Albany
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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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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