorship

In the wake of a campaign by a conservative advocacy group to restrict access to two sexual education books to over-16s, the State Library said it would continue to support and defend intellectual freedoms.

  • Hamish Hastie
Councillors will have a decision to make.

WA council meeting in disarray after residents call for sex education books to be restricted

City of Albany councillors will have to vote on whether or not they should restrict access to books from their local library that a group of residents has claimed are “sexualising children”.

  • Holly Thompson
Spindrift estate earthworks.

Lot release sells out in 48 hours as demand outpaces supply in WA

Seachangers and FIFO workers are snapping up land and homes in coastal towns in regional WA.

  • Sarah Brookes
Police are investigating.

Woman who ran Albany family day care charged with rape of young boy

A 61-year-old woman has been charged by police who allege she abused a boy aged four and five years old who was in her care in the 1990s.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
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Monica Stockdale was strangled to death by Jacob Hoysted (inset).

Aged care worker who strangled 70-year-old WA woman to death had a fixation on serial killers

His own defence lawyer said it seemed extraordinary that someone with Jacob Hoysted’s background was left to care for vulnerable people.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Burgess told the court Blum shared the threat with her during a conversation eight months before the incident.

WA mum accused of attempting to kill disabled daughter, court told

The woman denies attempting to kill her disabled daughter after allegedly telling medical professionals the child was deteriorating and “nearing the end of her life”.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Students at Djinda Ngardak working alongside chefs from Fervor.

Annual WA food festival will make you taste the south afresh

Ever eaten kangaroo? No you haven’t – well, not like this, anyway.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
There’s no sign of Perth’s house price growth slowing in the near term.

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

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