The Latest Breaking News from Western Australia

Western Australia's government will invest $25 million into the trouble-plagued Banksia Hill youth detention centre in next month's budget.

A pilot and passenger have survived a crash landing near an airport in Western Australia's remote north.

Western Australia's Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson officially declares the state is past its peak in COVID-19 cases, but warns that scrapping face masks now could have a devastating impact.

Western Australia's unemployment rate has fallen to a national low of 3.4 per cent, its lowest level in 14 years with almost 1.5 million people now in work.

Limited access to rapid antigen test kits, insufficient health services, a food shortage and overcrowding in homes has led Western Australia's remote Kimberley communities to say they feel 'abandoned' in the state government's response to remote COVID outbreaks.

Close contact rules are relaxed just in time for the Easter long weekend, with fewer capacity limits and the scrapping of check-in rules everywhere except hospitals.

Over the next six weeks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese will dash around the country, trying to secure as many precious votes as they can.

As WA's seven-day average of new cases continues to decline, an epidemiologist says the state has passed its Omicron peak — but there are more challenges ahead, with fresh outbreaks and even future pandemics on the horizon.

University of Western Australia Publishing has just released the first of three volumes of John Kinsella’s Collected Poems.

The map below shows the 2019 federal election results adjusted for redistributions in Victoria and Western Australia. Victoria gained a seat (Hawke), while WA lost one (Stirling). Hawke is a notional Labor seat, while Stirling was a Liberal seat, so Labor gained one notional seat by redistribution.

Locals get to work cleaning an estimated 16,000 dead fish from beaches on Western Australia's Ningaloo coastline, after the state's largest fish kill in more than a decade.