Briana Shepherd

Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas announces he will be seeking WA Liberal Party preselection in Churchlands, as party leader Libby Mettam welcomes the "high-quality candidate". 

A group of deaf and hard-of-hearing Coldplay fans say they were let down at the band's Perth show, having paid $220 for what they believed was an Auslan accessible ticket that included a number of services which were late or never provided.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters set up picket lines at Fremantle Port in an effort to prevent workers from loading a ship owned by an Israeli company.

Fire crews are into their third day battling a large bushfire in Perth's north-east, with better conditions overnight offering some respite for residents and authorities — but a forecast wind change is causing concerns.

John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart appear in WA's Supreme Court together for the second day as they continue their very public legal feud with their mother over mining royalties they claim their grandfather left for them.

Major construction work across Perth's south-east rail and road networks begins to upgrade and extend the Armadale/Thornlie train line, with the disruption to last up to 18 months. Here's what you need to know.

Leaders in charge of Australia's response to climate change have told an energy summit the country can have "an even bigger impact" by helping the rest of the world decarbonise, as school students around the country fronted up for climate rallies.

A man who apparently fell into a narrow space between two buildings is rescued by a large team of firefighters in central Perth. 

Staff at the notorious Unit 18 juvenile wing inside Perth's Casuarina maximum-security adult prison were watching movies or resting the night 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd was found unresponsive. WARNING: The story contains details of self-harm.

The program allows some tenants in private rentals to access a one-off support payment to cover rental arrears, and in some cases it will assist with a 50 per cent rental co-payment of up to three months.

Nadene Dodd, the mother of Cleveland Dodd — the first teenager to die in WA's youth detention system since records began — speaks for the first time since he took his own life, saying authorities "never helped him".

Senior judge Hylton Quail once again takes aim at a controversial youth detention unit in WA's Casuarina Prison as he sentences a 15-year-old boy, saying the conditions inside are "worse than any adult prison".

WA's Corruption and Crime Commission is investigating an allegation of serious misconduct following a teenager's death a week after he was found unresponsive inside his cell at a problem-plagued prison unit.

Since 2000, the percentage of Indigenous Australians in prison has risen at eight times the rate of that of non-Indigenous Australians. There are hopes a Voice to Parliament will help reverse that trend.

A man dies in hospital after being shot by police during a confrontation in an alleyway in WA's Goldfields

Raymond John O'Brien, 60, was jailed for five years over the December 2022 fire that caused more than $1 million damage.

A coronial inquest into the suicide of a young WA Police officer explores why he was able to access his police firearm at home. 

Amateur female players call out derogatory and sexist online commentary after the Perth Football League A-grade grand final, saying "older men" are to blame for "disgusting" behaviour.

A parliamentary inquiry hears Timothy Costelloe reject claims he is being "insensitive or unresponsive" as the church faces accusations it is intentionally slowing down justice for survivors of child sex abuse. 

The WA Supreme Court hears Bianca Rinehart labelled her brother 'idiot John' in an email forwarded to her mother which contained details of John's attempts to have her removed from the family trust. 

The business partnership between Lang Hancock and Peter Wright created billions – but the fractured relationship between the men's heirs is now playing out in the WA Supreme Court.

A Supreme Court trial has been told Gina Rinehart has known since 1983 that her father's former business partner, Peter Wright, could have a legal claim to royalties from the Hope Downs mine, as her children's claim was labelled "a distraction".

Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart is at the centre of a legal showdown between the descendants of WA's iron ore pioneers, Lang Hancock and Peter Wright, with billions of dollars potentially at stake.

A terminally ill WA man who moved to Australia when he was a baby has been reunited with his family after an intervention from the federal government stopped him being deported to the UK. 

Robert Taylor has cancer and was facing deportation to a country he hasn't lived in since he was 10 months old, but the federal government has now intervened to allow him to stay in Australia.