A usually quiet Orelia shopping strip was shrouded in thick black smoke this morning after a car ploughed into a lash salon and erupted into flames.
Caitlin Vinci
The death toll from a blaze at a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong has risen to 94 as firefighters continue searching the smouldering buildings.
Staff Writers
Anyone in the advice area should close all doors, windows and turn off evaporative air conditioners, and keep up to date with Emergency WA warnings and instructions.
Jacki Elezovich
Residents of a Spencer Park home experienced a rude awakening on Wednesday night after a neighbour’s truck rolled across the sloping street and smashed through the lounge room wall.
Melissa Sheil
Receding floodwaters are allowing disaster teams in Thailand and Malaysia to boost aid deliveries and efforts to get people out of waterlogged homes.
Cong Sun and Huey Mun Leong
Firefighters battling a massive blaze at a Hong Kong apartment complex have been joined by dozens of animal welfare workers searching for pets amid the flames.
Jessie Pang and Joyce Zhou
A woman has been rushed to hospital after her car ploughed into a tree in Willetton on Thursday morning.
As summer draws closer and there is an increased threat of bushfires, Albany’s firefighting boss wants to make sure the Great Southern is well prepared for the inevitable reality of facing a dangerous blaze.
Police have revealed that unsafe materials might be behind a Hong Kong apartment inferno, as the blaze was brought under control and the death toll rose to 55.
Tyrone Siu, Joyce Zhou and Jessie Pang
At least four people are dead and an unknown number are trapped after a massive fire engulfed high-rise residential towers in Hong Kong.
The West Australian understands the man has sustained several serious injuries and has been trapped for several hours.
Jessica Evensen
Military helicopters are flying patients from a marooned hospital in Thailand as relief efforts ramp up after major floods killed dozens of people.
Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng
The identity of man accused of lighting a fire that destroyed a Gnowangerup home has been revealed, as he faced court the day after the alleged incident.
Hannah Whitehead and Jacki Elezovich
A new search has failed to find a missing boy on his family's remote outback farmhouse, almost two months after the four-year-old disappeared.
Robyn Wuth
Firefighters rushed to a primary school in Perth’s south early Wednesday morning after the smoke alarm went off in the performing arts room.
Bushfire season has well and truly started on the east coast and while the immediate danger has passed there are still dozens of fires out of control.
Tom Wark
A fire that completely gutted a Gnowangerup home on Tuesday has officially been deemed suspicious, with police confirming that detectives from the arson squad will be investigating the blaze
Melissa Sheil and Hannah Whitehead
Nearly a year on from a devastating bushfire that razed 11,000ha of farmland and destroyed three homes, Roe MLA Peter Rundle has lashed the State Government for failing to publicise reports regarding its cause.
Hannah Whitehead
Fire crews from Gnowangerup, Katanning, Albany, Dumbleyung, Borden, Kojonup and Katanning rushed to the scene.
Claire Middleton
Narrogin detectives are investigating a suspicious house fire in Wagin earlier this month that left the home completely destroyed.
The manager of a Thai temple says he heard knocking coming from a coffin after a woman's body was brought in for cremation.
Police in Tokyo have reportedly arrested a 37-year-old man after a stolen car was driven onto a walkway for pedestrians, killing one person.
A renewed search for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont will focus on six previously unexplored mine shafts after the boy vanished from a remote outback property.
Samantha Lock
Authorities in The Netherlands are investigating after an airport was forced to close after numerous drones were sighted in the vicinity.
