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Amber Wilkinson

Amber Wilkinson

Amber Wilkinson is a reporter for 9 News Perth.

An ambulance at the scene of the incident in Armadale on Monday afternoon.

‘Fuel thief’ behind bars for alleged hit-and-run drive-off as six WA petrol stations run dry

A Perth man accused of stealing fuel from a petrol station and then running over an attendant with his car as he fled will spend the next fortnight behind bars. 

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Former deputy CEO of regional council arrested.

WA’s youngest deputy CEO of a council accused of fraud, stealing

Sam Anthony Curulli, 27, is accused of corruption and stealing while employed at the Shire of Coorow in the Mid West region.

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Police at the scene on Sunday.

Police investigate after man found dead in Yanchep

Police were called to the Yanchep street on Sunday.

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Kaleb Brunsdon died after a head-on crash on Perth’s Mitchell Freeway. There are now questions about a nearby intersection believed to have played a role in a similar crash several months ago. Pictures: Supplied

Father of Mitchell Freeway crash victim says son had his whole life ahead of him

The northern section of the Mitchell Freeway, which opened in 2023, is again in the spotlight after two more people died on Sunday night in a wrong-way collision.

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Chun Lie Yuen arriving at Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

Burswood car meet crash driver jailed for hitting teen spectator

The foreign student, 25, admitted to striking the teen as she gathered as part of a crowd on Camfield Drive. 

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WA Police’s new powers to search for knives has been successful.

A meat cleaver, axes: The weapons taken away under WA Police’s new search laws

Police Minister Reece Whitby says the statistics show the laws are proving successful.

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WA homicide detectives are appealing for information to solve how Perth grandfather, Elmars Kalejs, died.

Perth man appears in court over grandfather’s mystery death

A member of the public found Elmars Kalejs at about midday on Good Friday in a carpark near the Settlers’ Common Environmental Centre in Bedfordale.

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Police examine an electric off-road motorbike involved in a fatal crash in Edgewater on Saturday.

‘Out of control’ teen who allegedly killed woman on e-motorbike released on bail

The teenager who allegedly crashed an off-road electric motorbike into a pedestrian in Perth’s north, killing the 59-year-old nurse, has been released on bail.

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Perth doctor Rhys Bellinge.

Perth obstetrician ‘driving 130km/h in 50 zone’ before fatal crash, court told

The family of a young woman killed in the crash says, “our world is shattered” as a Perth doctor remains in custody charged with manslaughter.

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The man shot himself in the hospital’s emergency department.

Man shot himself inside Perth emergency department after partner pronounced dead

A witness has claimed the man pulled out a homemade gun after his partner was pronounced dead by hospital staff.

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