A two-year-old child was rushed to hospital after being hit by a ute during a shocking 12-hour period on Perth roads.
Caleb Runciman and Caitlin Vinci
A dramatic police chase through Perth ended in a crash and a foot pursuit, with unexpected help from a nearby bucks party as officers moved in to make an arrest.
Andrew Hedgman
An alleged stolen car chase ended dramatically when a bucks party guest stepped in to help police apprehend the driver.
Police pulled an injured driver from a burning car after his vehicle smashed into a tree in the early hours of Monday.
Caleb Runciman
Western Australians look to have made the most of the Reserve Bank’s inflation wrangling mission and cranked up their holiday bookings, with new data revealing a substantial boost in travel spending.
Simone Grogan
The number of WA children living in poverty has more than doubled in the past decade, a new report reveals.
Bethany Hiatt
For 40 years, Dean Alston, The West’s cartoonist has delighted editors and readers alike. Even the people he has skewered seem to love him.
Ben Harvey
School leavers are shunning the University of Western Australia because of perceptions it is ‘elitist, aloof and standoffish,’ its own brand research has revealed.
An old southern suburbs power station has gone off with a bang, with authorities using ‘small explosive charges’ to safely detonate an old boiler.
Jessica Evensen
Western Australia’s Aboriginal tourism ‘father’ has died aged 92. WARNING: Contains the name and images of a deceased Aboriginal person.
There’s nothing like it in WA, and on Sunday, the weather, the fillies and the fashionistas dialled it up to 100 to celebrate the revitalised Channel 7 Beach Cup.
Rachel Fenner
Threat levels have been downgraded for an out-of-control bushfire in the Shire of Collie.
A man who allegedly drove a stolen car on the wrong side of the road while leading police on a chase through Perth’s southern suburbs before crashing into a parked car has been charged with reckless driving.
A popular children’s toy sold across Kmart and Target stores has been urgently recalled over fears of a deadly contamination.
Blake Antrobus
Local shipbuilder Austal is at the centre of a growing diplomatic storm as Tokyo privately lodges formal concerns over a South Korean bid to take over the WA-based company.
Andrew Greene
After selling Bib & Tucker following 13 years at the helm, the shores of Leighton weren’t where the popular chef thought he’d find himself again. Then an unmissable opportunity came along.
Jade Jurewicz
A state-of-the-art mobile clinic is heading to remote WA, including the Pilbara and Kimberley, to deliver life-saving lung cancer screenings.
Charlton Hart
Moves to tackle ‘inappropriate conduct’ by dentists amid an explosion in Australians emptying their superannuation accounts to pay for expensive procedures will likely backfire, a top surgeon has warned.
John Flint
New regulations that could impact fishing and boating around Garden Island sharpened anti-AUKUS criticisms, but Resource Minister Madeleine King slammed the claims, declaring the island open to the public.
An undercover officer posing as a divorced woman while investigating a child abuse case led detectives to a bizarre arrest in which a man tried to escape police by jumping into the ocean near Rockingham.
Prominent members of Perth’s LGBTQIA+ community have called out ‘vile’ and ‘putrid’ abuse they are exposed to daily amid rising homophobia that has people increasingly on edge.
Caitlin Vinci
Female prisoners in Canning Vale have been distributed sexually explicit colouring-in activities by sympathetic guards.
Visiting the world’s biggest open-cut iron ore mine to watch explosions, clamber on giant trucks and see robots in action beats sitting in a classroom any day.
Despite nearly 20,000 skydiving jumps between them, the three-man crew of Perth Skydiving Display Team still say they’ll feel the pressure to perform when they wow the crowd for the WA Day festival.
Oliver Lane
