The price tag to rehabilitate Alcoa of Australia’s mines, manufacturing plants and residue sites has surpassed $1.1 billion amid a hot debate about the company’s remediation program.
Matt Mckenzie
Emily Moulton
Wayne Bradbury was out for an afternoon snorkel when he saw a flash of bright colour in the usually pristine sands off Shoalwater but it wasn’t a brightly coloured fish....
Rachel Fenner
A 20-year-old woman from Orelia who bit an elderly good Samaritan three times to the face during a brutal attack has had her conviction wiped.
A Rockingham dad with a blood alcohol concentration more than three times the legal limit fled the scene of an accident with his 12-year-old son in the car.
A dead raven, suspended galah and a kookaburra staring through rotted eyes are just some of the confronting photographs taken by photojournalist Craig Duncan.
A train-obsessed five-year-old was one of the first West Aussies lucky enough to travel on the new C-trains which begin service this week.
Signs with the warning “This water may cause ill effects to humans and animals. No direct water contact activities” were placed at the beach entrances.
A 28-year-old alcoholic will spend the next nine months in prison after assaulting two good Samaritans who found him passed out on the side of the road.
A white plastic container of human ashes left on a bus in Perth’s southern suburbs has sparked a search for the family of the deceased.
A Baldivis mum of four has labelled thieves ‘scum’ after the theft of her 11-year-old’s mobility scooter.
Would you take in a homeless person and set them up in your spare room? Not many would say yes, but Myrtle Jones isn’t just anyone.
Children at a Leda daycare centre have somewhere new to play thanks to youths taking part in a mentoring program aimed at reducing recidivism.
Laura Pond
A WA father and son who were recruited to take part in one of the biggest heroin smuggling operations in WA history tried to fool police by feeding them a story about their involvement in a bid to avoid arrest.
Fremantle ruckman Sean Darcy plays his 100th game in Saturday night’s Optus Stadium clash with the Western Bulldogs. So ahead of his milestone night, The West Australian has ranked all 99 of them.
Jackson Barrett
Anglo American has told BHP it needs to fork out more if it wants the British mining giant’s prized copper mines.
Adrian Rauso
The massive gold operation that claimed its second life in the space of 18 months — and WA’s first mine site death of 2024 — has fallen foul of the safety regulator 10 times in the past two years.
They aren’t members of an outlaw motorcycle gang but they ride through the streets like they own them. A group of youths accused of terrorising the northern suburbs are back.
Caleb Runciman
The luxury mansion approved by the local shire for Perth inventor Mataki Lim would be the most expensive building in WA.
Sean Smith
West Coast coach Adam Simpson says he hopes his flying midfield can maintain its dominant clearance form without teenage star Harley Reid.
A woman has been taken to hospital after a reported chemical spill east of Perth.
People in the southern part of Walpole Wilderness Area have been told to flee as an out of control bushfire, believed to be deliberately lit, threatens lives and homes about 50km west of Denmark.
Meat and Livestock Australia’s BeefUp forum is coming to the Pilbara later this month, with a jam-packed two-day program at Newman and Roy Hill.
Adam Poulsen
The multimillion-dollar project to bring more industrial lots to Kalgoorlie-Boulder has reinvigorated the case for building a transport facility and rerouting freight trains, the city’s mayor says.
Anneke de Boer
Goldfields locals are being encouraged to stop walking past their local history and heritage and instead pop their heads in to learn more about their region
Tegan Guthrie
A group of aviators has reconstructed a photograph captured in the Goldfields more than 60 years ago.
Racking up 50 years service on the police force is no regular feat, but for newly promoted Sgt Karl Rep, it is something he was determined to achieve.
Two new childcare development proposals were given the green light at this week’s Kalgoorlie-Boulder council meeting, offering more than 100 additional day care spots to help meet demand in the community.
Jenny Woo makes $142,000 a month from Amazon alone, now she’s revealed what not to do when embarking on a side hustle.
Jenny Woo
The French town of Saint-Amand-Montrond is selling a 77sqm for €1. It’s a two-level house with two bedrooms and one and a half bathrooms ... but there’s a catch.
Celia Fernandez
Tesla kicks off tech earnings with its stock at its lowest point since early 2023. Meta, Apple and Microsoft report later this week and each company faces its own set of concerns.
Hayden Field
The cities that perform well on the list have also developed initiatives that cater to their citizens’ overall quality of life. And one Australian city came in third!
Ernestine Siu
Opposition to an offshore wind firm off the Bunbury coast is intensifying with commercial fishers warning of a ‘dramatic impact’ to the industry if the proposal gets the green light.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Last week, Premier Roger Cook announced historic reforms to the process for trans people to have their gender recognised in WA, most notably abolishing the gender reassignment board.
Misty Farquhar, Nat Latter & Thomas Drake-Brockman.
Tens of thousands of critical health workers could go on strike if their union’s pay and conditions demands are not met.
A batch of much-needed rain is set to slightly replenish some of WA’s dams as water supplies dwindle in parts of the State.
The State Government will reopen WA’s two best-known tree climbs and extend a showcase cycling trail as part of a $165 million Budget commitment to upgrade the adventure tourism sector.
Perth locals are urged to keep an eye out for Moon the dolphin as an environmental conservation group raises grave concerns for her health.
Ella Loneragan