Western Australia

Defence experts warn the suspicious severing of two vital undersea cables off the WA coast over the weekend highlights the country’s high vulnerability to being cut off from global internet communication.

WA premier Roger Cook has blasted One Nation as a party that promotes convicted criminals after candidate Georgia Tree had claimed Labor had ‘skeletons’ in its closet regarding workplace sexual harassment.

A woman acquitted of an Indigenous teen's murder but convicted of abducting and assaulting other boys is back in court for breaching her suspended sentence.

The property went up in flames after an electric heater caught fire.

A Bali holiday has ended in tragedy for a Perth couple after a crash on a major Denpasar road claimed the life of a Roleystone father and left his wife seriously injured.

A child-sex-accused paediatrician has been charged with a slew of new offences, with seven more alleged victims identified.

One Nation’s Secret Harbour candidate claims an ‘anti-Labor’ sentiment gives him a chance of making history by winning the minor party’s first Lower House seat in WA.

British rapper Yung Filly has been found not guilty of raping a young fan during a one-night stand following a concert in Perth nearly two years ago. 

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.

The Defence Minister insists a military trial is the ‘appropriate’ way to prosecute a senior navy figure over charges involving lucrative contracts despite concerns from officials about a lack of transparency.

Almost seven years after a near-death chopper crash, CASA has finally investigated, finding the high-profile pilot was ‘reckless’, flew ‘unlawfully’ and would have faced up to seven years’ jail if found guilty.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder after he allegedly stabbed his mother to death and seriously injured his sister.

A mother has been killed and a 12-year-old girl seriously injured in what police believe to be a family violence incident at a Perth home.

A legal contest over the federal government's decision to grant a 40-year extension of Australia's largest gas project will head to the Federal Court.

BHP has drawn its battlelines with bright green cones as the Port Hedland community braces for union-led strikes that could worsen the town’s ‘already exorbitant’ cost of doing business.

New details reveal how a local livestock farmer accidentally stumbled across a German backpacker 12 days after she went missing, triggering an international search and rescue mission.

New details reveal what the 17-year-old had told her family before she travelled to Pattaya, where tragically she would be killed and stuffed in a suitcase days later.

The 39-year-old, who had lived in Bali for 15 years where he was married with an eight-year-old son, was awaiting deportation over visa issues.