Local Defence personnel, veterans and families have gathered in Port Kennedy to start the consultation process of a new Veterans’ and Families’ Hub promised by the Albanese Government.
Telissa Ryder
Hannah Cross
A man in Perth’s southern suburbs has been fined after threatening police and not co-operating after being issued a police order.
Tyra Peters
A 37-year-old man has pleaded guilty to a drunken assault on his partner in Perth’s south.
A 19-year-old woman has been convicted of assault after punching a woman six times in the head at Rockingham train station.
Three new artworks now adorn walls, sidewalks and windows in the City of Kwinana to promote positive mental health messages.
Warnbro resident Jordon De Jong is one of Alcoa’s latest recruits selected to participate in a year-long operations traineeship at the company’s alumina refineries in Kwinana, Pinjarra and Wagerup.
Community members are invited to come and enjoy the City of Rockingham’s Australia Day celebration at Churchill Park on the Rockingham Foreshore on Thursday 26 January.
The Rockingham Arts Centre has welcomed the work of emerging Perth creative Heritier Kasanda at his debut solo exhibition.
Volunteer firefighters from Kwinana’s bushfire brigade have rescued a joey from a blaze in Perth’s southwest.
A Rockingham man has been warned by a magistrate about his “appalling behavior” after an altercation with his former partner.
A 23-year-old man in Perth’s south who used a knife to scare a resident has received a fine and been warned by a magistrate that things could have “quickly gone wrong”.
A 15-year-old boy has been given community service after stealing two motorcycles on two separate occasions in Perth’s southern suburbs.
Is WA’s youth justice system taking traumatised, troubled child offenders and making them worse? The West goes inside Perth Children’s Court.
Sarah Steger
Australia may not have the same scale of gun violence as in the US, but the Lucky Country still has a bloody history of shootings and chilling massacres.
Blake Antrobus
The comedy superstar was forced to stop halfway through his set at RAC Arena on Thursday night after a wild brawl broke out between ‘bogans’ in the crowd.
Peter Devlin
Holed up in his Colombian hideaway some 16,000 kilometres away from Perth, alleged drug kingpin Arash Ebrahimi Far cannot wait to brag to his girlfriend about his latest exploits.
Emily Moulton
The first fatal shark attack in the Swan River in 100 years will prompt the government to urgently look at potential mitigation measures — but if the killer shark is found, it won’t be destroyed.
Steve Butler and Tim Clarke
The Federal Government is believed to have made a formal bid to give the Burrup Peninsula UNESCO World Heritage status, potentially casting a shadow on billions of dollars worth of resources projects.
WA gun owners will have to pass a mandatory mental health assessment to legally obtain and keep a firearm licence in a major Australian-first initiative aimed at saving lives.
The identity of the teenage girl tragically mauled to death by a shark in the Swan River has been confirmed as 16-year-old Stella Berry.
UPDATE: Flowers have been laid for a teenage girl who died after she was mauled by a shark in the Swan River at North Fremantle.
An earthquake has struck a WA town early Sunday morning.
Caleb Runciman
The owners of Geraldton’s chain of IGA stores say they have been left with no choice but to restrict entry to unsupervised children after 6pm in a bid to combat rising shoplifting and staff abuse.
Jessica Moroney
Kalgoorlie MP Ali Kent has expressed her concern about the current water crisis in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, which will see a reduced supply to community greenspaces.
Another serious shortage is gripping Kalgoorlie-Boulder — some pubs and cafes have run out of chips.
Police have identified a suspect they allege attempted to break open a cigarette machine inside the Wintersun Hotel and then stole two bottles of whiskey in an early morning burglary.
THE ECONOMIST: For Mark Zuckerberg, the first three quarters of last year were rough. In July 2022 his social-media empire, Meta, announced its first ever year-on-year decline in quarterly revenues.
Amazon on Thursday issued first-quarter guidance that came in light of estimates, overshadowing better-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter.
Annie Palmer
Alphabet missed on both top and bottom lines when it reported fourth quarter earnings after the bell Thursday.
Jennifer Elias
The Bank of England on Thursday hiked interest rates by 50 basis points and dialed back some of its previous bleak economic forecasts.
Elliot Smith
The State School Teachers Union will kick off regional consultation of its inquiry into the state of WA’s public education system this week.
Bethany Hiatt
Detectives are investigating the sudden death of a man outside a brothel in East Perth.
Phil Hickey and Brianna Dugan
Water-based patrols at the site of Saturday’s fatal shark attack in Fremantle will not be continuing on Monday, as the decision to close the beach where the attack occurred is reviewed.
The Department of Fire and Emergency Services has quashed claims it doesn’t have the resources to handle the dangers of a hot summer after blazes raged across the State at the weekend.
The graveyard of building firms, including some of the biggest names in construction, keeps getting bigger. Here’s what needs to happen to save the industry in WA.
Long waits at public hospital EDs and blowouts to elective surgery waiting lists have been blamed for a flood of West Australians rushing to take out private health cover since the start of the COVID pandemic.
Josh Zimmerman
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