PERTH -- On Australia's western coast, Perth stands quite alone; the closest major city, Adelaide, is more than 2,000 kilometers away. However, the capital of the state of Western Australia has not ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Western Australia’s commercial fishing industry is pushing back against a major ban off the Perth and South West coast, questioning the ...

A major court challenge to the WA government’s sweeping demersal fishing ban has been decried as “corporate bullying” by the state’s peak conservation body, as a petition launched by an industry ...

Two seafood companies are challenging the WA government's fishing reforms in the Supreme Court. The companies say a ban on demersal trawling in the Pilbara will impact regional jobs, local food supply ...

Firefighters are battling dozens of blazes under extreme fire conditions from the Mid West to Great Southern including areas around the Perth Hills. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) warned very hot and ...

The Department of Fire and Emergency Services issued a bushfire emergency warning at 2pm on Sunday for Eneabba and Warradarge, more than two hours north of Perth. “You are in danger and need to act ...

Perth is in the grip of its hottest spell of the summer so far, with temperatures tipped to hit 40 degrees Celsius on Sunday. Damaging thunderstorms are also forecast for Perth on Sunday, but with not ...

Court heard Alicia Kemp, 25, from Redditch, Worcestershire was over the blood alcohol limit when she drove into Thanh Phan, 51, in Perth A British backpacker has been sentenced to four years in prison ...

Emergency warning issued for parts of Kenwick, Wattle Grove, Maddington and Beckenham in Perth’s south-east Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Gusty winds have hampered the ...

When the NRL announced there would be a new team launching in Perth, the town’s dominant newspaper, The West Australian, immediately declared in a front page they were “The Bad News Bears”. West ...

Insurance Australia Group will ask the competition regulator to reassess its $1.35 billion purchase of The Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia’s insurance business under new merger rules taking ...

A Fisheries Agency panel on Monday approved a new catch quota allocation plan for Japanese common squid for the current fishing season. While the overall catch quota, itself, will not be changed, a ...