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Hilton Garden Inn, Albany.

Hilton spin-off in WA makes elegance look easy

The first Garden Inn for the Hilton brand in Australia, the Albany waterside property leans into its role as a focused-service hotel.

  • Riley Wilson

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Fatal crashes on Perth roads involving motorbikes. Aubin Grove - on the Kwinana Freeway.

Police’s message for WA motorcyclists after horror night on Perth roads

Eight people were killed on WA’s roads within the space of two weeks.

  • Hannah Murphy

He put on the world’s biggest light show ever. Now, he’s planning to beat that – here

After cracking his spine 19 years ago, Finnish artist Kari Kola took hours to walk a city block. It inspired him to work with light – on an epic scale.

  • Barry Divola
The coastal town is leading the nation.

WA regions lead the nation for property price growth: report

Albany and Geraldton saw the strongest annual increases in house price growth in Australia’s regions, according to a new report which also lays bare the challenges facing regional renters.

  • Cameron Myles
The Oval at Subi East.

Subiaco, Bunbury developments take out WA’s top landscape awards

One of the most significant urban infill projects in Perth’s built environment history and a “bold, memorable, and deeply inclusive” regional project won the top gongs.

  • Emma Young
WA Liberals candidate for Albany Tom Brough.

Medical board refers Liberals’ Albany candidate to tribunal after LGBTQI+ comments

Thomas Brough, who is an emergency doctor and City of Albany councillor, made the comment at a council meeting in February last year which WAtoday understands triggered several complaints to healthcare watchdog the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.

  • Hamish Hastie
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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
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