Margaret River is making an ambitious play for the global culinary spotlight, with organisers of Pair’d Margaret River Region unveiling a 2026 festival program they say could only happen in Western Australia.
Kirsty Lichtenstein
Another suspected H5 bird flu case is being investigated after five giant petrels were found on an Esperance beach.
Emma Kirk
Another suspected positive case of the deadly H5 bird flu has been detected in WA’s south, bringing the number of confirmed or suspected cases to four.
Oliver Lane
Six vulnerable children have been rescued in the Philippines following an international investigation into an Albany man accused of child abuse offences.
Warnings remain in place as the cold front continues to barrel its way across the State.
Tegwen Bescoby
A French national has been charged with attempting to smuggle drugs in a container labelled as body wash, as well as ingesting steroid tablets, at Perth International Airport.
Claire Sadler
Senior Labor figures have backed Fremantle MP Josh Wilson after he was hit with a massive ban for punching his opponent in the face in an amateur soccer game last month.
Rhianna Mitchell and Andrew Greene
The brother of disgraced Fremantle author Craig Silvey was jailed for three counts of gains benefit by fraud after swindling a WA property developer out of $71 million.
Jessica Evensen
Perth and large parts of WA are bracing for a wild weekend of rain, thunderstorms and dangerous coastal conditions as a powerful cold front barrels across the State.
Troy de Ruyter
Another six birds will be tested for the H5 avian influenza virus in WA as formal testing continues on a seabird that will potentially become the State’s third confirmed case of the deadly strain.
Caitlin Vinci and Alexandra Feiam
An occult podcaster stabbed his fiancee to death in a rage about a rent inspection while he was coming down from a drug-fuelled trip to Sydney.
The flying community is mourning the loss of a pilot who was killed when his amateur-built light plane crashed in the Wheatbelt yesterday.
Brooke Rolfe
Thousands of women could be eligible to join a new Fortescue class action into sexual harassment and sexism in the resources sector following a similar legal battle against giants BHP and Rio Tinto.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Perth could get up to 30mm of rain tomorrow night — and more is expected over the weekend.
Police have located an 81-year-old woman who had not been seen since the early hours of Thursday.
A farmer has dug up about 1.5kg of a rare delicacy worth thousands of dollars on his property and the discovery has sparked global attention.
A WA farmer is fighting for his life in hospital following a serious car accident and intense rescue effort that unfolded on his remote property on Tuesday.
Caleb Runciman and Melissa Pedelty
Gina Rinehart has named a homeless veterans’ housing complex after her “hero” Ben Roberts-Smith, despite the decorated Victoria Cross recipient facing criminal charges.
The future of a mothballed $400m Covid centre in one Aussie state hangs in the balance of a new study, with plans to reshape it to accommodate a growing crisis.
A prestigious program to encourage top science and maths graduates from local universities to boost WA’s artificial intelligence skills could also help arrest the State’s brain drain.
Bethany Hiatt
A wildly popular Aussie activewear brand is on the brink of financial collapse, with the business falling into receivership amid financial pressures.
WA Police will launch an internal investigation into the way officers interacted with Virginia Giuffre in the months before her death, Police Commissioner Col Blanch has confirmed.
The family of Virginia Giuffre, a victim of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has demanded answers over her death, saying the system let her down.
The pilot of an aircraft has died after crashing in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt, about 103km northeast of Perth.
