The former Peel Health Campus security guard convicted earlier this year over the sexual assault of a teenage girl in his care was sentenced to four and a half years' imprisonment on Friday.
Former Murdoch University vice-chancellor Richard Higgott used a work laptop to access pornography, did not follow university protocol when giving one friend a job and then lied to the institution's chancellor in appointing another, WA's Corruption and Crime Commission has found.
The West Australian's editor-in-chief told staff that the publication's business model was broke and urgently needed fixing - two months before this week's news of a fresh round of redundancies at the state's daily paper.
The state government has launched disciplinary action against the North Perth child care centre where two children were taken from its grounds and sexually assaulted - alleging several safety breaches.
A WA police spokeswoman told WAtoday: "Should police receive a formal complaint from a member of the public, that complaint will be investigated."
Footage has emerged of an unsolved crime earlier this month, in which thieves rammed a stolen ute into the front of a Narrogin supermarket then set fire to it.
A serious crash has closed a major artery south of Perth on Friday afternoon.
Police are investigating after a man's body was found in the water in Fremantle on Friday.
Workers at the Chevron Gorgon project, on Barrow Island off the Pilbara coast were evacuated because of a gas leak on Friday.
Western Australia hasn't been a happy hunting ground for federal Labor for more than 20 years, but that could change come Saturday.
A famously sweet Perth mummy 'vlogger', sick of being told her long-haired boys look girlish, has shown the general public her sharper side with the open letter, "Little Boys' hair 101."
The Yarloop community is reeling again, after thieves broke into their temporary Bushfire Brigade headquarters and stole hundreds of items donated by the public after the January bushfire.
The unexpected turn-up of Daniel Chick might only have been the second biggest shock of the Eagles' 2006 premiership reunion.
Residents in regional WA have been cut off from watching Channel 9 programs on their televisions after the network was unable to strike a deal with the state's licence holders WIN and Prime.
Lloyd Rayney has labelled the police investigation into his estranged wife's murder a nine-year farce, saying it remains a solvable crime despite the cold case review being wound up with no results.
Commuters are being warned to prepare for the biggest continuous disruption in Transperth's history as it shuts down the Armadale-Thornlie train line for nine days, starting Friday evening.
Perth has recorded its coldest minimum temperature of the year, with the mercury actually dropping after the sun came up – to three degrees Celsius at 7am.
Less than three weeks after unloading on the West Coast Eagles on Facebook, Daniel Chick was welcomed back into the fold on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the 2006 premiership.
The AFL will do whatever it can to help drug addict and troubled ex-Eagle Ben Cousins, league chief executive Gillon McLachlan says.
Before the death of worker Lee Buzzard on a Rio Tinto mine in the state's Pilbara region, the union had been raising concerns about site safety with the company for months.
New search and seizure laws targeting methylamphetamine being distributed through Western Australia's regional road network and postage system could put police officers at risk, the union fears.
Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has conceded that "all identified lines of enquiries have been exhausted" in the cold-case investigation into the death of Corryn Rayney.
Former Perth socialite Radhika Oswal tried to avoid paying creditors by transferring ownership of Perth's infamous "Taj on Swan" and another luxury property to a sham company owned by her brother, a court has ruled.
It's Perth's summer playground with pristine beaches, stunningly clear water and that sunny island vibe, but how does Rottnest stack up as a winter destination?
How many people does it take to clean up a fuel spill that's causing peak hour traffic to descend into chaos in Perth? Just one apparently, and five others to watch on.
Police are investigating the mysterious death of a woman found injured and unconscious on a Willetton road early on Wednesday morning.
A WA prison escapee has been arrested after police allegedly found him hiding in the boot of a car in the Goldfields region on Wednesday.
WA Police have released CCTV footage of two anti-islamic attacks in Perth's south east in an attempt to determine if both are incidents are linked.
The Corruption and Crime Commission has finally admitted it had been investigating the sacking of former City of Perth CEO Gary Stevenson.
The controversy over the age of budding Australian NBA star Thon Maker won't go away, with new 'evidence' popping up suggesting he graduated from Perth's Aranmore College in 2010.