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The Latest Breaking News from Port Hedland

Australia’s northwest braces for strongest cyclone in a decade

Cyclone Ilsa is predicted to gather strength before making landfall on Western Australia’s northern coast.

Al Jazeera

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Cyclone Ilsa is expected to reach category 5 before it hits the WA coast, the highest severity level

The Guardian - AU

Category 4 Cyclone Ilsa lashes northwest Australian coast

A severe tropical cyclone is lashing the northwest Australian coast with strengthening winds and increasing rain

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Australia iron ore hub braces for strongest cyclone in a decade

Australia's northwest region, home to the world's largest iron ore export hub, braced on Thursday for the area's most powerful tropical cyclone in a decade, as a major port closed and residents rushed to stock up on essential supplies.

Reuters

‘Very destructive’: Fresh alarm as Cyclone Ilsa strengthens further

Pilbara towns have been evacuated and shops emptied as Cyclone Ilsa, now expected to become a category-five storm, bears down WA.

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The Guardian - AU

Cyclone Ilsa strengthens and turns, as impact to track inland

A severe cyclone bearing down on WA is expected to strengthen into a category-four system on Thursday as it turns and tracks towards land.

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Concern in the Pilbara as Cyclone Ilsa strengthens

Residents and workers in Western Australia's Pilbara are bracing as Tropical Cyclone Ilsa, now a category-four system, bears down on the coast.

AAP

Residents flee as cyclone approaches northwest Australia

Miners, cattle ranchers, tourists and Indigenous locals are evacuating from Australia’s remote northwest coast as an intensifying tropical cyclone approaches

The Independent UK

Cyclone Ilsa strong enough to ‘pick up a caravan’ when it makes landfall in WA on Thursday

Tropical cyclone set to strengthen to category 4, bringing gusts of 250km/h when it reaches land between Broome and Port Hedland

The Guardian - AU

North-west battens down as Cyclone Ilsa gathers strength

Worksites and communities are being evacuated as Tropical Cyclone Ilsa builds in intensity and moves towards the Western Australian coast.

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Tropical Cyclone Ilsa intensifying rapidly as it begins final approach to WA's Pilbara, Kimberley

Now at category three, the severe cyclone is expected to cross Eighty Mile Beach at category four tomorrow night, with residents urged to make their final preparations.

ABC News

Northwest battens down as Cyclone Ilsa gathers strength

Worksites and communities are being evacuated as Tropical Cyclone Ilsa gathers strength, with the storm expected to cross the coast early on Friday.

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The New Daily

Strongest cyclone in a decade to ‘smash’ WA coast

Pastoralists in northern WA fear they'll be "smashed" as authorities warn an intensifying storm is likely to become a destructive cyclone.

ABC News

Potential category four cyclone Ilsa brews off WA as BOM warns of gale-force winds, heavy rain

Warnings of gale-force winds and heavy rainfall are issued for Western Australia's north as a potential severe tropical cyclone brews off the coast.

ABC News

Marine Rescue Port Hedland needs $2.7 million to replace 117-year-old facility or it 'risks closing'

A marine rescue group in the world's largest export port is facing potential closure next year if funding is not allocated for a new facility, forcing emergency calls to be routed 1,600km south.

ABC News

BHP worker death in Port Hedland increases safety concerns, union says

The CFMMEU says the death of Port Hedland grandfather Jody Byrne highlights growing safety concerns on the ground in the Pilbara.

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Reuters

BHP halts Western Australia iron ore operations for a day after worker dies

The world's largest miner BHP Group has suspended its Western Australian iron ore operations for a day after a worker was struck by a train at its Port Hedland iron ore facility, it said on Wednesday.

ABC News

Authorities investigate death of BHP worker at rail site near Port Hedland

The mining giant has confirmed the man was struck by a locomotive at a site on the outskirts of Port Hedland last night.

AAP

BHP worker dies after being hit by train in WA's north

BHP has suspended its Western Australian iron ore operations for 24 hours after a worker was hit by a train and killed at a rail yard in Port Hedland.

ABC News

Pilbara man wins battle to be buried in hometown of more than 60 years

Port Hedland stalwart Arnold Carter has won the right for him and his wife to be interred in the town's pioneer cemetery, despite it officially being full and closed.

ABC News

Margaret Hawke pleads guilty to triple-murder of children after Port Hedland house fire

Margaret Hawke pleads guilty to three counts of murder after the bodies of her children aged 10, seven and five months were found in a house fire in WA's Pilbara.

Daily Mirror

Man fights for life after arm nearly severed while spearfishing in shark horror attack

The Royal Flying Doctor Service, who responded to the incident, said the man has suffered multiple serious injuries and his left arm was "almost severed" at the shoulder

The Guardian - AU

Shark attack: man’s left arm ‘nearly severed’ in waters off Port Hedland in WA

Man in 30s was spearfishing and had speared a fish before he was bitten, state department of primary industries says

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