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  • Go-ahead for plant to convert waste into electricity

    Port Hedland 6721 The State Government has given final environmental approval for a facility in the Pilbara that would convert domestic waste into electricity.New Energy's facility near Port Hedland would be the first of its size in Australia.The plant is expected to process up to 255,000 tonnes of waste a year and potentially power 21,000 homes.It will also include a recycling ...

  • Man charged over fatal motorbike crash

    A 63-year-old Stirling man has been charged with dangerous driving occasioning death following a Major Crash investigation.About 5.30am on May 10, a 74-year-old man was riding his Honda motorcycle south on Fitzgerald Street when it collided with a Daewoo sedan being driven north along the same road.Police will allege it was the 63-year-old man who was driving the Daewoo when the crash occurred ...

  • Stirling man charged over crash

    POLICE have charged a 63-year-old Stirling man with dangerous driving occasioning death after his car and a motorcycle collided in Northbridge on May ...

  • McKenna denies molesting female boarders

    Katanning 6317 A former supervisor at a country hostel in Western Australia has denied that he sexually molested two female boarders more than 30 years ago.Wayne McKenna is on trial accused of indecently dealing with two girls when they were boarders at the St Andrews Hostel in Katanning in 1980 and 1981.In a video police interview played to the District Court today, McKenna denied the ...

  • Waste-to-energy plant gets green light

    HOUSEHOLD rubbish will be converted into electricity after the final environmental approvals were made for the State's first large scale waste-to-energy ...


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Chicken Little

Chicken Little

Exhibit A in the case of Why Disney Needs Pixar is Chicken Little, Disneys first solo computer-animated effort. Although a perfectly presentable animated comedy, it lacks any sense of magic or true innovation. Its cobbled-together story feels like Childrens Comedy 101 thrown ... ...

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  • Premier flags WA public sector job cuts

    WESTERN Australia's post-election austerity mode will include a review of the public sector, with Premier Colin Barnett refusing to rule out job ...

  • Three dead in horror five hours on WA roads

    THREE people have been killed in a horror five-hour stretch on WA roads, including two men in country crashes and a woman pedestrian in the ...

  • Barnett won’t rule out job cuts

    WA's post-election austerity mode will include a review of the public sector, with Premier Colin Barnett refusing to rule out job cuts.Since the March 9 victory by the Liberal party, the re-elected Government has flagged significant budget pressures, and banned Government advertising to save money amid suggestions of a $2 billion write-down of pre-polling revenue estimates.Today, Mr Barnett ...

  • Plane flying low before crash with chopper

    The surviving pilot of a mid-air crash in the remote Gascoyne that killed the two occupants of a small plane told a coronial inquest today that he could think of no other explanation for the plane being so low other than his fellow pilot was dealing with an emergency.William Maher was the experienced helicopter pilot involved in a State Government feral goat culling operation in February 2008, ...

  • Frenchman on trial for Broome murder

    Broome 6725 Lawyers are making their final submissions to the jury in a three-week murder trial in Broome.23-year-old Frenchman Thomas Camus is on trial in the Supreme Court in Broome accused of fatally stabbing 32-year-old Pilbara man Kristopher Dixon on Christmas morning in 2011.Both men had been drinking with friends at the town's only nightclub.The jury has been shown graphic mobile ...

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