The Latest Breaking News from Western Australia

Energy giant proposes monitoring wells for five years, as government says seepage volumes are factored into emissions reduction targets

Australian wines picked up more Best in Show awards than any other country this year at the Decanter World Wine Awards.

Three teenage boys from Geraldton, WA, are fighting for life as police probe a major house fire in Western Australia.

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.

Investigators are examining the scene of a house fire at Geraldton in Western Australia, where three teenage boys were badly burned.

The Bureau of Meteorology forecasts parched conditions across virtually all of Australia this winter as a double whammy of drought-linked climate drivers brew in waters to the west and east.

With the withdrawal of his principal challengers and the implicit endorsement from key factions within the Labor party, Roger Cook will become Western Australia’s 31st premier. We can expect final endorsement from the Labor caucus and a formal swearing-in from the WA governor in the coming days.

The Morrison government’s decision to give a special deal to Western Australia for the distribution of the income from the goods and service tax is one of the worst public policy decisions made in Australia in the past two decades.

Australia's largest state by land area, resource-rich Western Australia, is set to elect deputy premier Roger Cook as its new leader after he secured the support of most legislators from his party.