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Jan 16, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Jessica Shackleton
Two tropical lows sitting off Western Australia's northern coast look set to combine, with chances increasing they could form into a tropical cyclone as soon as Sunday. The systems have already brought heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and flooding to parts of the Pilbara this week. The low closest to the Kimberley region, named 11U, looks likely to absorb another system, 10U — and forecasters say there's a 55 per cent chance the duo could intensify into a tropical cyclone.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Jessica Shackleton
Displays of courtship, such as dancing, singing and dazzling colour, have been heavily documented in the animal kingdom. But a far less subtle behaviour has been documented for the first time among the whale sharks at Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef, 1,250 kilometres north of Perth. Researcher Christine Barry, a PhD candidate from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, said she knew straight away the behaviour was unique.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Giulia Bertoglio |Charlie McLean |Jessica Shackleton |Brianna Melville |Andrew Chounding
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made housing the centrepiece of his latest election pitch to Western Australia, pledging to "unlock" more than 1,000 homes across the state's regional communities. Touching down in Kununurra last night after a whistlestop tour of the Top End, Mr Albanese said the $200 million package would help ease the housing crunch across multiple WA cities as well as boost community infrastructure.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Jessica Shackleton |Rosemary Murphy
The Harding River, known to Ngarluma traditional owners as the Ngurin', is flowing for the first time in years. Pilbara residents got their own new year's sky-show overnight, with thunderstorms and heavy rain bringing up to 77 millimetres at Indee Station. The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast more thunderstorms this evening.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessica Shackleton |Michelle Stanley
A research project in the Pilbara has taken a hit after 3,000 tropical rock oysters were stolen. The oysters were part of a trial program to breed the "largest and best growing" oysters for commercial sale. But thieves have stolen thousands of the best bivalves from their pens at Cossack, 1,480 kilometres north of Perth.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessica Shackleton |Charlie Mills |Michelle Stanley
More than 100mm of rain has brought isolated flooding to the Pilbara town of Marble Bar. At least three people have been rescued from floodwater in the past week. Heavy rain is set to continue this week. A town which prides itself on being Australia's hottest has become one of the wettest with heavy rainfall cutting car access. More than 100 millimetres of rain has fallen in parts of WA's Pilbara region in the past week.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessica Shackleton
The Baumgartens were on their first family holiday, in Queensland, when they got a phone call no-one ever wants to receive. In the West Australian town of South Hedland, about 1,600 kilometres north of Perth, their home was on fire. "There were so many calls, a lot of panic, a lot of questions were asked like, 'Where are the keys?'" Latoya Baumgarten said. Long-time family friend Mel Duschyer was alerted to the house fire on Broadhurst Way and ran to the scene.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessica Shackleton |Charlie McLean
Another summer has arrived in the remote West Australian town of Roebourne and as temperatures begin to rise, Ngarluma woman Kaylene Daniel worries about her son. He is preparing to be relocated to one of the hottest prisons in the country, where the long-awaited installation of air-conditioning isn't scheduled to be finished until mid-next year. "Thinking of my son coming back to this overcrowding prison and the heat," she said.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessica Shackleton
Efforts have been made to smooth tensions between a junior miner and Andrew Forrest's Wyloo Metals over the financing of a rare earths project in Western Australia. However, there are concerns the "unsightly" and "public" rift between Hastings Technology Metals and Wyloo will be damaging and could deter future investors. Hastings Technology Metals has plans to build the $949 million Yangibana rare earths and niobium mine 1,144 kilometres north of Perth.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessica Shackleton |Rosemary Murphy
Stormy weather continues to batter Western Australia, with residents of a Pilbara mining town the latest to bear the brunt. Locals in Tom Price, about 1,450 kilometres north of Perth, were left shaken after a severe thunderstorm damaged buildings, ripped up trees and forced the closure of shops when it hit town on Wednesday afternoon. Loading... Schools and day cares went into lockdown as the storm intensified during the afternoon.
