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Police are asking for help to find two stolen cars that were taken from houses in Perth’s north overnight.
It is alleged two men with machetes broke into a house on Soham Way in Butler, and tole a white Toyota Corolla sedan.
About 10 minutes later, a car was used to ram a garage door on Millom Street in Butler and the two men – still armed with machetes – went inside the house.
Police say they threatened a woman at house and tried to get into her bedroom before running from the area on foot.
Around 5.50am, police said they received a report three men were trying to get into a house on Jutland Rise in Ocean Reef, before leaving on foot.
Then about 10 minutes later, police say the four men tried again at a new house in Tarolinta Gardens in Ocean Reef. Only one of the men had a machete.
They got into the house and struck the female resident with the machete’s handle before stealing a blue BMW 4 Series car. The woman suffered a laceration.
“At each incident, the unknown males were described as wearing dark clothing with balaclavas,” a police spokesperson said.
“Anyone who sights either of the stolen motor vehicles is advised not to approach, but to contact police immediately.”
The Department of Communities has put out a fresh call for helping a teenage boy who has been missing for nearly two weeks.
Aiden Ashton is 14-years-old and has been missing since September 12.
He is known to visit the Fremantle library, Woodman Point car park, Cockburn Youth Centre, the Kelmscott train station and the Perth CBD.
The teenager is described as having freshly dyed dark brown hair, with brown eyes and is about 165 centimetres tall.
He was last seen wearing an Aboriginal artwork polo shirt with brown, black, orange and pink colours, beige shorts and black runners.
Anyone with information should call police on 131444.
Woodside has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japanese energy and electricity giants to supply liquid hydrogen from its planned hydrogen facility in Kwinana.
The MOU between Woodside, Japan Suiso Energy, and The Kansai Electric Power Company will see the three companies work together to establish a liquid hydrogen supply chain from Woodside’s H2Perth project in the Rockingham and Kwinana industrial areas, which will be shipped to Japan for energy production.
Representatives from the companies were joined by Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King and WA Premier Roger Cook in Japan on Thursday to sign the MOU.
After fanfare surrounding H2Perth when it was first announced in 2021 Woodside has remained relatively quiet on the future of the project, while other nearby hydrogen projects like BP’s $1 billion nearby green hydrogen project, H2Kwinana, have been put on ice.
H2Perth is a blue hydrogen project, meaning the hydrogen is derived from natural gas but it’s production is brought down to net zero with a combination of carbon capture and storage and purchasing carbon offsets.
H2Perth is currently undergoing an environmental assessment.
In October 2024 Woodside also signed an offtake agreement with Singaporean company Keppel to help it power its data centres.
Woodside expects to open its hydrogen refueller and storage facility at the future H2 Perth site next year
Perth grandmother Donna Nelson will have to serve the entirety of her six-year prison sentence after a Japanese court ruled that it would not overturn her drug-smuggling conviction.
Nelson was arrested in January 2023 at Tokyo’s Narita Airport after two kilograms of methamphetamine was found hidden in the lining of her suitcase.
Nelson maintained she was the victim of a love scam and that her online lover “Kelly” had arranged for her to bring the suitcase from Laos because he told her he was a fashion designer in Japan, and he wanted to sell the case in one of his shops.
Nelson’s two daughters and two grandchildren travelled to Chiba for the outcome today, previously telling 9News Perth that losing the appeal would trigger a request to the Australian government for a prisoner transfer, so the 59-year-old could serve out her sentence on home soil.
More to come.
Western Australia is approaching one of its worst road tolls in 10 years.
The Road Safety Commission says 137 people have died on our roads already in 2025, outstripping last year’s figures by 5.
The total number of fatalities on both metropolitan and regional roads for 2025 are nearly the same – 69 and 68, respectively.
WA Police warned they would be out in force at the weekend, as double demerits come into effect.
“It’s spring holiday time, it’s a great time to be out and about, but in terms of road safety … these holiday periods are a time of increased risk, particularly on regional roads,” Road Safety Commissioner Adrian Warner said.
“If you look at the last five years, on average, we see a 12 per cent spike in crashes and killed in serious injuries over these spring holiday periods.”
WA Police Acting Commander Glenn Spencer said the AFL grand final weekend would also have his officers on high alert.
“You can expect that if you return a positive breath test, road policing staff will then give you a drug test as well, just to make sure that you’re not driving with both drugs and alcohol in your system,” he said.
Warner said there was still time for West Australians to cap the road toll for the year.
“If we continue the trend over the last two months to the end of the year, 2025 will not be the worst year in a decade,” he said.
