The Latest Breaking News from Perth

WA's hard border will come down on March 3 in a move that will make it easier to schedule A-League, AFL, NBL, Super Rugby, and netball games in Perth.

Ralph "Terry" Gibbs is handed a suspended jail term for taking his dementia-suffering partner from a Mandurah nursing home and trying to drive her across the country in heatwave conditions.

Holly Fitzwater, 32, who lives in Perth, Scotland, and her partner Jake, 30, were struggling with a serious addiction but have managed to completely turn their lives around

Visiting hours have been reduced at Perth hospitals as COVID impacts another aged care provider, as two staff members from Hollywood Private Hospital test positive to the virus.

A bus driver who "lived and breathed his job" has avoided jail over his "three seconds" of inattention that led to the death of a cyclist at a busy Perth intersection.

Staff at the Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre in Perth warn they are enduring constant violence sparked by detainees being locked down for days at a time, saying some of them should be moved to an adult prison to improve conditions.

A Perth mum whose sons caught COVID-19 on the weekend is urging other parents to vaccinate their children as local transmissions rise.

Perth Sheriff Court was told that Glenn Law had become "totally obsessed" with his former partner.

The number of new locally acquired COVID cases escalates as Premier Mark McGowan comes under sustained pressure to announce a date for the state to reopen, and defence force personnel are stationed outside a Perth nursing home.