Perth News & Information

It was a burnt tea towel that really brought the message home that some things really are irreplaceable amid the devastation of the Victorian bushfires.

Larvotto Resources currently holds the largest antimony mineral resource in the country at its Hillgrove project near Armidale in New South Wales.

Over two nights, Funtavia festival delivered on its promise to bring ‘fun grunge’ experimental arts to Geraldton.

Geraldton’s much-loved annual Australia Day fireworks will return to the foreshore this year, with an exciting program of activities announced last week. 

Residents are being warned to prepare for severe wind gusts and rainfall that could lead to flash flooding. 

A detective investigating shootings and firebombings linked to WA’s illicit tobacco trade says criminal syndicates don’t appear to be paying “low-level criminals” to carry out their dirty work. 

A children’s cancer support centre in West Leederville was deliberately set alight, forcing the closure of a vital refuge for sick kids and sending shockwaves through the tight-knit community.

A man who hit a 58-year-old over the head with a hammer before assaulting the victim’s daughter as she defended him and throwing a pot through the window of a sleeping child has avoided immediate jail.

A Mt Lawley man who allegedly drove at a speed of nearly 200km/h on the Albany Highway in Kendenup last week will face reckless driving charges in court.

Ryan Chapman and a friend had been diving off Quins Rock at the weekend when they surfaced and realised their boat had gone.

A Great Southern primary school that was open for a whole school year without any students enrolled has closed, with Gairdner Primary School shutting its gates for good on December 31. 

GRAPHIC IMAGE WARNING: RSPCA WA inspectors said it was the worst condition they had ever seen a dog.

Retirement just got a lot more comfortable for a southern suburbs man after he accidentally bought two winning Lotto tickets.

Plastic is still making up more than half of the material littered around WA, despite bags, cups and straws being banned, a report has revealed.

Residents of a Baldivis home had a rude awakening in the middle of the night when a car ploughed into their house.

The 27-year-old driver narrowly missed a bedroom where a child was sleeping.

The blaze is believed to have started at the rear of the property before spreading to the roof. 

WA’s outer metropolitan suburbs are leading the charge to install home batteries, with Armadale, Cockburn and Wanneroo topping the list since mid-2025. 

About a dozen shops across WA have been shot at or set on fire allegedly by recruits of tobacco syndicates. Most are back up and running – and still openly selling illegally imported cigarettes.

Kerry Smith thought she was doing the right thing when, feeling the early signs of a cold, she took a popular supplement she’d used before.

The Cook Government has cut the number of enforcement checks on tobacconists and retailers at a time when the illicit cigarette war is spiralling out of control into dangerous violence.

Volunteer firefighter Matthew Petch has been remembered for making the world ‘a better place’ after he tragically lost his battle against a rare and aggressive cancer.

Dozens of West Australian emergency services specialists are flying to Victoria as devastating bushfires ravage communities across the state.

The Cook Government will not commit to urgent action to fix a loophole that could force WA Police to release terror suspects, despite the devastating Bondi massacre.

With only four sessions permitted each season – each limited to just one hour between 7am and 8am – abalone fishers have limited time to catch their quota.

Residents of a Baldivis home had a rude awakening in the middle of the night when a car ploughed into their house.

Just a handful of tickets remain for the much-anticipated return of AFL State of Origin football, the Perth game marking a return of the spectacle after a 27-year hiatus.

Australia Day is turning into a case of ground hog day across Perth as the annual debate over when events should be held re-emerges.

A group of metal detecting friends have uncovered two wartime artillery shells in suburban parks 10km apart. 

WA’s top firefighter has expressed his frustration after revealing crews responded to nearly six suspicious or deliberately lit fires every day in the first month of summer. 

A single mum who repaid rent arrears after falling ill last year is being evicted from a social housing home where she has lived for the past four years with nowhere to go.

Repairs to the Trans-Australian rail line are continuing around the clock following a freight train derailment in SA that stopped train services and cut-off supplies to WA.

A sixth person has faced court over his role in an alleged plot to import and distribute more than half a tonne of cocaine into Western Australia.

Dozens of greedy fishers were fined during the second session of the abalone fishing season on Saturday. 

The small towns of Moora and Gnowangerup have emerged as WA’s baby hotspots, bucking a national trend that has sent Australia’s fertility rate to a record low.

Lancelin locals found large packages tied to flotation drums in the ocean about 30 kilometres offshore that police allege was left there by a passing livestock carrier.

It was 1867 and word had arrived from Britain of a very special guest — none other than Queen Victoria’s second son, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh

Authorities are urging those in heatwave affected areas to use common sense, stay cool and look out for the elderly as temperatures soar past 43C.

‘I just felt this really intense burning feeling across both legs, got out of the water, couldn’t see anything.’

With only four sessions permitted each season – each limited to just one hour between 7am and 8am – abalone fishers have limited time to catch their quota.

Pressure is rising to decide on the future of Albany’s hydrotherapy pool as the Albany MLA joins community advocates calling for the State Government to release the results of a feasibility study

Seven men have been charged following a police blitz on shops selling illegal tobacco throughout Mandurah and the South West. 

New data reveals the number of children treated for injuries at Perth Children’s Hospital’s emergency department last month, with one family’s story serving as a warning to others.

German backpacker Carolina Wilga is selling her van more than five months after it crashed and became bogged in WA’s Wheatbelt region.

People in the warning zones are urged to prepare for destructive wind gusts.

Western Australia is tipped to continue its nation-leading population growth for the next four decades, even as population slows across the country.

Australia is on the cusp of reaching a population milestone – even as the nation stares down the barrel of a demographic crisis amid crashing migration and birthrate levels.

The son of a Perth woman who was killed by a shark nine years ago says people have less protection in the ocean off WA’s coast today than they did when his mother died.

Two motorcyclists have died after colliding head-on in a late-night crash in Wembley on Thursday.