Dash camera mandate for WA driving instructors considered as part of regulation review
Driving instructors in Western Australia could be forced to install cameras inside their vehicles in a bid to…
Two teenagers sentenced to detention over attacks on Perth men lured via Grindr app
Two “cowardly” teenage boys who used a dating app to target gay men in violent ambushes, including one…
Short-term stays are swallowing up housing stock in these WA coastal havens
Tourism is these towns’ biggest breadwinner — but with a housing crisis in full swing, short-term stays are…
Inside Ninga Mia, a forgotten community in the shadow of Kalgoorlie the city of gold
There’s an eerie silence in Ninga Mia. It’s palpable, like a heavy fog. The paint on the playground…
WA politicians slam Optus after telco’s outage linked to triple-0 call failures
The WA government has confirmed the death of a 74-year-old man is one of three deaths linked to…
What we know about the Optus outage which disrupted triple-zero calls, resulted in three deaths
It’s been two days since three people died, including an eight-week-old baby, after a devastating Optus outage caused…
Perth childcare worker Robert David Reti found not guilty of indecently touching two young girls
A male childcare worker has been found not guilty in a Perth court of indecently touching two young…
WA coal phase-out uncertainty amid Bluewaters power station closure backflip
In many ways, it was a perfectly reasonable venue to launch “a comprehensive plan to upgrade” Western Australia’s…
Brittany Higgins files last-day appeal over ex-senator Linda Reynolds’s defamation win
Brittany Higgins has lodged an appeal against a WA Supreme Court judgement that she defamed former Liberal senator…
WA Police officers subject to restraining orders desk-bound under gun reforms, union says
WA Police officers are being taken off the beat because new firearms laws mean they can’t carry a…
What the federal government’s $12 billion AUKUS investment means for WA’s labour, housing shortages
WA’s civil construction industry says it’s confident it can meet demand stemming from the federal government’s $12 billion…
Shadow minister Andrew Hastie says he will be ‘without a job’ if Liberals don’t abandon net zero
Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie has indicated he will quit or be dumped from the shadow cabinet if the Coalition…