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WA cops hunt for 180 stolen guns amid gang fears

Police have vowed to hunt down dozens of firearms stolen from a Perth gun store last year, amid revelations organised criminals are willing to pay up to $35,000 for black market handguns.

Phil Hickey

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analysis
Claremont trialPremium
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How a 20-year wait for answers could finally end

This week, one of WA most enduring mysteries could end — revealing an answer to the question Perth was forced to first ask in 1996 and has been returning to ever since.

Tim Clarke

protect our elderlyCommentsPremiumThug spends eight days in jail for bashing Perth dad

David Goodhall, 73, spent longer recovering from his broken jaw — and the loss of seven teeth — than the thug who bashed him spent in jail for kicking him in the face while he was lying on the ground.

Josh Zimmerman

Can you help?VideoBurglars steal 100-year-old jewellery from Perth couple

Thieves have swiped a car, cash and century-old heirloom jewellery from an elderly Alfred Cove couple while they slept less than a metre away.

Caitlyn Rintoul

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Claremont serial killingsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Enigma of the Dark: Second extract from Claremont book

The second extract from Enigma of the Dark, Tim Clarke’s must-read book on the case of the Claremont serial killer, focuses on the Macro task force and the early days of the very public investigation.

Tim Clarke

Ugly scenesMan charged after alleged Northbridge glassing

A man has been taken to hospital with a serious facial injury after he was allegedly struck on the face at a venue on Aberdeen Street about 1am.

Dramatic scenesCop collapses during tense Girrawheen arrest

Two officers have been punched and gouged — with one taken to hospital after collapsing — during a bizarre and tense arrest in Girrawheen Friday afternoon, police allege.

CrimePolice hunt attacker in fatal Vic stabbing

Police are searching for the killer of a man stabbed to death on a street corner in Melbourne's South Yarra.

Tiffanie Turnbull

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Man invokes murdered QLD family in alleged wife threat

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: ‘You and your daughter deserve to be burned alive like the Queensland family’, was one of the threats a man made against his wife before brutally raping her, prosecutors say.

Jake Dietsch

A-salt chargePremiumMan charged with ‘chicken salt’ assault on mum

A chicken salt container will be at the centre of a legal argument as a Kalgoorlie-Boulder man denies he assaulted his mother with the popular condiment.

Taylar Amonini

CrimeTrump offered to pardon Assange: lawyer

President Donald Trump offered to pardon Julian Assange if he revealed the source of the hacked Democratic National Committee emails in 2016, his lawyer says.

Quarantine breachPremiumSecond ankle bracelet fitted to WA COVID breacher

A Secret Harbour man who allegedly breached hotel quarantine by inviting women to his room and going to a party has become the second person in WA to be fitted with a COVID monitoring device.

Sarah Steger

‘Idiot abroad’PremiumFrench backpacker jailed after drug order to WA hostel

An ‘idiot abroad’ whose dream holiday around Australia with his girlfriend turned into a nightmare after he was caught importing party drugs in the mail to his Kununurra hostel has been jailed.

Shannon Hampton

Bowel busterPremiumMan jailed after rolling dice to ‘clear gambling debt’

A 56-year-old drug mule was picked up by authorities in WA after swallowing five heroin-filled pellets he urgently needed to 'evacuate'.

Shannon Hampton

Crisis pointCommentsPremiumViolence against women a growing ‘mountain’ to move

The Federal Government needs to commit at least $12 billion over the next 12 years to tackle the ‘undeniable crisis of violence against women and children’.

Sarah Ison

Yanchep shootingVideoPremiumShot man charged with endangering officers’ lives

The man at the centre of the Yanchep police shooting Drew Christopher Lushey — who is in a coma under guard in hospital — has been charged with endangering the lives of the officers who shot him.

Phil Hickey and Tim Clarke

Family relievedPremiumWA cop fails in bid for JC murder trial in Geraldton

An attempt by the WA Police officer charged over the shooting death of Yamatji woman JC to have his murder trial heard north of Perth has failed.

Emily Moulton

Looking slickPremiumMercanti debuts new look as lawyers argue over funeral

Prosecutors will apply to have a special hearing to determine a “discrete jurisdictional issue” linked to charges stemming from Troy Mercanti’s attendance at a bikie funeral in NSW.

Shannon Hampton

CrimeNetflix 'Cheer' star on child porn charge

The star of the Netflix documentary series Cheer has been arrested and charged with producing child pornography.

Don Babwin

Major operationPremiumPolice raid northern suburbs ‘drug den’

Police have raided a home in Perth’s northern suburbs where four people were arrested after a $12 million stash of meth was uncovered earlier this year.

Daryna Zadvirna

Pub brawlVideoMan slashed with knife outside tavern

A woman has been arrested after a man was slashed with a knife outside a northern suburbs tavern.

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Domestic violenceCommentsPremium
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Body-worn cop camera videos to convict DV abusers

Police camera footage will soon be able to be used as evidence in court to convict domestic violence offenders currently escaping punishment because their victims are being pressured not to testify.

Elise Van Aken

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opinion
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Domestic violence law reform welcome

The issue is complex and there will be further challenges. But it is heartening to know that action is under way.

guilty or not guilty?Claremont podcast: The moment of truth is upon us

Is Bradley Robert Edwards guilty or not guilty? Only one person knows what the answer to that question is, and he’s taken 12 weeks to make it. But on Thursday September 24, the world will find out.

Kate Ryan

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