Western Australia

Former Braeside Primary School principal Geoffrey Noel MacNicol has been charged with child sex offences.

Primary school principal charged with child sex offences

The alleged offences occurred during the January school holidays.

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The couple, whose identity is suppressed, were convicted of child neglect on two grounds - under-nourishing and infantilising their only child - after a four-and-a-half-week trial in November.

Neglectful parents of ‘starving ballerina’ launch appeal

The mother and father of Floreat’s ‘starving ballerina’ are trying to overturn their convictions and hefty jail terms after a District Court trial that gripped WA.

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Preliminary report on the Rottnest seaplane crash has been relieased by the ATSB.

Pilot’s text before Rottnest seaplane tragedy revealed

Text messages have been exposed between a seaplane pilot and aviation company before a fatal island crash, as investigators piece together how three people tragically died.

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Fake butcher profiles have been flooding local community pages, offering cheap meat and scamming people out of hundreds of dollars.

Fake butcher profiles scamming WA locals out of hundreds

West Australians are urged to be alert when looking for ways to slash their grocery bill.

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Police have made a massive MDMA bust on the NSW, Queensland border.

Byron Bay MDMA bust worth $5.5m headed for WA, NSW

Police in two states have executed a huge drug bust after a year long investigation and in the process secured nearly $5.5 million worth of MDMA headed for NSW and WA.

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At his Supreme Court of WA trial last year, Hassan W. Jabbie accused other members of the Liberian community of committing the horrendous murder.

Huge sentence for dad who brutally murdered pregnant lover

The 53-year-old father-of-two said he started hitting her ‘non-stop’ then bludgeoned her, describing ending her life as ‘hard work’ that ‘wasn’t quick’.

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February 2025 is officially the wettest month on record for some north Queensland towns.

Tropical cyclone intensifies as residents ready for more extreme weather

Tropical cyclone Alfred has intensified to a category two storm and is likely to continue worsening.

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A tropical cyclone is forming off the coast of Queensland, and another off Western Australia.

Two-state threat as more tropical cyclones intensify off coast

Tropical cyclones have formed and are intensifying off the coast of Western Australia and Queensland bringing risk of more severe weather.

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A 19-year-old who allegedly cut off his father’s arm with a samurai sword on a Kalgoorlie-Boulder street after his father-in-law was allegedly struck with a baseball bat has been refused bail.

Bail denied for man who ‘sliced off dad’s arm with katana’

The gruesome details of Jaxon Jai Trinidad’s alleged offending were read to Kalgoorlie Magistrates Court on Friday after his Legal Aid lawyer applied for bail.

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Footage of Cassius Turvey’s last few moments before he was chased into bushland then brutally bashed with a metal pole has been played during the trial of his accused killers.

Footage of Cassius Turvey’s last few moments played in court

Cassius Turvey’s last few moments before he was chased into bushland then brutally bashed with a metal pole has been played during the trial of his accused killers.

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Rhys Bellinge has been charged over a fatal crash in Dalkeith, Perth.

Perth doctor’s tears as bail decision over fatal crash confirmed

The high-profile obstetrician has been charged with manslaughter and dangerous driving.

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Rhys Bellinge, accused of killing a young woman in a drunken, high-speed crash in Perth, wants to wait out his next court date from the comfort of his father’s western suburbs mansion.

High-profile doctor’s $1 million move over crash that killed 24-year-old woman

Rhys Bellinge is accused of being four times over the legal limit while driving at 130km/h in a suburban street before the crash.

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Landen Sturman was making a cheese toastie at home when he tripped backwards into an open dishwasher and fell on to a steak knife.

Boy impaled with knife in freak dishwasher accident

Doctors said the 10-year-old Mandurah boy escaped paralysis by a ‘millimetre’s difference’. 

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