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Rachel van Oyen has been sentenced over the death of her twin daughters in a Wheatbelt car crash.

Mum sentenced over death of ‘magical’ twin girls in highway crash

The mother previously admitted to careless driving when the family’s car left the road and hit a tree.

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Acting road police commander Mike Peters is 'deeply concerned' by state road toll statistics.

Another family shattered as state’s horrific road trend continues

The devastation has prompted police to issue a renewed appeal to drivers.

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Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and Minister for Defence Personnel Matt Keough visit Veem in Canning Vale.

Marles nukes Turnbull, insists AUKUS is ‘a good deal’

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has shot down suggestions that AUKUS is a ‘really bad deal’ that is in trouble after the reemergence of Donald Trump in the White House.

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West Aussies are being urged to check their Lotto numbers as a $1.6 million ticket sits unclaimed.

CHECK YOUR TICKETS: $1.6 million Lotto prize unclaimed

One West Aussie has just become a millionaire, and they don’t even know it yet.

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Three people have been killed in a horror crash south of Perth.

Three killed in horror crash south of Perth

Two men and a woman, all aged in their 20s, died at the scene.

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Seb Foufas was killed after the white Isuzu ute he was a passenger in, lost control and rolled in the mudflats next to Old Yanchep Road, Pinjar.

Tributes to 18-year-old killed in off-road rollover

The 18-year-old who tragically died in an off-road rollover on Perth’s northern outskirts on Friday night has been remembered as ‘too good of a person to leave this Earth’.

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Videos have emerged of students boxing each other at Halls Head College.

WATCH: Footage shows wild Year 8 ‘fight club’ at WA school

Shocking footage has emerged of wild brawls happening in a classroom during school time. WATCH THE VIDEO

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The stomach bug has spread through swimming pools.

WA Health issues warning after spike in cases of gastro bug

WA Health has issued a major health warning over cryptosporidiosis which has spread via swimming pools, childcare centres and through infected food.

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Police think they may have unmasked a serial killer after an extraordinary breakthrough in the unsolved 1979 murder of Kerryn Tate.

Is this former Australian soldier a hidden serial killer?

Police think they may have unmasked a serial killer after an extraordinary breakthrough in the unsolved 1979 murder of Kerryn Tate.

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Steven Payne, 37, vanished while surfing at Wharton Beach, near Esperance in Western Australia’s south, on Monday.

Surfer killed in WA shark attack remembered as ‘really good lad’

Tragic details have emerged after the 37-year-old’s ‘heartbreaking’ death on Monday.

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A surfer has been attacked at Wharton Beach near Esperance in WA.

Victorian surfer taken by shark in front of horrified partner identified

The couple and their dog were just weeks into dream holiday when tragedy struck near Esperance in WA.

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Dante Arthurs killed Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia Shu at Livingston Marketplace shopping centre.

Thousands petition to keep evil child killer behind bars

The family of a young girl murdered by one of the country’s most evil child killers fear he could reoffend if he is released on parole in just a matter of weeks.

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Nicola Forrest and Philippa Watson.

Nicola Forrest brings in banker to helm new family office

Wealthy philanthropist Nicola Forrest has begun making moves at her new family office by poaching a banker as the firm’s first chief executive.

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Allegations have been made about the Kingsley Football Club treating its women’s team differently to their male counterparts with its resources.

Footy club in Perth’s north hit by mass player exodus

Allegations have been made about the club treating its women’s team differently to their male counterparts with its resourcing.

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