Rebecca Trigger

Homicide squad detectives are investigating the fatal stabbing of a man near a shopping complex in Perth's southern suburbs late on Christmas Eve.

Snow has arrived in the island state on Christmas morning, but hotter conditions are expected around the country, including a scorcher in the west.

Tropical Cyclone Grant is expected to remain a category one system as it passes just to the north of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands off the West Australian coast.

A 12-year-old girl is in a critical condition after a surfer pulled her unresponsive from the water at Trigg Beach on Tuesday. 

Students from public schools in Perth's southern suburbs take out Western Australia's top education awards for 2025.

The brother of a survivor shot during the weekend terrorist attack in Sydney says it is "utterly shameful" the Australian prime minister has not attended funerals of the victims and has called on him to resign.

The rabbi brother of a healthcare volunteer shot in the Bondi Beach terror attack, damaging his lungs, urges Jewish Australians not to "cower".

Dramatic video shows 43-year-old Ahmed Al Ahmed crouching behind a parked vehicle near one of the Bondi Beach gunmen before disarming him during the terror attack.

Only 10 per cent of allegations of sexual abuse or grooming by childcare workers in Western Australia in the past six years have resulted in someone being banned from working in the industry.

Peter Cowell's whereabouts have been unknown since July 2024, but the ABC has tracked him down to suburban Perth.

The findings of an inquiry into WA's Firearms Act 2024 admitted to issues with a digital portal and a lack of "effective communication".

A terminal cancer patient is told her failure to declare a UTI has voided her insurance policies, leaving her struggling to pay her mortgage and care for her children in her final days.

A federal government plan to slash skilled migration into Western Australia by about 30 per cent would stunt economic growth and slow the construction of homes amid a housing shortage, the state's premier says.

A Perth grandmother duped into becoming a drug mule in an elaborate love scam abandons her final line of appeal on drug importing charges in Japan.

A radicalisation expert warns a crackdown on gun-owning "sovereign citizens" in Western Australia risks further entrenching extremist views in an already disenfranchised group.

Pictured riding on a luxury boat and posing on the deck of a multi-million-dollar home with sweeping views of the Swan River, life appeared good for Jessica Ann Walker in 2022 — but just three years later she would be charged with murdering a man.

New drivers face tougher regulations in WA including extending their probation period, increasing their supervised hours and limiting phone use under a proposed plan by the state government.

The decade-long dispute was related to WA government legislation, which impeded Clive Palmer's ability to extract damages over the Balmoral South Iron Ore Project in the Pilbara. 

Detectives are this week revisiting the site in WA's outback where the body of prospector Ray Kehlet was found. His wife Jennie is still missing.

Optus failed to follow protocol after it only contacted WA Police late Thursday evening about an outage affecting triple-0 calls, Acting Premier Rita Saffioti says. 

WA Police have referred the death of a second West Australian on Thursday during an Optus outage for investigation by the state's coroner, bringing the total number of deaths linked to the incident to four.

Young Australians say they are seeing graphic video of US commentator Charlie Kirk being shot dead pop up in their social media algorithms without warning.

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price attends a Liberal Party fundraiser in Perth, avoiding a sizeable media contingent who had gathered outside the event, a day after being axed from the shadow ministry. 

A childcare operator who tried to force a pregnant employee to resign is among those named and shamed by the federal government in a recent crackdown on national quality standards.

An army reservist with access to high-powered firearms is found guilty of threatening a senior WA Police officer over his involvement in the state's firearm reforms.