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Under a sweltering WA summer could these hexagonal discs save the drinking water of towns?

In its latest effort to shore-up supply, Water Corporation is adding thousands of plastic hexagons to dams to stop drinking water from being lost to evaporation.
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Man charged after alleged shooting incident on rural property

Police have charged a 37-year-old over an alleged shooting incident that occurred at a rural property in Western Australia's south.
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What happens when a GP stops bulk billing patients and pensioners can no longer afford to go to the doctor?

Patients say they are being priced out of medical care as regional clinics abandon bulk-billing because they too can no longer afford the measure. 
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Riding in the back of a ute, Adam bounced off the tray. His life hasn't been the same since

A teenager believes he has been let down by authorities following an accident in rural Western Australia that has left him in limbo and his family forced to sell their farm.
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Cow and calf struck dead by lightning after 'horrific' thunderstorm strikes WA

A West Australian farmer says two of his animals were killed by lightning after the "worst storm in years" hit his property in the state's south. WARNING: This story contains content some readers may find disturbing
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A photograph of a large lightning storm over a wheat field with lightning stiking down in the distance.

Record fuel prices didn't make this farmer switch to electric, saving his lambs did

Every year, sheep farmer Ian Kelly worries about his lambs dying to miscarriage and mismothering. Checking the flock every day on a loud petrol motorcycle was not helping.
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a man and his dog sit on an UBCO electric motorcycle

'I would want someone to come and help': Australian woman leaves to fight in Ukraine

WA mother Danica Joysdottir is in Ukraine helping the country fight Russian forces despite her partner describing the daring journey as "stupid and selfish".
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a woman eating out of a bowl

Drunk P-plater crashes while doing 170kph for social media video

P-plater crashed while filming himself behind the wheel at more than 170kmh while drunk, court hears
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Asia's insatiable chicken feet demand sees producer step up to get a foot in the door

Up to 60 per cent of China's annual chicken imports are made up solely of feet, and a WA poultry producer will soon export 150,000 a week to Asia.
Raw chicken feet on a plate.

Sustainable fertiliser on the cards as Yara aims to decarbonise food production

One of the world's biggest fertiliser manufacturers aims to decouple the link between food production and carbon emissions through a landmark trial in Western Australia.
Industrial plant at sunset surrounded by the red rock hills of the Pilbara

For just $40,000 you can build a home using the soil beneath your feet

While it may look like a replica of Luke Skywalker's dwelling on Tatooine, this house is actually a council-approved residential abode made entirely out of bags filled with soil.
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A cream coloured dome shaped home in front of a blue sky.

Why wait for 5G? We're building our own internet, say fed-up WA farmers

Everyone's familiar with slow internet or mobile-phone dropouts but for the nation's farmers — often living well beyond the range of fibre optic cables and phone towers — the stakes are a lot higher.
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A 4G tower in Narrikup, Western Australia

WA couple escape mortgage trap by building dirt dome for less than $40,000

Dismayed by the costs of home ownership in Australia, a WA couple is building their castle out of earth bags.
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Kendenup couple Kate and Scott Ryan-Taylor at the site of their earth bag home

Winning vintage becomes toast to father taken by MND

The last vintage shared by a winemaking family before losing their father and husband to motor neurone takes out top honours at National Wine Show.
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Matthew, Beverly and Clinton Gilbert with their award winning wine.

Tiny WA town carving out a name for itself as chess champion

In the small WA town of Kendenup — population 1,000 — chess champions seem to grow on trees.
A man wearing a horned viking hat holds a hammer and chisel carving a horse head chess piece from a tree trunk.

Chainsaw carver Darrel Radcliffe works on a street sculpture

Darrel Radcliffe at work with his chainsaw on the first of the Kendenup street sculptures, the King.
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Duration: 55 seconds

Beau uses weed killer, grain crop, Cessna to pop question

A young fly-in, fly-out worker combines his imagination, weed killer and a light plane to win the heart and hand of his girlfriend in Western Australia's Great Southern.
Marriage proposal written in Great Southern grain crop

Western Australian contract free range pig farmer, Ben Oldfield explains how he runs his farm.

Western Australian contract free range pig farmer, Ben Oldfield and Milnes group vet, Dr Chris Brennan explain how contract pig farming works.
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Duration: 5 minutes 57 seconds

Western Australian contract free-range pig farms gain popularity

Contract free-range pig farming gains popularity and a regular wage for Great Southern farmers.
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A group of piglets running across hay

Teen appears in court over elderly woman's assault

A 15-year-old boy has appeared in Perth Children's Court over the sexual assault of an 88-year-old woman in WA's south.
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Perth Children's court

Boy charged over sexual assault on elderly woman

A 15-year-old boy has faced the Albany Children's Court charged over a sexual attack on an 88-year-old woman in the Great Southern.
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Man charged over suspected stolen farm gear

Police have raided a property in Kendenup, in Western Australia's Great Southern, recovering a significant amount of suspected stolen farming equipment.
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Passenger dies after car hits tree

Officers from the police major crash unit are expected to arrive in Kendenup today to investigate a crash that killed one person and injured another.
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Man freed from farm machinery at Kendenup

A man in his mid 30s has been taken to hospital after his arm was trapped in a piece of machinery on a chicken farm near Mt Barker in the Great Southern.
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Power turned off to woman on life support

The Economic Regulation Authority (ERA) has told Western Power to change its ways after a contractor disconnected power to a woman on life support in her home.
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