Posted
The changing mining industry has led to significant job losses in Port Hedland, where the battle for Brendon Grylls' Pilbara seat is intensifying amid a debate about his proposed mining tax.
Topics: elections, political-parties, mining-industry, port-hedland-6721, south-hedland-6722, karratha-6714, newman-6753
Posted
| UpdatedA Hong Kong man caught with 315 kilograms of methylamphetamine in Perth was recruited in a billiards hall and sent "over the trenches first" by a "sophisticated" drug ring most likely run out of China, a court hears.
Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, courts-and-trials, police, perth-6000, wa, canning-vale-6155, south-hedland-6722
Posted
A jury is discharged after a Hong Kong national admits his role in a drug operation that led to WA's largest methylamphetamine seizure.
Topics: courts-and-trials, drug-offences, perth-6000, south-hedland-6722
Posted
Topics: homelessness, south-hedland-6722
Posted
The Lands Minister has accepted the state government has a key role to play in cleaning an illegal camp on Crown land in the Pilbara
Topics: homelessness, governors-general-and-state-governors, indigenous-policy, local-government, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, south-hedland-6722
Posted
Topics: homelessness, south-hedland-6722
Posted
| UpdatedPilbara MP Brendon Grylls throws his support behind a bid to make Port Hedland the next trial site for the cashless welfare card, just days after police complained about a spike in alcohol-fuelled violence.
Topics: welfare, federal---state-issues, federal-government, states-and-territories, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, alcohol, port-hedland-6721, ceduna-5690, wyndham-6740, kununurra-6743, south-hedland-6722, wa
Posted
| UpdatedRelatives of Ms Dhu, a young Aboriginal woman whose death in custody sparked protests, hope a new song by a member of The Cat Empire will put attention back on her case.
Topics: death, black-deaths-in-custody, arts-and-entertainment, music, south-hedland-6722, perth-6000
Posted
Police in WA's Pilbara believe up to $300,000 worth of Coles vouchers handed out by Aboriginal corporations may have contributed to the worst spike in alcohol-fuelled violence they have seen in South Hedland in more than two years.
Topics: alcohol, assault, domestic-violence, police, port-hedland-6721, south-hedland-6722, wa
Posted
A night of drunken violence ahead of Cyclone Yvette that included the stabbing of a 17-year-old girl by a 14-year-old with scissors leads to temporary liquor restrictions in Port and South Hedland for the second time in a week.
Topics: alcohol, police, community-and-society, port-hedland-6721, south-hedland-6722
Posted
Topics: police, south-hedland-6722, karratha-6714
Posted
| UpdatedA huge storm front filled with red dust is looming over Western Australia's Pilbara as a tropical cyclone expected to make landfall over the Christmas weekend hovers off the coast.
Topics: cyclone, weather, port-hedland-6721, south-hedland-6722, wa, broome-6725
Posted
| UpdatedWA's north is facing the threat of heavy rain and flash flooding in the lead-up to Christmas, as two tropical lows hovering off the coast risk turning into low-level cyclones.
Topics: cyclones, cyclone, weather, karratha-6714, port-hedland-6721, south-hedland-6722, broome-6725, wa
Posted
| UpdatedThe young Aboriginal woman whose death in police custody was described by the WA coroner and "appalling" and "inhumane" was an affectionate and intelligent "happy-go-lucky" woman who came from a loving family.
Topics: black-deaths-in-custody, courts-and-trials, south-hedland-6722
Posted
| UpdatedThe family of Ms Dhu, whose 2014 death in custody was ruled preventable, pledge to make her death a rallying point for international racial justice campaigns.
Topics: black-deaths-in-custody, courts-and-trials, south-hedland-6722
Posted
CCTV vision showing the final hours of Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu, who died in police custody in 2014
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, black-deaths-in-custody, south-hedland-6722
Posted
| UpdatedThe WA coroner delivers a damning assessment of the treatment of an Aboriginal woman who died in custody, releasing shocking CCTV footage of her final hours and saying her life could have been saved.
Topics: death, black-deaths-in-custody, south-hedland-6722, perth-6000
Posted
| UpdatedThe West Australian coroner has handed down her findings after an inquiry into the death of Yamaji woman Ms Dhu in police custody in the state's Pilbara. This is how the case unfolded.
Topics: black-deaths-in-custody, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, police, courts-and-trials, port-hedland-6721, south-hedland-6722, wa, perth-6000
Posted
| UpdatedThe family of a 22-year-old Aboriginal woman who died in custody more than two years ago criticises a WA coroner for reserving her decision over whether to release footage of the final hours of her life.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, black-deaths-in-custody, law-crime-and-justice, south-hedland-6722, wa
Posted
| UpdatedThe West Australian coroner reserves her decision on whether a 22-year-old woman who died in police custody would have wanted CCTV footage of her final hours released publicly.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, black-deaths-in-custody, law-crime-and-justice, south-hedland-6722, wa
Posted
The Senate supports a joint motion calling on the West Australian Government to publicly release CCTV footage of an Aboriginal woman in police custody in the two days leading up to her death.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, federal-parliament, south-hedland-6722, wa
Posted
| UpdatedA police officer is charged with assault and two others face potential dismissal over an incident where two teenagers were dumped on the outskirts of a town in Western Australia's north.
Topics: police, assault, crime, south-hedland-6722
Posted
Topics: police, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, south-hedland-6722
Posted
Topics: police, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, south-hedland-6722
Posted
Police deny there is a cultural problem at the state's South Hedland station despite numerous officers being investigated.
Topics: police, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, south-hedland-6722