A concept design of the Motorsports Street Circuit in Burswood pledged by WA Labor.

As it happened:WA news on Wednesday,April 16

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The Greens WA have been criticised by the nation’s leaders for hosting a dance party on Anzac Day to raise funds for their election campaign.

Nation’s leaders slam WA Greens’ Anzac Day dance party decision

The event,which is raising funds for the political party,has also been labelled “completely inappropriate” by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

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Missing teen,Richard Tu,was last seen getting off a bus in Armdale (pictured).

‘We really love you’:Family plead for help after Perth schoolboy missing for a week

Richard Tu’s phone last pinged on the Monday night he vanished,with police mounting a large-scale search near Bedfordale,but coming up empty-handed.

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Port Beach was closed on Wednesday following the shark incident.

Man bitten by shark at Port Beach

A swimmer has been rescued from the water off Port Beach in Perth’s south after being bitten by a shark which circled him as he scrambled onto a stranger’s boat.

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Treasurer Rita Saffioti speaking with media today.

WA gets mystery $650 million road funding pledge in late-night letter

The promise came in the form of a letter sent to WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti’s office on federal budget day which revealed WA would receive 2 per cent of new infrastructure spending.

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A court sketch of Callum Davies.

‘Her innocence was cruelly taken from her’:Perth man jailed for horror Ellenbrook sexual assault

The mother of a child choked and sexually assaulted as she slept in her bedroom has tearfully described how the crime shattered her family.

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WA Police believe this yellow panel van could hold clues to the disappearance of Lisa Mott in 1980.

Yellow panel van could hold clue to 44-year-old WA murder mystery

WA Police have launched a fresh appeal for information in an attempt to solve the suspected killing of Lisa Mott in Collie in 1980.

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One of the streets in South Perth,famous for its canopy of Jacaranda trees.

Perth council offers home owners an annual ‘tree bonus’. But there’s a catch

Home owners could be paid thousands of dollars each year simply by retaining large trees on their property in an attempt to protect Perth’s dwindling tree canopy.

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Crown Perth is preparing to introduce poker machine spend and time limits.

As it happened:WA news on Wednesday,March 19

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