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Forget the holiday home in the dunes: FIFO workers and those who work from home are among those thinking they might as well make their sea change permanent.

Forget the holiday home in the dunes: FIFO workers and those who work from home are among those thinking they might as well make their sea change permanent.

Advertisement The Department of Fire and Emergency Services says hot, dry and windy conditions over the next two days will test containment lines as crews continue to battle a fire that has been burning north of Perth for almost a week. The potential for the fire to escalate rapidly means warning areas could change at short notice, the department said, and residents were urged to check the Emergency WA website regularly for updates. Strong easterly winds are set to hamper efforts to control a f...

Friday afternoon last big test as Gingin fires expected to burn for days We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Friday afternoon last big test as Gingin fires expected to burn for days Normal text size Advertisement A bushfire that has been burning for six days already north of Perth is likely to burn for another five days with Friday afternoon to be the “last big test”, the incident controller has said. The Department of Fire and Emergency Ser...

Western Australia Fire Crews to Battle Hot Dry Weather Firefighters have managed to slow the spread of a dangerous bushfire burning north of Perth. Still, authorities fear the upcoming extreme weather conditions will impede efforts to bring it under control. The Red Gully blaze which has been burning since Saturday Jan. 2 now has a perimeter of more than 100 kilometres and destroyed over 9500 hectares in the Gingin and Dandaragan shires. An emergency warning remains for local communities around...

Expiring in the first nine or ten. the speaker has made a pledge point our conference to bring up a measure defunning the presidents executive action sometime before the end of the dhs bug which expires in february. we now have a senate that can approve the same bill well put it on the presidents test and let him test the veto pin -- pen and the american people can judge. >> happy new year. >> good to see you. happy new year. >> says sorry, congressman, good luck on getting the president to budg...

investigation of rupert murdochs media empire as the company pays a new price for its phone hacking scandal. could a massive probe now under way in britain happen here in the united states? and the obama money-maybing machine. whos behind the cash and can the republicans compete? president obama and the congressional leadership are under enormous pressure right now, about 40 minutes into their latest round of debt crisis talks. they haveless than three weeks until the deadline to rai...