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Hannah Murphy

Hannah Murphy

Hannah Murphy is a journalist with WAtoday.

Skyrocketing fuel prices are biting across Australia.

Fuel crisis’ impact on WA businesses revealed as some weigh ‘war time surcharges’

Some businesses in the state’s regions are debating whether it is even worth opening at all, according to new surveys released on Thursday.

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A boat ended up blown into a yard in the Pilbara.

Uncertain and destructive: Tropical Cyclone Narelle begins tracking south

Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle is expected to make landfall some time on Saturday, but authorities say it is difficult to say where exactly is in the line of fire.

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‘We’re not complacent’: Tropical Cyclone Narelle predicted to cross WA coast as ‘severe’ storm

Narelle moved off the west Kimberley coast overnight and moved out into the Indian Ocean, where it is again picking up steam before it continues its track south towards the state.

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Workers in aged, disability and child care will be among the beneficiaries of student loans.

Perth childcare fined $25,000 for leaving child on bus on 39-degree day

The tribunal heard the boy was picked up from his pre-primary class and boarded the bus with other children who had been picked up from different schools around the suburb.

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The crash happened near Fisherman’s bend.

One person winched from plane wreck, taken to hospital after crash near Broome

It is understood the plane came down about 11.25am on Thursday in the locality of Roebuck, close to Crab Creek Road.

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A Perth woman has referred a local petrol station to the ACCC after she claims they increased the price of their fuel by 30¢ in 20 minutes.

Perth woman lodges complaint after petrol price jumps 30 cents in 20 minutes

Krystallea Taniora says she went to a local retailer in order to fill up on a tank of $2.39 fuel advertised on FuelWatch. When she got there, she was slugged $2.69 a litre instead.

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The engineers found gun owner homes using publicly available software.

Estranged brother of WA bikie wins appeal after gun licence revoked

The case came before the State Administrative Tribunal earlier this month, after the WA police commissioner took the man’s gun licence away following a domestic violence incident last year.

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A police pursuit has come to a fiery end in Gosnells on Friday.

Perth man charged over dousing himself in accelerant, setting car alight in fiery end to police chase

Two officers were injured in the same incident when trying to help the man, who allegedly doused himself in an accelerant and set his car alight when a police pursuit came to an end in Gosnells last month.

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Jayson Joseph Michaels.

WA terror-accused’s gun ownership history reveals how he got access to firearms

A WA man accused of preparing “a mass casualty event” at parliament house and Muslim places of worship was at one point able to access firearms through the use of a well-known loophole in the state’s old gun laws.

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A property on fire as a bushfire rages in Beechina, east of Perth.

Mundaring blaze threat downgraded after 70 hectares burnt

Vision from the scene appears to show an abandoned house and a large shed engulfed by flames.

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