The Latest Breaking News from Western Australia

A shark feeding frenzy is filmed by a fisher off Western Australia's coast where an alert remains in place for Norman Beach due to a whale carcass in the area.

Many workers who have moved to the WA tourist town are struggling to find affordable rental properties or share accommodation.

A horticulturalist known across the globe as the inventor of Pink Lady and Sundowner-Joya apples, a culmination of 25 years of research and listed in Australia's top 100 inventions, has died.

Australia's mighty #MeToo wave is piling pressure on mining and political leaders who are preparing to face a reckoning over sexual harassment scandals stretching from the arid Outback to Parliament House.

Good morning, early birds. Education minister Alan Tudge would be returned to his job and to cabinet if Scott Morrison is reelected, and Western Australia has recorded 17,033 new COVID-19 cases overnight. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

Western Australia is forecasting a $5.7 billion budget surplus for 2021/22 with Premier Mark McGowan championing one of the world's strongest economies.

Western Australia sets a fresh record with daily COVID case numbers, which represent almost a 40 per cent jump on Tuesday's figure, with about one in 40 now infected with the virus.

Hundreds of aged care workers in Queensland and Western Australia walk off the job in a stand for better pay and work conditions, but South Australian aged care staff remained diligently at work after the Fair Work Commission put off their strike until the day after the federal election.

Liberal MP Melissa Price has held the vast Western Australian electorate since 2013, and there’s little doubt she’ll still be holding it on May 22.