Perth News & Information

Brisbane Lions’ fans won’t be the only Aussies celebrating a sensational win after Saturday Lotto gave WA a reason to get in on the weekend’s festivities. 

Teenager Xavier Gemmel spends an average of five hours a day on social media when not at school and thinks the Federal Government’s impending ban is pointless.

Authorities will be keeping a close eye on toys sold at the Perth Royal Show this weekend as parents are warned on a potentially lethal risk.

Multiple emergency crews are at the scene of a horrific crash on Indian Ocean Drive on Saturday afternoon. 

Mandurah detectives are calling for the public’s help to locate a man who may be armed.

Emergency services are rushing to put out a boat fire in the popular Hillarys Boat Harbour on Saturday morning.

Four people have been taken to hospital after a car left the road and crashed in the city’s south in the early hours of Saturday.

As childhood vaccination rates fall, experts warn that misinformation is helping fuel a measles comeback.

A fireball lit up the sky and 23 passengers and five crew were killed. The lone survivor, 67-year-old Edgar Forwood, was thrown clear but suffered third-degree burns and died in hospital five days later.

On the fifth anniversary of his conviction, we reveal the meticulous prison life of neat-freak Claremont murderer Bradley Edwards who grooms guards with lingering gazes and earns $76 a week.

The West Australian reporter Jess Evensen has tested out the Perth Royal Show’s scariest rides.

A woman is homeless after her ‘shoddy’ new home constructed by banned NicheLiving builders left her new home crumbling around her.

Mullaloo Heights Primary School students are painting a brighter future. The year six class spent 10 weeks perfecting papeir-mache creations of their pet pups to help raise funds for Telethon.

Police have warned an NBN outage may be affecting calls to emergency services from a landline.

Police have completed an investigation into claims a school principal indecently assaulted a student on a school camp and have not laid charges.

The men were all couriers for a Mexican cartel who were set to make approximately $300 million off the sale of the drugs, but a sophisticated sting by WA Police meant the drugs never made it to the streets.

A freak find in a Perth op-shop has led to the return of a culturally significant artefact nearly 2000km away in Western Australia’s Kimberley region.

A humpback whale was spotted off the WA coast struggling to surface, tangled in rope, triggering a frantic local rescue and race against time to save it.

An NBN outage in the Goldfields-Esperance region is preventing people from making phone calls — including to triple-0 — from landline services.

Treasurer Rita Saffioti has unveiled a much bigger than expected Budget surplus, as other States eye off the GST deal that has added to the Cook Government’s good fortunes.

Six couriers in one of Australia’s biggest and most bungled drug smuggling operations have learnt their fate, with the judge labelling the men ‘hopeless’ puppets in a ‘shambles’.

New details have emerged about an Aussie stockbroker who died in a plane crash during a failed drug run in Brazil.

Elections are coming up and Perth lord mayoral candidates are split, with some pledging to ban business class travel and others defending it as essential.

Behind this pristine beach picture lies a deadly threat that claims up to 21 lives per year – more than sharks, floods and cyclones combined.

Police confirmed the 12-year-old died at the scene.

There are claims multiple staff at St John WA’s Perth emergency call centre have been left with permanent hearing damage, and out of pocket as a result of medical checks.

Town of Victoria Park mayor Karen Vernon has met City of Perth council members seeking their support in opposing the Burswood sport and entertainment precinct.

A new exhibition at the WA Maritime Museum honours the nonnas who arrived in Fremantle during the wave of Italian migration to Australia from the early 1900s to the1970s.

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Residents in remote coastal communities have been put on alert after a series of gross discoveries on local beaches.

Police are searching for four masked men wielding machetes who terrorised Perth’s northern suburbs in a violent crime spree.

A complaint was made to WA Police following a protracted investigation into allegations of abuse at a Perth childcare centre, despite officers finding there was “no offence detected”.

But conservationists were unimpressed by the relatively small penalty, believing it paved the way for developers to act first and ask for forgiveness after.

The number of fully vaccinated West Australian kids has dropped below the national threshold for all age groups, the nation’s leading immunisation body has revealed.

The Treasurer has moved to placate nervous Labor MPs in Western Australia with a rushed assurance that the resources State will always get its ‘fair share’ of GST.

A service that provides a wraparound approach to helping children and young people who have been sexually abused has been given $4.2 million in funding.

‘Rest in paradise, the love of my life.’

A new primary school in Perth’s far north will be operational from 2027 but will take years to realise its full capacity in student numbers.

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He was photographed fleeing from waiting media outside the Albany courthouse with a bag zipped over his head.

Bullsharks have been filmed circling in the Swan River, closeby to the area where a Perth schoolgirl was fatally attacked two years ago.

The 59-year-old will be forced to serve a six-year drug trafficking sentence after a Japanese court rejected her appeal.

People in the area are urged to stay inside and shut their doors and windows.

Police have warned those celebrating the AFL grand final and travelling for the school holidays at the weekend that officers will be out in force amid the deadliest road toll in almost two decades.

A newly renovated house, no more bills and lots of travel are a reality for a Fremantle couple who scooped a massive $2.16 million in Lotto loot.

Police have appealed for public assistance to find a woman who removed her ankle monitor.

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Police continue to search an ‘extensive area’ north-east of Wanneroo for the seventh day, looking for the body of a missing man amid fears he was killed before his remains were dumped in bushland.

A man has escaped with minor injuries after smashing his white Mercedes into a roadworks traffic barrier truck on the Mitchell Freeway in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Detectives have upped the search where a murdered prospector was found, hoping to solve his wife’s mysterious disappearance.