A Perth man on holiday in Tasmania stabbed his partner before fleeing the scene and causing a fiery head-on crash that claimed both his life and that of a local nurse who was driving home from work on Friday.
Caleb Runciman
A former West Coast WAFL player is facing a lengthy suspension after a coward-punching an opponent in an ‘ugly’ off-the-ball incident that marred a Lower South West Football League game on Sunday.
Jack Penniment and Amy Towers
A businessman embroiled in a long-running defamation lawsuit has admitted to covertly recording a business meeting because he feared being ‘set up’ over an alleged backdoor land deal.
Hannah Cross
Rapper and YouTuber Yung Filly has taken the stand at his trial, where he is accused of sexually assaulting a fan on his Australian tour, telling a court he assumed the sex was consensual.
Emma Kirk
Two WA gold takeovers worth a combined $5.3 billion ranked among Australia’s 10 biggest deals in the last financial year, even as national dealmaking fell 17 per cent.
Ryan Johnson
The pressure has intensified as the US-Iran war disrupts oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and Houthi attacks threaten Saudi oil exports through the Red Sea.
Perth woke to a wet Sunday but the rain won’t stick around, with a week of sunshine and climbing temperatures on the way.
Michael Wilson
The Perth doctor who joined Islamic State 10 years ago and was recently discovered alive in a Baghdad prison had close ties with a key leader of the terrorist group in Syria who remains on the run.
Rhianna Mitchell
A 28-year-old woman has been charged after allegedly unleashing a chaotic trail of destruction during a wild SUV rampage through Perth’s northern suburbs.
Charlton Hart
The weekend’s devastation brings the year-to-date road toll to 127 deaths, and marks the most deadly 7-month period on the state’s roads in at least a decade.
Brooke Rolfe
A man allegedly fled police before slamming head-on into another vehicle, killing a 30-year-old woman in a horror crash that shut down one of Perth’s busiest highways.
Troy de Ruyter
The trail of carnage stretched more than 200 metres.
Sam Haberland
From Gerard Ross to the Claremont Murders: Sen. Const. Kerrie ‘Trigger’ Trigwell reveals just how much the WA Police force has changed since she started as she commemorates her incredible career.
Professor Jessica Dempsey was among the first astronomers to produce an image of a black hole and will now oversee Australia’s largest science project, anticipated to unravel the universe’s biggest mysteries.
Ben O'Shea
A horror 24-hours on WA roads has resulted in five people being killed across four separate crashes, with the State heading towards its worst road toll since 2008.
Kirsty Lichtenstein
Physical scars left by burns are often obvious to see. But long-term physiological impact can fester for years, something a new WA study led by acclaimed researcher Professor Fiona Wood hopes to change.
Claire Sadler
New figures show anyone who bought a property using the Commonwealth’s low deposit scheme could end up with the bleak prospect of negative equity as WA’s red-hot market cools.
Joe Spagnolo
The West Australian can reveal Defence initially referred the matter to the National Anti-Corruption Commission and sources claim the agency instead referred it back to the Department for possible prosecution.
Andrew Greene
A 30-year-old woman has been identified as the victim of a fiery crash on Tonkin Highway on Friday night, as she and her husband were travelling home from church.
Katherine Kraayvanger
Check your tickets! The pockets of no less than THREE lucky West Aussies are more than $2.22 million heavier thanks to Saturday evening’s Lotto draw.
‘On the nose’: Anthony Albanese will be in WA this week, but he won’t be heading to Secret Harbour where Labor is in the fight of its life against One Nation.
Police are investigating after a child was filmed riding unrestrained in the tray of a moving ute in Perth’s southern suburbs.
Kirsty Lichtenstein and Caleb Runciman
Horrific allegations about British rapper Yung Filly violently biting, hitting and raping a young woman on his 2024 Australian tour have been revealed in court.
The WA Liberal Party has ended weeks of speculation by preferencing One Nation ahead of Labor in the Secret Harbour by-election.
