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  • Examining effects of offshore gas processing on WA

    Broome 6725 Executives from Shell and Woodside will be called to give evidence to a State Parliamentary Committee which is inquiring into the economic impact of floating LNG operations.The Economics and Industry Standing Committee will look into how offshore gas processing will affect the engineering, manufacturing, and construction sectors as well as domestic gas supply.Shell is already ...

  • $3m damage bill after multiple fires in Broome

    Broome 6725 Police investigating three arson attacks in the Kimberley town of Broome overnight have taken a 46-year-old man into custody for questioning.A fire at a roofing company in the light industrial area about 8.30pm (AWST) caused $2 million damage.A short time later two houses were set alight.$250,000 damage was caused to a home in Honeyeater Loop.Damage to a five bedroom house in ...

  • New Indigenous conservation areas for Kimberley

    Broome 6725 Four new Indigenous Protected Areas have been officially announced in the Kimberley, comprising one of the largest Indigenous conservation areas in Australia.The Bardi Jawi, Wilinggin, Balanggarra and Dambimangari Protected Areas combine with Uunguu which had already been declared.Together they make up more than 85,000 square kilometres, about 20 per cent of the Kimberley region. ...

  • Train services returning to normal

    Perth 6000 A signalling problem affecting Transperth trains has been fixed and train services in Perth are returning to normal.Commuters on the Fremantle line have been the worst affected by the problem and Transperth says it will take some time to clear the backlog of passengers.Trains on the Joondalup, Midland and Armadale lines can now bring commuters into the Perth underground ...

  • Fires cause $3m damage in Broome

    Two houses have suffered significant damage and a factory in a light industrial area has also been badly affected, with an estimated $2 million damage bill. The blaze in the industrial area took firefighters about an hour to bring under control, but they were then called to a fire which completely destroyed a house, valued at $250,000.Resources were stretched when they were called to another ...


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  • Train network running after early hitch

    Services were restored on all lines just after 6.30am after the disruptions threw the network into chaos from the start of scheduled services this morning. Initially, only one train was able to operate on the Fremantle line and that was terminating at West Leederville.The Joondalup line was running, but terminating at West Leederville.The Mandurah line was terminating at the Esplanade.The ...

  • Protest over Year 7 move

    Four thousand parents from regional WA told the Barnett Government yesterday that they do not want their children to attend Year 7 at high schools from 2015.The parents' signatures were on a petition tabled in the Legislative Council by Agricultural Region Labor MP Darren West, who said the Government policy failed to consider "social, emotional, mental and economic ...

  • WA takes big hit in gun thefts

    Police revealed that WA gun thefts accounted for about a third of the number of firearms stolen across Australia last year as they joined a national crackdown on the illicit firearms trade.Australian Crime Commission figures show that about 1500 firearms are stolen across the nation each year.The commission believes up to 250,000 rifles and 10,000 handguns could be on the firearms black market ...

  • Walking to school a lesson in health

    Parents are being urged to break their normal routine and walk their children to school today to help them form healthier habits.In its 14th year, National Walk Safely to School Day promotes safe pedestrian behaviour, the health benefits of walking and reduced car dependency by asking parents and carers to walk to school with their children.Wesley College junior school students Edward Boniface, ...

  • Muja station hangs in balance

    Verve Energy's troubled $250 million bid to revive its 47-year-old Muja AB coal-fired power station hangs in the balance, with Energy Minister Mike Nahan warning the Government may pull the plug on the costly exercise.Although it would come at significant political and taxpayer cost, Dr Nahan said that all options were being considered as part of a tough, sweeping review of his new ...

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