Perth to sweat through third summer heatwave as temperatures soar into 40s this week.
Lisa Thomas and Bethany Hiatt
A WA Liberal promise to give magistrates the power to mandate drug rehabilitation has been described as ‘dangerous’ by Premier Roger Cook.
Jake Dietsch
The family of a taxi driver who died when a driver slammed head-on into his taxi in Cloverdale last week is hoping to return his body to his homeland of Ethiopia.
Bethany Hiatt
‘Roger Cook is not writing to the RBA to help Western Australians. Roger Cook is writing to the RBA to save his tired Government and his Labor mates in Canberra,’ Shadow treasurer Steve Martin said.
It comes 57 years after the town was destroyed by a powerful quake in 1968.
Lisa Thomas
Residents in one state have been warned to bunker down as tropical cyclone Sean sweeps over the region, bringing blistering winds and heavy rain.
Alexandra Feiam
WA commuters will only have to pay one flat fare across the entire public transport network under a new cost-of-living sweetener pitched by Labor ahead of the State Election.
WA councils have been asked to sign a gag order in exchange for vital biosecurity information to fight the invasive polyphagous shot-hole borer.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Cooling centres in the US and Europe usually have bathrooms, chairs, beds, charging devices, food, and entertainment like books and TV. They can also have kennels and pet food.
A Perth man who exchanged ‘truly horrendous’ images of children being abused has copped a three-year jail term, with the judge expressing horror at the revolting nature of the material.
Rebecca Le May
The Health Services Union of WA has accused the State Government of only being interested in listening to workers ‘when it’s politically convenient’.
Hannah Cross
The cyclone is set to intensify to a category 3 by Monday.
Rebecca Le May and Taylor Renouf
One of the major infrastructure projects set to be funded is a $20m redevelopment of the Willetton Sports and Community Centre.
Joe Spagnolo
One of Perth’s oldest community football clubs has missed out on funding to spare teenage girls from having to share changerooms, as Roger Cook pledged $30 million towards women’s sport elsewhere.
Jessica Page and Oliver Lane
Demand for a coveted place in WA’s selective high schools is so competitive that some parents are signing their kids up for tutoring as young as eight years old.
WA Digger Leslie Prior’s family carefully kept every scrap of information possible about his time as a POW. But there is not much.
Malcolm Quekett
The anti-additive movement is taking on everyday staples in pantries and fridges across the country and changing the way Australians shop and eat.
Rhianna Mitchell
Shane Descleves-Montgomery knows just how tough it is to make it through the selection process for a gifted and talented program in a WA public school.
A Perth man has been charged after he allegedly sent four ‘threatening and harassing’ emails to a Federal politician after police searched his phone.
Caleb Runciman
A police officer has narrowly avoided serious burns after a man ‘acting erratically’ set fire to a jerry can full of petrol during a chase near Royal Perth Hospital.
A tropical cyclone is predicted to form off WA’s North West coast at the weekend, with coastal and island communities warned to prepare for damaging winds and minor flooding.
A man shot in the hand by police in Perth’s north after allegedly pointing a gel blaster at them remains under guard in hospital and is still unable to appear in court.
Justin Bianchini
In its annual ranking, UK broadcaster BBC has named WA the 8th best place in the world to visit.
A young boy is still fighting for his life after an old parking meter fell on him at a museum in Bunbury on Wednesday.
Claire Sadler and Oliver Lane
