Louis Gossett Jr, the first black man to ever win a supporting actor Oscar and who starred in groundbreaking 1977 miniseries Roots, has died at the age of 87.
Staff Writers
Mixed reactions and high emotions have greeted the film premiere of Oppenheimer in Japan, where two cities were obliterated by the inventor's nuclear weapons.
Yuri Kageyama
Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger says he's ready to film a new series of his Netflix show after a heart operation following surgery to fit a pacemaker.
Ellie Iorizzo
Fred Again has finally arrived in Perth ahead of his massive sold-out show at Langley Park on Saturday.
Morgan de Smidt
Shooting has officially wrapped on Star Wars hero Daisy Ridley’s zombie film, We Bury the Dead, which has been filming in Albany this month.
Ben O'Shea
The words in rap, country, pop, R&B, and rock songs have become simpler, angrier and more emotional in the past four decades, researchers say.
Nilima Marshall
Scalpers have swooped on Perth’s sell-out Fred Again concert, demanding more than double the price for their tickets to the show.
Natalie Richards
Ahead of her new album Evolution, US rocker Sheryl Crow says "people don't listen to records as a full body of work".
Easter comes early to Perth Concert Hall when WA Symphony Orchestra and St George’s Cathedral Consort broke out the Gloria, missing from churches these past six weeks of Lent.
David Cusworth
A king penguin chick dubbed Pesto has been unveiled by Melbourne aquarium ahead of the Easter holidays.
Nyibol Gatluak
Guy Sebastian’s former manager is preparing to face trial over allegations he embezzled a small fortune from his famous client.
Adelaide Lang
After making a splash on a wall near a London cherry tree, a mural by street artist Banksy has been boarded up following a suspected attack by vandals.
Jill Lawless
The plot of 2022's The Batman wasn't stolen from a story written 30 years earlier, says a judge who ruled the writer, in fact, infringed DC Comics' copyright.
Jonathan Stempel
A golden summer filled with music festivals is something every young person should experience.
Shannon Beven
The City of Perth is suing the production company that brought the Van Gogh Alive experience to WA for alleged damage to the turf of the Supreme Court Gardens.
Jake Dietsch
She’s best known as TV chef Manu Feildel’s other half. But get ready to see Clarissa Feildel in a whole new light, as she steps up to become Better Homes and Gardens’ newest presenter.
Clare Rigden
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre has brought Mem Fox book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge to life, as Bec Bradley makes her mainstage directorial debut with the special intergenerational friendship story.
Tanya MacNaughton
A federal bid to help salvage Australia's live music scene has been launched after Splendour in the Grass cancelled its July event.
William Ton and Holly Hales
“About as serious as an emergency call gets”: Alone Australia Executive Producer Riima Daher opens up to Perth Now about Mike’s life-threatening medical emergency in episode one.
With a storyline featuring tennis and love, the stars of new film Challengers hope to find fans in Australia.
Sophia McCaughan
From Easter markets to Viking adventures and psychedelic blues, there’s something for everyone this week in the Great Southern.
Josiah McMeekin
A family of asylum seekers who run their own successful business have been stripped of their right to work in a move Ally Langdon marked as “gutless”.
Clareese Packer
Big names in Australian music, including Angus and Julia Stone and Peking Duk, are among 11 clients that lost huge sums of money to a dodgy accountant.
Liam Beatty
The jeans of British TV Alan Titchmarsh have proved too much for North Korean censors, but the gardening show host says it gives him "street cred".
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