Updated May 22, 2026 — 10:45am,first published May 22, 2026 — 9:43am10.45amMagnitude 3.4 earthquake shakes Kalgoorlie awakeBy It’s not just explosions from the super pit causing a raucous for residents in Kalgoorlie.They were shaken awake around 5.30am this morning by a magnitude 3.4 earthquake, which originated in the suburb of Karlkurla near the local golf course. More than 400 people have since reported that they felt the shockwaves to Geoscience Australia, and residents also took to Facebook, saying the earthquake had shaken their homes. It was reportedly six kilometres deep. A smaller earthquake was also recorded on Thursday evening – a magnitude 2.5, just north-west of where this morning’s earthquake occurred. On May 17, a 1.2 magnitude earthquake was also recorded near the super pit. 10.20amPerth is building fewer apartments now than 40 years ago. Experts say that’s unsustainableBy Fewer apartments are being built in Perth compared to 40 years ago, new data shows, with the metropolitan area sprawling out instead of up. In the 80s, one fifth of new builds were apartments or units, but now we are delivering just half that number despite the population doubling.High density dwellings make up just 12 per cent of new buildsExperts have said services are struggling to keep up. 9.43amElderly woman dies in crash near rural WA townBy An 85-year-old woman has died in a car crash in a rural town near York, around 116 kilometres east of Perth on Thursday afternoon. About 3.10pm, a silver Ford Fairlane sedan was travelling east along Quairading York Road when, in Beverley East, it left the road and struck a tree.The driver and sole occupant, an 85-year-old woman, sustained critical injuries in the crash and died at the scene.Major Crash investigators are urging anyone who saw the crash, or the silver Ford Fairlane sedan travelling in the area before the crash, to contact Crime Stoppers.9.34amAcross the nation and around the worldBy Here’s what’s making headlines today:Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is open to changes on a proposal to tax trusts that the Coalition has described as a “death tax”, according to government sources, though Labor will overlook a business outcry and push ahead with its remodelling of the capital gains tax.Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a post-budget TV interview last week.Dominic LorrimerClaims the government’s new tax regime will see it take nearly half of all profits made by small businesses have been rubbished by tax experts, with the amounts paid likely to be far lower.The remaining seven women and 14 children linked to Islamic State have left the al-Roj camp in Syria and are on their way back to Australia.An Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Democratic Republic of the Congo boarded a flight in Paris “in error” amid flight restrictions tied to the Ebola outbreak, US Customs and Border Protection has said.A French appeals court found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over the Rio-Paris plane crash, but a 17-year legal battle over the country’s worst aviation disaster is set to continue.9.34amToday’s weatherBy 9.34amGood morning WABy Good morning all and welcome to the last live blog for the week. Making headlines, a Perth real estate agency has cited the unfolding fuel crisis as a reason for requesting tenants conduct their own property inspections, in what Western Australia’s consumer watchdog has flagged as a potential breach of consumer law.Davey Real Estate wrote to tenants last month advising them they would need to conduct their own routine inspections. Read more here. The email sent to tenants.1 of 1