Western Australia

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.

The accused killer became emotional after reading the contents of his mother’s message following his arrest.

A Thailand woman has revealed vile details about a night she spent with Perth man Simon Carman just weeks before he allegedly killed a 17-year-old girl.

The freak accident happened inside the kitchen of his home.

Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia has quit politics, revealing a relative’s ill health is behind his early retirement.

The case has made global headlines and has angry Thais demanding the death penalty — as police probe the brutal death of teen Tunchanok Donhomla, a Perth man accused of killing her is facing execution.

EXCLUSIVE: Perth is at the centre of an international diplomatic stoush as Beijing urges the Albanese Government to block Taiwan from setting up an unofficial consular presence in WA.

The Perth man accused of strangling a Thai teenager and stuffing her body into a suitcase was spotted drinking with a sex worker just hours before the alleged murder, according to local witnesses.

Authorities have confirmed another case of H5 bird flu in a migratory bird in WA, outlining details of the latest detections across two Australian states.

The inferno burned for hours and smothered suburbs in toxic smoke. Now there is a new threat.

Months of bizarre social media posts by the Australian man accused of murdering a 17-year-old Thai girl have been uncovered by The Nightly.

Former neighbours of the Perth man charged with murder after the body of a 17-year-old Thai girl was found dumped inside a suitcase have expressed their shock. WARNING: DISTRESSING DETAILS.

Another suspected positive case of the deadly H5 bird flu has been detected in an Aussie State.