After more than a century on AM, ABC Radio Perth is making the big switch to FM, in a move that will reduce interference and provide better audio for listeners. But why is the ABC making this move? 📝 by Pip Waller ABC AM services will continue in regional and remote WA areas, and the move to FM in Perth will not impact the ABC’s commitment to emergency and parliamentary broadcasting. | ABC Perth

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BREAKING: At 1.50am this morning, WA Police were alerted to a firearm being discharged towards a store on Kingfisher Avenue in Ballajura. WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch says it is believed this incident is related to the illegal tobacco trade. "Serious and Organised Crime Division have responded, the team are now actively investigating that as a series – the one earlier in the week in Maddington and a few more previous to that," Commissioner Blanch told Nadia Mitsopoulos on #ABCRadioPerth. "I

#UPDATE: The fire has since been downgraded. A bushfire emergency has broken out in suburban Perth, with a quick-moving blaze putting dozens of homes and lives at risk. The bushfire broke out just before 3pm local time in a small pocket of bushland in Ellenbrook, about 30 kilometres north-east of Perth. The area is surrounded by more than 100 houses, tightly packed in a modern residential estate. An emergency warning is in place for people in an area bounded by The Broadway, Galatea Pass, Farman