Good morning and welcome to our live news blog for this Tuesday, May 19.
Making headlines today, widespread outages across Perth’s road network have been linked to stolen copper cables taken from street and shared path lighting, with the total length of cable stolen over the past eight years able to stretch from Perth to Exmouth.
Main Roads has revealed that 1200 kilometres of copper cable had been stolen from their electrical pit and conduit system since 2019.
Meanwhile, a surge in short-term accommodation such as Airbnbs has left some West Australian towns and suburbs without a rental in sight.
