The Latest Breaking News from Perth

Perth and Kinross firefighters to join first national strike in two decades over pay dispute

The industrial action was announced after the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) rejected a five per cent pay rise offer in November

Daily Record · Feb 3, 2023

Nando’s given the go-ahead to serve up first ever restaurant in Perth

The peri-peri chicken specialists will now reserve a permanent spot at Inveralmond Retail Park

Daily Record · Feb 3, 2023

Council looks poised to close loss-making Perth Harbour

Councillors have been recommended to next week vote for its closure as a commercial port and support the regeneration for other commercial uses

Daily Record · Feb 3, 2023

Glory recruit Elsey out to ground former Jets teammates

January recruit Jordan Elsey is grateful for his time at Newcastle but is out to bring down his former club when they visit his new side Perth Glory in the ALM.

AAP · Feb 3, 2023

Calls to ban cats roaming Perth CBD to protect native fauna

A Perth council meeting has unanimously passed a motion calling for laws to prohibit "killing machine" cats roaming outside amid concerns about their impact on wildlife.

ABC News · Feb 2, 2023

New Indigenous aged care hub in Mandurah to provide service tailored to Aboriginal people

First Nations people in Western Australia have long struggled to access the aged care system, with advocates describing the lack of services tailored to Indigenous elders as appalling. They hope that's about to change.

ABC News · Feb 2, 2023

‘Relatively common’: WA’s lost-and-found radioactive capsule not the only missing material around

The tiny capsule that fell out of a Perth-bound truck captured the world’s attention, but experts say hundreds of radioactive sources go missing each year

The Guardian - AU · Feb 2, 2023

Conman scammed Scots hotel out of £13,000 using 'sophisticated' scheme

Dillon Anandarajan, 28, and Kevin Truong, 26, checked into the Holiday Inn Express in Perth to spend the night together on 13 October 2020.

Daily Record · Feb 2, 2023

Australia's radioactive capsule en route to storage as investigation begins

A lost radioactive capsule found after a search along a 1,400 km stretch of the arid Western Australian outback is due to arrive in Perth on Thursday evening as investigators work on piecing together just how it fell from a truck.

Reuters · Feb 2, 2023

Scorcher Kelly opens up on 'scary' fielding mishap

Matt Kelly is symptom-free and available for the BBL final but the Perth Scorchers paceman does not want to watch any more replays of his freak fielding mishap.

AAP · Feb 2, 2023