Portal:Western Australia/Western Australia news/Archive

The following list is an archive for former news headlines featured on Portal:Western Australia.

• 3 December 2008 - The Old Perth Fire Station is permanently listed on the Western Australian Heritage register. Read more...
• 30 November 2008 - Suspected asylum seekers reach the shore of Shark Bay. Read more...
• 29 November 2008 - Scientists find that woylies are increasingly endangered due to parasites. Read more...
• 26 November 2008 - The Water Corporation announces the planned construction of the second desalination plant at Binningup. Read more...
• 26 September 2008 - recent rains in the southwest may boost the states harvest by 11 million tonnes. Read more...
• 24 September 2008 - DEC officers report a record number of Southern Right Whales between Albany and Augusta. Read more...
• 15 September 2008 - A helicopter crashed in the Kimberley region, killing the pilot and three passengers.Read more...
• 7 August 2008 - Premier Alan Carpenter calls an early election.
• 17 July 2008 - Study finds Perth car parks are the fifth-most expensive in the world. Read more...
• 3 June 2008 - Gas pipeline explodes at Varanus Island, plunging WA into a gas crisis.
• 29 May 2008 - $10 billion plan unveiled to build and develop six islands off Fremantle's North Quay. Read more...
• 8 May 2008 - State government releases the 2008 budget. Read more...
• 29 April - Perth records its wettest April since records began in 1876. Read more...
• 25 April 2008 - Crowd of 40,000 honours the Anzacs at Kings Park's Anzac Day service. Read more...
• 24 April 2008 - Native title ruling over Perth remains unresolved. Read more...
• 21 April 2008 - Albany will host international sailing championship in 2011. Read more...
• 23 December 2007 - Mandurah railway line opens Read more...
• 22 December 2007 - Former Premier of Western Australia Sir Charles Court dies at home. Read more...
• 1 October 2007 - Former Eagles premiership player Chris Mainwaring dies at his Cottesloe home.Read more...]
• 16 September 2007 - West Coast Eagles captain Chris Judd announces his decision to return to Melbourne. Read more... 1 2
• 14 September 2007 - The Press Council, the self-regulatory body of the Australian media, upholds a complaint by Attorney-General Jim McGinty that The West Australian improperly reported a matter on its front page regarding a woman awaiting hospital treatment. Read more...
• 13 September 2007 - Two teachers and 17 students from Mirrabooka Senior High School failed to reach their intended camping site on the Blackwood River during bad weather, sparking an overnight emergency search. Read more...
• 11 September 2007 - The Director of Liquor Licensing announces plans to ban liquor with an alcohol content of more than 2.7% in the Kimberley town of Fitzroy Crossing, at the request of local women. Read more...
• 7 September 2007 - The AUD $20 billion Gorgon Gas Project, jointly operated by Exxon, Shell and Chevron, has been approved by Environment Minister David Templeman at Barrow Island with strict environmental conditions. Read more...
• 6 September 2007 - A 500-page report over lead pollution at the port of Esperance describes a "litany of failures" by Magellan Metals, the Esperance Port Authority and the Department of Environment and Conservation, and makes 46 recommendations. Read more... ABC SMH
• 26 May 2007 - Three people died when there Piper Arrow crash near the town of Esperance. Read more...
• 15 May 2007 - The State Government announces that a second desalination plant will be constructed at Harvey. The plant will be built instead of tapping the Yarragadee Aquifer in the states South West. Read more...
• 4 May 2007 - Senator from Western Australia the Hon Ian Campbell announces his resignation from the Senate, he is expected to step down within weeks. Read more...
• 1 May 2007 - The state government announces a $447 million funding boost for public housing and the streamlining of land release approvals to ease the state's housing affordability crisis. Read more...
• 30 April 2007 - Ben Cousins former captain and current West Coast Eagles player returned to Perth after receiving treatment at Summit Centre in Malibu, California for substance abuse. Read more...
• 30 April 2007 - Jeff Farmer is advised not to attend a meeting with the Fremantle Football Club because of the risk of a media mobbing after his weekend arrest for assaulting a night club bouncer after being refused entry. The club has relegated him to the WAFL where he returns to South Fremantle for at least eight games. Read more...