“The choice is in our hands.”
Qantas customers may note some nifty new features on board domestic flights from Thursday as the first two of its new Airbus A321XLR aircraft enter commercial service, part of the Qantas Group’s multibillion-dollar fleet overhaul.
The first of the long-awaited next-generation planes took to the skies on Thursday with an inaugural Sydney-Perth flight.
The new planes will replace Qantas’ ageing Boeing 737s, and feature wider economy seats, larger windows and fast, free Wi-Fi. The aircraft also addresses a common passenger pain point: new larger overhead bins feature 60 per cent more baggage space.
Last month, Qantas announced orders for an additional 20 A321XLRs, taking its total Airbus orders to 48 aircraft, in a bid to accelerate its fleet renewal program.
Crucially, the highly efficient single-aisle planes can fly 8700 kilometres – more than 3000 kilometres further than the 737 (the “XLR” in the A321’s name stands for “extra long range”) – opening up more domestic and short-haul international routes for the airline, while taking pressure off existing crowded routes.
While new international routes are yet to be confirmed for the A321XLR, Qantas domestic chief executive Markus Svensson said the extended range opened up the possibility of adding “destinations across South-East Asia and the Pacific Islands that are not viable with our current narrowbody fleet”.
Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson has previously indicated the aircraft will lead to an increase in routes to South-East Asia.
Perth-India is also a possibility.
The WA Electoral Commission has been forced to fix a raft of issues with its local government election postal votes.
Some voters have received incorrect ballot papers and a small number received envelopes that were pre-sealed before they could be used to vote.
WAtoday has seen some voting envelopes with illegible return addresses that were sent to South Perth voters.
The commission is facing increased scrutiny ahead of the October election following the disaster that unfolded during the March state poll.
In a statement, the commission said the “isolated issues” had only impacted a small number of the 1.7 million postal votes that had already been sent out.
It said the issues had been resolved, and replacement votes had been sent.
“While these issues are limited in scope, we understand the importance of ensuring every eligible elector can participate in the upcoming local government elections,” Acting Electoral Commissioner Dennis O’Reilly said.
“We continue to actively work with our suppliers and Local Governments to ensure the election runs as smoothly as possible.”
Voters who spot issues with their voting material can call the WAEC Helpline on 9214 7220 or visit elections.wa.gov.au.
Job vacancies in Western Australia have inched higher in the August quarter, despite a seasonally adjusted national decline of 2.7 per cent.
Australian Bureau of Statistics data revealed vacancies in WA grew by 0.3 per cent in the three months to August after dropping by 6.3 per cent in previous quarter.
Private sector vacancies grew by 1.2 per cent – again bucking a national decline of 3.4 per cent – but public sector vacancies plunged by 13.9 per cent.
Nationally, there were 327,700 job vacancies, comprising 288,700 private sector vacancies and 38,400 public sector vacancies.
In WA, there were 40,600 job vacancies in the three months to August, up from 40,400 the previous quarter, but down from a peak of 66,500 vacancies in February 2022.
Detectives have launched a fresh search of hundreds of mine shafts in Western Australia’s outback in their mission to find Jennie Kehlet.
The search of 300 mine shafts is the cold case team’s eighth trip to the Goldfields this year, and they’ve brought with them a new tool to explore the bottom of the mine shafts.
Jennie and her husband Ray Kehlet were prospecting in the Goldfields with another man, Graham Milne, in 2015 when the couple disappeared.
Ray’s body was found down a mine shaft, but Jennie remains missing a decade on.
Police say the couple’s belongings were all accounted for, save for three items: a pair of boots, gloves, and a quad bike key.
As gold mining companies begin to move in on the area with plans to overturn the land, it’s a race against time to search as many shafts as possible.
On Wednesday, police revealed a shaft known as the “water shaft”, located about 200 metres from where Ray’s body was found, was an area of interest.
“Even though these people have been missing for 10 years, it’s never put to a resolution until such time as we can categorically say we’ve done everything possible,” said Detective Sergeant Peter Sloan.
A Fremantle cafe strip icon his hit the market, with the enduringly popular Timezone arcade up for sale.
The arcade has been a part of the port city’s famed central street for more than four decades, and has now been listed by Cushman & Wakefield, which described Timezone as a “cornerstone of WA’s leisure landscape” in the pitch to potential buyers.
The new owners could expect a net income of about $451,134 a year from the “blue-chip generational tenant”.
Timezone still has four years, four months remaining on its current seven-year lease, but the agents noted the site has “future multi-level development potential”.
Expressions of interest for the Timezone building close on October 17.