The Latest Breaking News from Western Australia

Potential ‘loophole’ in state’s non-lethal strangulation laws could be closed by a statutory definition similar to that used in Western Australia, experts say

A 62-year-old Western Australian woman has been given permission to remove sperm from her dead husband for possible use in posthumous fertilisation.

Heatwave conditions are set to hit the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia with the mercury likely to hit high 40s in several areas.

A volunteer firefighter has died while responding to an out-of-control bushfire threatening homes near Esperance in Western Australia.

The weather bureau has a heatwave warning in effect for parts of Western Australia, as the state's firefighters continue to battle several blazes.

For much of the 65,000 years of Australia’s human history, the now-submerged northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land. This vast, habitable realm covered nearly 390,000 square kilometres, an area one-and-a-half times larger than New Zealand is today.

Explore Rhea Ripley's Instagram update - enjoying a vibrant vacation with friends in Perth, capturing mesmerizing moments in the lush landscapes of Western...

A marathon trial over the spoils from the massive Rio Tinto-operated Hope Downs mining complex in Western Australia has finished after 51 days.

Adam Tomison, Western Australia's justice department chief, has resigned two months after Indigenous teen Cleveland Dodd died in juvenile detention.