Up to your eyeballs in debt? Join the club as WA mortgages break record

Up to your eyeballs in debt? Join the club as WA mortgages break record

The average figure West Australians are taking out for mortgages has broken the record,jumping more than $30,000 in just three months.

  • byMichael Genovese

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WA childcare service accused of taking tens of thousands from parents
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WA childcare service accused of taking tens of thousands from parents

Consumer Protection is warning WA families to steer clear after at least 37 disgruntled customers claim to have lost more than $37,000 between them.

  • byMichael Genovese
Transperth driver sacked after boy dragged 300m by bus

Transperth driver sacked after boy dragged 300m by bus

On Thursday Perth Transport Authority said the driver responsible for dragging a boy 300 metres by a bus which left him with a broken pelvis and hand and two skin grafts,has been sacked.

  • byMichael Genovese
Police to get sweeping search powers under new WA anti-knife legislation
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Police to get sweeping search powers under new WA anti-knife legislation

WA Police will be given sweeping powers to search people for knives in public under legislation modelled on Queensland’s “Jack’s Law”.

  • byMichael Genovese
Liberals’ star WA candidate pulls out of race for Tangney after family ‘medical episode’

Liberals’ star WA candidate pulls out of race for Tangney after family ‘medical episode’

The former reality TV star is withdrawing from the race after a close family member suffered a serious medical episode requiring intensive medical care in Melbourne.

  • byMichael Genovese andHamish Hastie
St John Ambulance drivers told to hit the brakes

St John Ambulance drivers told to hit the brakes

St John Ambulance has reduced the maximum speeds its drivers can reach while responding to life-threatening emergencies.

  • byMichael Genovese
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The Perth suburbs with the most electric vehicles … will soon face competition

The Perth suburbs with the most electric vehicles … will soon face competition

WAtoday can reveal the areas with the biggest EV purchasing power,even as the state government moves to level the playing field.

  • byMichael Genovese
Final text of slain ‘radicalised’ Perth schoolboy revealed

Final text of slain ‘radicalised’ Perth schoolboy revealed

The 16-year-old student was killed in a Bunnings car park after stabbing a stranger in the back with a large kitchen knife,and then chasing and lunging at police.

  • byHeather McNeill andMichael Genovese
Rossmoyne principal offers support to students after Willetton shooting

Rossmoyne principal offers support to students after Willetton shooting

The principal wrote to parents and carers to inform them “with great sadness” that a young person from the school had died.

  • byMichael Genovese andJamie Freestone
WA police union calls for sweeping anti-knife laws
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WA police union calls for sweeping anti-knife laws

The premier has given the strongest indication yet that he will commit to laws allowing police to use metal-detecting wands in a wide range of public places.

  • byMichael Genovese
WA moves on anti-knife laws in wake of Sydney stabbings
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WA moves on anti-knife laws in wake of Sydney stabbings

New laws being considered by the WA attorney-general would be modelled on Queensland’s “Jack’s Law”,which was brought in following a fatal stabbing on the Gold Coast.

  • byMichael Genovese