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Paywall removed for local content! We are thrilled to announce a new look, new offerings and new accessibility at WAtoday.
🔴WA News Live: Our new daily live news blog delivered alongside our @9NewsPerth colleagues, bringing you the news as it breaks in a fresh, one-stop-shop format.
🍽Lunch with Jesinta Burton: in which our respected business reporter draws out the secrets of Perth's most high-profile personalities.
💖 Three Things I Love: in which Perth agenda-setters, public figures and inspirational individuals share their local hot tips and go-tos, letting you get to know our city in a whole new way.
👨👩👧👧People of Perth: our roving reporter Mark Naglazas gets out and about on the streets and in the cafes, interviewing locals on their approaches to life, love, friendship, parenting; the things that matter to us all.
And it's all guided by our new tagline: the news you need to know, today. To see what that news is right now, visit www.watoday.com.au (link in bio).
WAtoday enters new era
We are thrilled to announce a new look and new offerings at WAtoday.
After 16 years of publishing, we're sharpening our focus to bring you more hyper-local stories that connect you to each other and champion Perth's quiet (and not-so-quiet) achievers.
Our new WA News Live blog, delivered alongside our 9 News Perth colleagues, will bring you the news as it breaks in a fresh, one-stop-shop format.
We're also launching three new series telling the stories of Perth’s people, headlined by our new Lunch with Jesinta Burton in which this respected business reporter will draw out the secrets of Perth's most successful personalities.
And all this will be free, with the paywall removed for local content.
The new marketing campaign, which you can see a sneak peek of here, highlights our mission to serve you and make you proud of your city and your state, inspired by our new tagline: news you need to know, today.
To see what that news is right now, hit up the website: www.watoday.com.au.
‘Odysseus has taken the moon’: Australia helps guide first private lunar landing
The US has achieved a historic lunar milestone with the touchdown of the Odysseus spacecraft, which marks the return of the US to the moon since the Apollo missions and the first lunar landing achieved by a private company.
The Houston company is running the mission, which marks the first lunar landing made by a private company.
Read the full report: http://tinyurl.com/ycxtjpb6
Photo: Intuitive Machines
Bibra Lake bushfire
People in Cockburn Ice Arena and Adventure World were urged to shelter in place as a fire burnt out of control in Bibra Lake, south of Perth, on Tuesday afternoon.
Details: http://tinyurl.com/ycxzzh36
Footage courtesy of 9 News Perth
People in Cockburn Ice Arena and Adventure World were urged to shelter in place as a fire burnt out of control in Bibra Lake, south of Perth, on Tuesday afternoon.
Vision courtesy of 9 News Perth
More info: http://tinyurl.com/ycxzzh36
The year in news: 2023 in review
Take a look back at some of the stories that shaped 2023 🗓️
Optus communication 'lousy': Senate estimates
Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin is defending her leadership publicly this morning after two high-profile disasters within 13 months.
Full report: https://tinyurl.com/3j4w7uxt #optus
Corrective services minister outlines Cleveland Dodd's final desperate moments
A damning internal report reveals Cleveland Dodd’s final conversations with prison staff before taking his own life.
Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia outlines what is known so far, pending the official inquest and Corruption and Crime Commission investigation.
Full report: https://tinyurl.com/44fs2xp6
📞Crisis support is available from Lifeline on 13 11 14. For 24/7 crisis support run by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, contact 13YARN (13 92 76).📞
Perth man charged over multiple Kings Park bushfires
A man in his 40s will appear in court on Friday charged with lighting five fires throughout Kings Park within the past two weeks.
Full story: https://tinyurl.com/n9rtkr2t
Back in 1999, emergency services were scouring the outback for any sign of Robert Bogucki, an Alaskan firefighter who had embarked on a Biblical journey of discovery across Western Australia’s unforgiving Great Sandy Desert.
This is the story of the American specialist rescue team flown in to track Bogucki, the camera crew who eventually spotted the dishevelled traveller from the air, and the high-tension media firestorm that raged in the aftermath.
Click the link in our bio for the latest instalment of Gary Adshead's extraordinary series, The Reporter, and the accompanying podcast from @6prperth.
Footage: @9newsperth
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On day one of a historic Chinese trade mission, Mark McGowan has unwittingly reignited a feud with Andrew Hastie after his conversation at a luncheon was picked up on a live microphone.
Read the article in our link in bio.
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Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known the world over as Pele and as “King Pele” or just “The King” in his native Brazil, has died.
The three-time World Cup winner is widely considered the greatest footballer of the 20th century, rising from poverty to become one of the best-known players of all time, scoring a world record 1281 goals in 1366 games.
With sublime skills and a winning smile, he helped make soccer the world’s most popular sport and he charmed popes, presidents and Hollywood stars in a seven-decade career as player and ambassador for the sport.
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Premier addresses the media
#LIVE: Premier Mark McGowan is addressing the media.
#9News | WATCH LIVE 6pm