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  • McKenna shocked at abuse allegations

    A former supervisor at Katanning's infamous St Andrews Hostel accused of molesting female boarders told police he liked to treat children like adults but did nothing that went beyond being friendly.Wayne McKenna, 63, repeatedly said "no comment" to detectives last year as they revealed allegations he indecently dealt with the two girls at the Wheatbelt hostel in 1980 and ...

  • Sewage discharged near lake not cleaned up

    Joondalup 6027 Labor MP Dave Kelly says the Government must explain why 750,000 litres of sewage was discharged in Lake Joondalup and still has not been cleaned up.The sewage was discharged from a pumping station on the banks of the lake last November after a private contractor's sewage pump failed. Mr Kelly says the Water Corporation should never have allowed it to occur.He says there ...

  • Man held over Narrogin womans death

    Kevin James Corbett (pictured) was taken into custody today and is being quizzed by Major Crime detectives in connection with the death of Charmaine Louise Winmar, 36, who was found fatally stabbed in her Narrogin home on Saturday.No charges have been laid and police inquiries are continuing.Anyone with information about the woman's death can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 ...

  • 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 ...

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Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are a director/actor kindred soul couple if ever there were one, having now collaborated on eight movies of varying degrees of weirdness, so it should come as little surprise that they are both fans of Dark Shadows, Dan Curtiss long-cancelled Gothic sud ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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