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The former partner of a popular social media influencer is found guilty of murdering his mother as part of a plan to claim life insurance policies he had taken out on her.

The man employed to implement changes to WA's youth justice system claims there was "institutional racism" at Banksia Hill youth detention centre.

A leading police officer, road safety minister and father of an 18-year-old who died in a car crash have sat around the same table to talk road safety solutions, as Western Australia's road toll reaches the highest level since 2016. 

Australian woman Donna Nelson has been found guilty of trafficking drugs into Japan. Here is how the two-year saga unfolded and what happens next.

Adeline is a cheeky seven-year-old but her epilepsy has left her brain damaged, and the NDIS won't help, leaving her family desperate for access to therapies that could help her.

Western Australia is battling a surge in whooping cough cases, with a communicable disease expert warning the state was "well overdue for an epidemic".

A court in Japan finds Australian grandmother Donna Nelson guilty of importing two kilograms of methamphetamine into the country.

The man who had been tasked with overhauling WA's troubled youth justice system tells a coronial inquest a "dysfunctionally toxic" culture was the root cause of all problems behind bars.

A Perth man who hit and killed a man who was riding an electric bicycle, and claimed it was a kangaroo he hit, is jailed for more than four years.

A man who allegedly broke into a home in Boulder armed with a machete has died in hospital after an altercation with the homeowner.

A man is dead and another is in hospital with hypothermia after the boat they were on capsized off Perth's northern coast.

Despite a cost-of-living crisis, young people aged 25 to 29 have had the biggest take-up of private health insurance over the last year.

Event organisers say they've been forced to cancel the event, which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, as there isn't enough funding from arts agency Creative Australia.

Skipper Edward James Whisson pleads guilty to putting in danger tourists who were injured in a boat crash at Horizontal Falls. 

WA's Main Roads department says well-organised thieves are increasingly targeting copper wire in street lights. The latest hit has affected an 1,800 metre stretch of cycle path in Mirrabooka.

The four people accused of murdering Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey formally enter pleas of not guilty in WA's Supreme Court.

The WA Labor government launches its re-election bid with a $443 million funding commitment to increase homes across the state, but the timing of the announcement has been criticised by the Opposition. 

National home prices are losing momentum, new data shows, and anticipated interest rate cuts are unlikely to stop falls in house prices next year.

November marked a month where multiple bushfires razed parts of WA while elsewhere, our photographers and reporters shared stories of political drama, uncertainty, and trailblazing success.

Sailing clubs warn that expanding Perth's ferry service will be dangerous and could force them to close. But urban designers are welcoming the opportunity to get more cars off the road.