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
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.
Leading Pinjarra trainer Brett Pope is expected to appeal what he says is an ‘excessive’ sanction for an administrative error after the euthanasia of 15 horses.
Hayden King
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.
Mitchell Woodcock
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.
Tens of thousands of West Australians have gathered to honour the courage and sacrifice of the Anzacs at a moving dawn service at Kings Park on Thursday morning.
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.
Carwyn Monck
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.
Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis announced an $8.6 million drought-assistance package, but farmers are concerned that will only ‘touch the edges’.
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
A shopping centre was thrown into panic when a teen allegedly ran past brandishing a knife.
News Corp Australia
Alarming data shows St John WA attended a record number of serious e-scooter crashes last year, with callouts skyrocketing by more than 60 per cent.
Caleb Runciman
Police are hunting at least one man after two sexual incidents involving children in Perth’s southern suburbs.
A man accused of spraying shoppers in a Northam Bunnings with a chemical substance that left ten people in hospital has faced court.
Arson detectives are still investigating a suspicious fire that has burned 12,000ha of bushland in the Walpole Wilderness Area and is expected to burn through more.
A local childcare company is offering six lucky families free childcare for a year to help with the cost-of-living crisis affecting West Aussies.