The Latest Breaking News from Western Australia

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

Supreme court grants woman’s urgent application, but a new order will be required to use sperm for fertilisation

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.

Abortion is now fully legal in every jurisdiction in Australia. Western Australia became the last state to decriminalise it just two months ago, in September 2023. And the Australian population is solidly pro-choice: a 2021 study found 76% of Australians support access to abortion.