The Latest Breaking News from WA Police

A West Australian police officer has died after he was run over and dragged under a car during an arrest, it was announced on Sunday night.

Police find 29 packages of the drug hidden onboard a bulk cargo carrier bound for Western Australia, in one of the largest cocaine busts in decades.

A Perth prospector who had been missing in the Midwest outback since Saturday has been found alive.

It's been almost 50 years since Jimmy Taylor vanished from outside a shop in his home town. Now a new suspect and a $1 million reward have sparked hopes the mystery may be solved.

Geraldton detectives say a loaded gun, gel blaster and assorted rounds of ammunition were among items seized by police during a recent search.

A 75-year-old man who built a mattress out of tree branches and wrote a message for rescuers in the sand has been found by police after spending a night alone in "one of the least populated places on the planet".

Frenchman Antoine Dicenta will spend at least 18 years behind bars for his part in a failed attempt to import drugs with a street value of up to $185 million into Western Australia.

An additional 60 unsolved missing and murdered persons cases in WA, including those of amateur prospectors Raymond and Jennie Kehlet, will attract rewards of $1 million each for information that results in a conviction.

WA's Corruption and Crime Commission finds a police officer engaged in serious misconduct by pulling, punching and swearing at a man during an arrest in Mirrabooka in Perth's north.

The journalist’s home was searched hours after she photographed the relocation of sacred art from a fertiliser plant in the Pilbara.

Detectives from Western Australia's Child Abuse Squad charge a 41-year-old teacher with indecently recording four female students at a Catholic college in Perth's north-east.