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The Latest Breaking News from Perth

Scots cancer teen Lily Douglas to be laid to rest today in 'celebration of her life'

The 14-year-old's funeral will take place in St Matthew's Church on Tay Street, Perth, at 2.30pm on Friday.

Daily Record

Good news possibly coming for empty Perth City Centre store

Two years locked up, the Beales building has been attracting interest in making a new start at the heart of the Fair City.

Daily Record

Perth festival production of climate change work criticised for ‘farcical’ fossil fuel sponsorship

Activists are calling on the festival to drop the Pulitzer-winning orchestral work Become Ocean due to a sponsorship deal from Woodside Energy

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Man with COVID-19 dies in Perth hospital as WA records 51 local cases among 99 new infections

Western Australia records 51 local cases of COVID-19 among a total of 99 new infections, with the Premier also announcing the death of an unvaccinated man in his 70s at Joondalup Hospital.

ABC News

Overseas nurse answers the call to come to WA but training issues keep her off the floor

Nurse Alina Brown ran a COVID ward in London. Now a training issue is stopping her from getting accredited.

ABC News

Northern Redbacks all-female soccer club merges with ECU Joondalup to form Perth RedStar

One of the few women-only soccer clubs in Western Australia, the Northern Redbacks, resorts to a merger with one of Perth's biggest clubs as it battles for survival.

ABC News

Rallying call to fans for new Scottish event – the Coast2Coast

Motorsport enthusiasts can look forward to the season ahead with a new rally on the Scottish calendar and Gordon Shedden once again back in BTCC action. Our round-up also includes details of the Scots competing in the Asian Le Mans Series and awards for a rising star from Perth.

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McGowan defends WA allowing AFLW games

Western Australia premier Mark McGowan is confident other sporting codes will soon join the AFLW in hosting matches in Perth again.

AAP

Another six COVID cases confirmed at Juniper's Cygnet aged care home in Perth's south

There have now been eight confirmed cases of COVID-19 at an aged care home in Perth's south as Western Australia records its highest number of new local cases since the start of the pandemic.

ABC News

As COVID-19 reaches WA nursing homes, aged care workers are bracing for Omicron's impact

With two cases of COVID-19 confirmed at a residential facility in Perth, the union for aged care workers is hoping lessons are learned from how the sector handled Omicron in the eastern states.

ABC News

Morning mail: religious discrimination bill passes, Covid fines ‘imbalance’, Perth festival

Thursday: The Coalition has passed the controversial legislation through the lower house. Plus: Perth prepares for festival opening despite border closures

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Western Australia's big miners step up measures to keep COVID-19 out of their workforces

Western Australia's iron ore miners are doing all they can to prevent COVID-19 infiltrating their workforces.

ABC News

'Tree' cheers for stunning Perthshire pictures lauded by VisitScotland

An image of Pitlochry in the autumn has been ranked by the national tourism organisation as its most popular social media post of the region in 2021

Daily Record

Under 22s in Perth and Kinross benefit from new free bus travel scheme

Youngsters throughout the region can achieve access by applying for a national entitlement card

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Perth festival 2022 prepares for opening weekend despite border closures and cancellations

Several events have been called off, while a few artists have special dispensation to enter WA after two-weeks’ quarantine

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Everton search for next Australian talent as Tim Cahill primed for return

With Tim Cahill being primed for a potential Goodison Park return, Everton are hoping to unearth Australia’s next big football prospect through a link-up with Joondalup City in Perth

ABC News

Melbourne man who faked documents to attend Perth AFL match pleads guilty, avoids more jail time in the NT

A Melbourne man who lied his way across two states to attend the AFL grand final in Perth last year avoids more jail time after pleading guilty in a Darwin court.

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'Love struck' Ralph Gibbs, 80, admits kidnapping partner, 84, from Mandurah nursing home

A "love struck" 80-year-old man who snatched his dementia-suffering partner from a Perth nursing home and tried to drive her to Queensland pleads guilty to unlawfully detaining her.

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AAP

Glory still sweating on triple-vax mandate

Perth Glory's hopes of hosting games in Perth this season could be thwarted if the WA Government enforces a triple-vaccine mandate on visiting sides.

ABC News

Perth man uses Bear Grylls-inspired survival technique after getting lost near Esperance

Unable to find his way back to his car and with the sun setting, Perth man Glynn Sherris was worried and desperately thirsty. That was when he recalled the words of a certain English survivalist.

ABC News

Two cases of COVID-19 confirmed at Juniper's Cygnet aged care home in Bentley

A resident and a staff member at a nursing home in Perth's south test positive to the Omicron strain of COVID-19, with the facility closing its doors to visitors.

AAP

Labourer 'employee, not contractor': court

The High Court has ruled in favour of an unskilled backpacker who worked at a Perth construction site and argued he was rightly an employee, not a contractor.

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AFL finalises exemptions to enter WA

The AFL has secured exemptions for women's teams Carlton and Collingwood to play in Perth despite Western Australia's continued hard border stance.

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Heatwave leads to historic hive meltdown inside Perth wall cavity

When a Perth resident moved a couch in January after a heatwave, they were confronted by a thick, dark liquid dripping down the wall.

Daily Record

Scots nurse suspended after 'starting relationship' with mental health patient then claiming she was 'blackmailed'

Norah Jane Lily Wilson met the woman while treating her for depression, low mood and suicidal thinking on the Moredun Ward at Perth's Murray Royal Hospital.

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