A man was trying to escape police and angry family members when he drove a car with a shredded tyre while towing an SUV on the wrong side of the road in front of a road train, a court has been told.
Tegan Guthrie
The death of a 10-year-old Indigenous boy in State care was most likely an accident, but suicide can’t be ruled out completely, an inquest has been told.
Hannah Cross
Western Australia will join the fight against a High Court challenge to Australia’s social media ban after NSW and SA announced they planned to intervene in the case.
Caitlyn Rintoul
A 20-year-old man will face court this week in relation to an alleged hit-and-run that left a Mandurah teen in hospital.
Rachel Fenner
A prisoner who left a guard with a broken nose and violently attacked two others while they tried to de-escalate an argument has been handed additional jail time on top of his multi-year sentence.
Jacki Elezovich
Former defence minister Linda Reynolds has been stymied in her defamation lawsuit against Brittany Higgins, with a judge reserving his decision on whether to find Ms Reynold’s former staffer bankrupt.
Sarah Crawford
The coroner who investigated WA’s first child death in detention has described Cleveland Dodd’s case as ‘one of the saddest’ he had heard, labelling the teen’s treatment ‘inhumane’.
Rebecca Le May and Oliver Lane
A man who beat his pregnant partner with a rock and stick in front of their daughter in a drunken rage has expressed his desire to change his life for his kids.
Perth’s knife laws have failed to protect a teenager from a violent stabbing in Northbridge.
Nick Overall & Bethany Hiatt
A 33-year-old man has been charged after allegedly defacing several items of furniture at the Subi Night Markets.
Jessica Evensen
A 25-year-old man charged over the death of an older man in Geraldton — who lost his life a few days after an alleged assault — will spend Christmas and New Year behind bars on remand.
Kate Campbell
An inquest will this week examine the circumstances that led to the death of a 10-year-old Indigenous boy while he was in the care of the State Government.
New services giving tangible help to victim-survivors of sex crimes and domestic violence are getting more cash as disturbing data underpins a first-ever prevention strategy for WA.
Rebecca Le May
The Legal Practice Board of WA is under fire for being overwhelmingly male dominated — and allegedly completely ignoring a serious sexual harassment complaint.
A man lied his way into the emergency department at Kalgoorlie Health Campus and stole from vulnerable patients, including one who was under the effects of anaesthesia.
A Perth man has been charged with possessing violent extremism material following a police investigation involving Australia’s spy agency.
Caleb Runciman
A failed crypto-trader found guilty of killing his mother in her Bicton home for $1.15 million in life insurance has a new bombshell theory on how she died.
A Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital sleep scientist — who accessed intimate footage of his female patients undressing because he was ‘addicted to pornography’ — has been put behind bars.
The former Balcatta Senior High School student — known as The Kid — has been living at large in the notorious South American country since 2019.
Shannon Hampton
He ripped millions of dollars off family and life-long friends in their tight-knit South West Italian community.
The little boy was found ‘distraught and crying’.
A former prolific Geraldton tennis coach will fight allegations at trial that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl and supplied children with alcohol.
Both men accused of raping a woman on the Geraldton foreshore earlier this year are set to stand trial after the second man pleaded not guilty this week.
A man who made death threat against a WA judge presiding over his wife’s bizarre child abuse case has narrowly avoided a term of imprisonment.
