State News - WA
6:07 PM AEST | LOIS Newton is a survivor. She knows all to well about the deadly meningococcal disease she has suffered for five years and continues to battle.
6:05 PM AEST | RIVER boards could be put into the Collie River earlier than usual if Collie does not get more rain.
6:02 PM AEST | PERDAMAN Chemicals and Fertilisers’ recent announcement of federal environmental approval for its planned $3.5 billion Collie urea plant is the next step towards putting a formal application for planning approval to the Shire of Collie.
6:02 PM AEST | COLLIE Police Senior Sergeant Rod Boehm and South West MLC Adele Farina have both expressed concerns about the release of sex offender Darren Morton Hart to live in Bunbury.
5:59 PM AEST | POLICE have seized a double-headed knife from a 17-year-old student at the Margaret River Education Campus.
5:59 PM AEST | A LOCAL couple’s baby is recovering well in Princess Margaret Hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage a day after he was born.
5:58 PM AEST | COLLIE Apex has closed. The decision was made recently by the group’s remaining four members.
5:56 PM AEST | Agreement might finally be on the way as to who should be responsible for managing the Black Dia-mond Lake area.
5:52 PM AEST | LOCAL teenager Michael Mellor has won the Child of Courage medal at the Pride of Australian awards held on Sunday.
4:58 PM AEST | THE Narrogin Eventing Association has been going since the early 1960s and held the Australian National Championships in the early 1980s.
4:56 PM AEST | AS EXPECTED, this week’s preliminary final between Robins and Miling A- and B-grades turned out to be a showdown.
4:38 PM AEST | AN OLD-stager in the Mortlock told me he had never seen three more even sides in this year's finals series than the line-up of Dalwallinu, Dowerin and Gingin.
4:35 PM AEST | THE newly refurbished Changes Boutique in Wongan Hills has the feeling of a quaint little French Provence setting with its new very pale grey carpeting and white display cabinets.
4:34 PM AEST | COMING up on October 9 is the sixth annual Wongan Drags meet to be held at the town airstrip.
4:33 PM AEST | THE Moora Rotary Club and the Moora Lions Club have joined forces to support Moora YouthCARE in sponsoring a participant in next year's Quiet Lion Tour.
4:31 PM AEST | RECENTLY all year eight students from Central Midlands Senior High School (CMSHS) were re-tested on the National Plan for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests they completed last year as year sevens.
4:30 PM AEST | FOLLOWING discussion between the Victoria Plains and Chittering shires regarding the possibility of a shared chief executive between the two shires for a 12-month trial basis, ward meetings have been held in Bolgart, Calingiri, Piawaning and New Norcia.
4:26 PM AEST | THE Shire of Dandaragan invites residents and visitors to the official opening of the Lancelin-Cervantes Road, Indian Ocean Drive stage two.
4:06 PM AEST | THE Collie Motorsports Group (CMG) held its annual Father's Day drifting and burnout competition last Sunday.
4:06 PM AEST | SUNDAY was a tremendous day for football and the good crowd that attended Pingelly for the preliminary finals were treated to three exciting games.