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Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, gold, iron-ore, kalgoorlie-6430, wa
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Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, gold, iron-ore, kalgoorlie-6430, wa
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| UpdatedGold exploration in WA hits a fresh four-year high in the December quarter.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, gold, iron-ore, kalgoorlie-6430, wa
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A three-month drug investigation results in detectives jailing 13 alleged traffickers and testing the city's sewerage for drugs.
Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, kalgoorlie-6430, esperance-6450
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Despite having Australia's worst-performing economy, WA communities will get nothing from the new $220-million regional jobs and investment package.
Topics: regional-development, federal-parliament, federal---state-issues, kalgoorlie-6430, broome-6725, geraldton-6530, karratha-6714, albany-6330, esperance-6450, perth-6000
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About 1,600 kilometres of the Outback Way, billed as Australia's longest shortcut, remains unsealed and backers have asked the Federal Government for another $400 million to finish sealing the route by 2025.
Topics: regional, federal-government, states-and-territories, laverton-6440, winton-4735, alice-springs-0870, kalgoorlie-6430
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Topics: domestic-violence, women, prisons-and-punishment, animation, film, community-education, kalgoorlie-6430
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Women inmates at a WA prison have drawn on their personal experience of domestic violence to create a new short film.
Topics: womens-health, women, domestic-violence, prisons-and-punishment, animation, film, short-film, community-education, kalgoorlie-6430
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| UpdatedThe Madam of Hay Street's century-old Questa Casa Brothel says neither the Government or Opposition has the will for serious reform of the sex industry.
Topics: prostitution, elections, state-parliament, kalgoorlie-6430, perth-6000
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Topics: reptiles, amphibians, environment-education, conservation, deserts, animal-science, rainfall, weather, kalgoorlie-6430
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Topics: reptiles, amphibians, environment-education, conservation, deserts, animal-science, rainfall, weather, kalgoorlie-6430
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| UpdatedTopics: reptiles, amphibians, environment-education, conservation, deserts, animal-science, rainfall, weather, kalgoorlie-6430
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| UpdatedWidespread rainfall across Western Australia's desert region allows dormant turtles to dig out of their burrows.
Topics: reptiles, amphibians, conservation, deserts, animal-science, kalgoorlie-6430
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Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold continues playing its cards close to its chest regarding the sale of its 50 per cent stake in Kalgoorlie-Boulder's iconic Super Pit.
Topics: mining-industry, gold, kalgoorlie-6430
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Topics: weather, storm-event, storm-disaster, esperance-6450, albany-6330, williams-6391, ravensthorpe-6346, kalgoorlie-6430, bunbury-6230, geraldton-6530
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WA's peak road transport industry body says supply routes are crumbling after years of neglect, with recent flooding events exacerbating the issue.
Topics: road-transport, floods, storm-disaster, storm-event, ravensthorpe-6346, jerdacuttup-6346, albany-6330, kalgoorlie-6430, broome-6725, geraldton-6530, esperance-6450, halls-creek-6770, bunbury-6230
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Topics: secondary-schools, public-schools, primary-schools, distance-education, regional, kalgoorlie-6430
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For parents in the regions school choices can be limited, plus the unspoken belief among some parents that local schools might be unsuitable.
Topics: secondary-schools, public-schools, regional, education-industry, access-to-education, distance-education, kalgoorlie-6430, esperance-6450
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| UpdatedThe fate of $60,000 of gold stolen from a West Australian mine site by three men is set to be decided by a Kalgoorlie court, with police due to apply for it to be forfeited to the state.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, police, kalgoorlie-6430, coolgardie-6429
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Western Australia's peak environmental lobby group claims uranium miner Cameco is unlikely to prioritise development of its projects in the state in the wake of a quarterly profit that was lower than expected.
Topics: uranium-mining, business-economics-and-finance, wa, kalgoorlie-6430
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Topics: rural-women, mining-industry, disabilities, kalgoorlie-6430
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Jayne Finch contracted meningococcal as a 21-year-old student and lost her hearing overnight, but it has not stopped her building a diverse career in the mining industry.
Topics: mining-rural, human-interest, rural-women, work, kalgoorlie-6430
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Emergency accommodation is being erected in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for about 80 residents from the remote Aboriginal community of Tjuntjuntjara who have been stranded due to widespread flooding.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, emergency-incidents, floods, weather, housing, charities-and-community-organisations, volunteers, community-and-society, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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