The Latest Breaking News from Western Australia

A Western Australian botanist says some native plants in the Fitzgerald River National Park are not rejuvenating from historical bushfires, and believes more research is required into the impact of all fires, including prescribed burns.

Police are examining the contents of a black bag found washed up on a beach on Western Australia's south coast.

Up to 900 of Western Australia's rarest orchids have been stolen from a conservation garden in a devastating blow for two species teetering on the brink.

‘The fact that two pilots walked away from the accident is simply amazing,’ says aviation analyst

Investigators to examine wreckage and interview two pilots who were responding to a bushfire in the Fitzgerald River national park

A probe has been launched into a crash involving a 737 air tanker on the way to a bushfire in southern Western Australia.

The pilots managed to free themselves from the wreckage after the plane came down in the Fitzgerald River National Park on WA's south coast yesterday afternoon.

A 16-year-old girl died on Saturday after being mauled by a shark in a river in Western Australia's state capital Perth after she jumped in the water to swim with a pod of dolphins.

A group of teenagers were jetskiing along the Swan River in western Australia, when they reportedly jumped in to swim with dolphins - leading to one being brutally attacked and killed by a shark