Western Australia

About 100 firefighters have been battling bushfires for more than five hours, with the operation expected to go through the night and into tomorrow.

Police hold urgent welfare concerns for Denise Allan who may be travelling with her 41-year-old son. 

The Coroner has handed down scathing findings into the death of Aboriginal boy Cleveland Dodd, who was the first child to die inside a West Australian detention centre.

An intense early-summer heatwave is driving temperatures above 40C across multiple States, prompting severe warnings and raising the risk of bushfires as hot air drifts east.

A group of six foreign nationals has been detained by border authorities in a remote area in the north of the State after arriving by boat earlier this week.

A home has been destroyed but firefighters have saved an aged care facility and a primary school directly in the firing line of a ferocious bushfire believed to have been deliberately lit near Geraldton.

Upon arrival at the scene, police found a woman in her 20s, deceased.

The 44-year-old man held his head in his hands as he was sentenced.

A 60-year-old woman has survived a terrifying night trapped 8m underground in a remote WA cave system, rescued at dawn after crews worked through the darkness to reach her.

A court battle has begun over Virginia Giuffre’s multimillion-dollar estate as her sons face competing claims from former staff.

The Bushfire in Perth’s north has been downgraded to to a watch and act level.

Giuffre’s estranged husband and daughter are likely to join her sons in batting off other parties vying for a slice of her multi-million dollar estate.

A Perth court issued a warrant for his arrest and police suspect he is in NSW.

A middle-aged learner driver who plowed into a 12-year-old girl outside a school then left her for dead has revealed the bizarre reason why she fled the scene.

Matthew William Lawson later said he was devastated to learn his victim had survived, and vowed to go back and finish the job.