Alice Angeloni
Geraldton, WA
Alice Angeloni is a reporter at ABC Midwest and Wheatbelt, based out of the Geraldton bureau. She spent three years working in newsrooms around New Zealand before returning home to Western Australia in late 2022.
You can follow her on Twitter at @aliceangeloni
Latest by Alice Angeloni
Country drivers warned to slow down after horror weekend on WA roads
Four people have died in crashes across the state at the weekend with the spike highlighting alarming trends on regional roads.
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'No empathy': Indigenous leaders seek greater cultural understanding from police amid fatal shooting inquest
Aboriginal leaders in Geraldton are calling for cultural change within WA Police following a week of coronial hearings into the fatal shooting of a First Nations woman in the Midwest.
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Police officer who fatally shot Indigenous woman rejects assertions he breached police policy four times, inquest hears
By Piper Duffy and Alice Angeloni
Giving evidence on the fourth day of a coronial inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman in WA's Mid West, Senior Constable Brent Wyndham says everything he did on the night she died "was right".
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Officer failed to negotiate with Indigenous woman JC before fatally shooting her in Geraldton, inquest hears
By Alice Angeloni and Piper Duffy
A coronial inquiry has heard police internal affairs found an officer failed four times to follow the WA Police use of force policy when shooting an armed Indigenous woman in the Mid West city of Geraldton in 2019.
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Cultural, mental health training unlikely to have prevented fatal shooting of Aboriginal woman, inquiry told
By Piper Duffy, Alice Angeloni, and Rebecca Trigger
A policewoman who saw a fellow officer fatally shoot an Aboriginal woman with known mental health issues tells a coronial inquiry additional training was unlikely to have prevented the victim's death.
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Family of WA woman shot dead by police anxious for answers ahead of inquest
Five years after a 29-year-old Yamatji woman was shot dead on a suburban street in regional WA, her family want the officer who pulled the trigger moved to a different beat.
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Six-day Telstra mobile outage leaves residents in country WA at boiling point
Residents of Dongara and Port Denison have been without phone coverage since blackouts last Friday, accusing the telco of leaving the community in the dark about repair efforts.
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Teenagers arrested after allegedly kicking elderly woman during retirement village home invasion
CCTV played to a children's court showed an 86-year-old woman allegedly being kicked after she confronted teenagers who were stealing her car.
Tractor is dressed in sheep's clothing as intersection of agriculture and art probed in WA
Tina Stefanou and the Carnamah community spent nine days sewing the outfit for the John Deere tractor, which formed the centrepiece of an interactive artwork in the farming town.
19yo woman dies after alleged hit and run north of Perth
WA police say the teenager was standing next to a van parked on the side of the road early Sunday morning when she was hit by a vehicle.
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Watchdog finds helicopter broke apart mid-air before crashing at Cowcowing Lakes
Two men taking part in a social flying event were killed in October 2022 when the Robinson R22 crashed near Koorda in WA's Wheatbelt, six minutes after taking off.
Man faces court over alleged indecent assault after WA Premier's press conference
Julian Brian Little faced the Geraldton Magistrates Court today charged with indecent assault over the incident after a press conference by WA Premier Roger Cook.
Poverty blamed as regional police lock-up filled with children after alleged crime spree
A community leader says youth crime will not improve until the impacts of generations of damaging government policy are addressed, after police take a group of children into custody.
Seven children, teens held in custody overnight after alleged four-day crime spree in regional WA
A group of juveniles between the ages of 10 and 17 have faced court on 18 charges in total, including the alleged theft of three cars.
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It looks like paradise but this island's past continues to trouble its community
While the Cocos (Keeling) Islands are about to mark the 40th anniversary of a vote to integrate with Australia, longstanding issues of inequality make the milestone far from celebratory.
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Flattened by Tropical Cyclone Seroja three years ago, this West Australian town is still recovering
As a residential rebuild nears completion, residents in Kalbarri say their recovery from Tropical Cyclone Seroja is ongoing, with many remaining "shaken up" by the disaster.
WA Nationals put Liberal heartland seats in the crosshairs after talks collapse
By Rebecca Trigger and Alice Angeloni
Nationals leader Shane Love says the door has closed on their legacy alliance with WA Liberals, as the country party takes a crack at city seats.
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No coffees out, no beers at the pub — could you go a month without non-essentials?
They're calling it Penniless March, a challenge by a WA group to not only save cash in a cost-of-living crisis but consider more closely what a financial therapist calls a "total culture of spending".
Law firm lodges human rights complaint over removal of Indigenous children
First Nations woman Lisa* was removed from her family when she was six. She relived the trauma when her six-week-old daughter was taken from her. She wants the cycle to stop.
Prospectors found dead in WA’s hot and remote outback
Police say a father and son have died while prospecting on a remote station in WA's Murchison region.
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Woman with extreme fear of snakes says bite felt like being stabbed with a 'hot fork'
Vanessa Rennie's worst nightmare became reality last week, but little did she know there was more terror to come.
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Full-scale search for father and son prospectors underway in WA
A campsite believed to have been being used by the men was discovered in the Murchison region on the weekend.
It has taken Chocka 84 years to get to his 21st birthday and he's looked forward to celebrating it
Born on February 29, 1940, this retired crayfisherman only gets to celebrate his birthday once every four years. But he's not crabby about it.
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Female prisoners to be relocated as male inmate numbers surge at regional WA prison
A "seasonal rise" in male prisoner numbers has prompted the relocation of 27 women from a Greenough penitentiary in what the state's justice department says is business as usual.
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West Australians fume as request for rescue helicopter rejected
A group lobbying for an emergency rescue helicopter to be based in Geraldton is unhappy at the West Australian government's rejection of the bid.
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