The rain may hold off for the Western Derby on Sunday afternoon but blustery winds are likely to impact the game.

The parents of baby Riley Hughes, who died from whooping cough at four weeks old, have welcomed their third child, a daughter, into the world.

The Avon Descent got underway in Northam on Saturday morning to almost perfect river conditions, with the first of 65 power boats completing stage one of the race just before 9am.

Major Crime Squad detectives are heading to WA's Pilbara region to investigate the death of a man after an assault at a hotel on Friday night.

Police had bottles thrown at them while trying to break up an out-of-control party in Perth's northern suburbs on Friday night.

Health Minister John Day has agreed to "fix" the new parking infringement system at public hospitals after a mother was slapped with a $1000 fine following a dash to Princess Margaret Hospital's emergency department with her sick son.

A man who was left a paraplegic and partially blind after police shot him during a siege is reminded every day about his crime and should be spared jail, his lawyer says.

A young Australian Youtuber has helped reunite a U.S family after a 10-year-old boy recognised his missing mother, who he thought had died, in a video the blogger filmed about helping homeless people.

Police have released the name and photograph of the third man wanted over the kidnap and murder of Joondalup mother Peta Fairhead, urging him to turn himself in. 

It is well known that Western Australia has been the nation's fastest growing state over the past decade but Tuesday's census will reveal who and where those extra hundreds of thousands of people are.

It is alleged Lucas James Yarran, 20, and Leroy Daniel Smith, 19, were armed with a baseball bat and machete when they entered Peta Fairhead's house and also stole jewellery and methamphetamine.

A Swan Veterinary Hospital vet nurse has been reunited with her "weak and dehydrated" but otherwise unharmed barn owl after a storm of publicity surrounded the owl's theft.

Police a hunting a person who attacked a woman in Shoalwater just after midnight on Friday morning.

Two men have been charged with murdering WA mother-of-three, Peta Fairhead who died after being dumped outside Joondalup Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The RSPCA's Malaga Animal Care Centre, presently sheltering 60 homeless dogs, has been infected by the lethal parvovirus.

A West Australian man has been charged with sexually assaulting and robbing a woman in her home when he was 13-years old.

Adventure World is reportedly suing a fireworks company who allegedly caused a $1 million fire at the theme park's castle in 2013.

​It's situated at Point Zero – the point from which all distances from Perth are measured – but despite this iconic status as the geographical heart of Perth, the State Buildings sat unloved and unused for 20 years... until now.

Perth's struggling live music scene is set to get a boost with the drummer of local popsters Gyroscope set to open a live venue in Northbridge.

The woman who died after being dumped outside Joondalup Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning was young mother-of-three, Peta Fairhead.

The state was still in a boom when the Census last hit town in 2011.

Three inquisitive humpback whales circled a group of swimmers taking part in WA's first humpback whale encounter tour off the Ningaloo coast on Tuesday.

The number and weight of amphetamine-type seizures soared 32 and 125 per cent respectively last year, as arrests also jumped 40 per cent.

The twin towers of Nic Naitanui and Aaron Sandilands are set to clash again in Western Derby 44 but promising Fremantle midfielder Connor Blakely remains on the outer.

Has out-of-contract Fremantle midfielder Michael Barlow given a hint he might not be a Docker next year?

If you thought it was raining more on the weekends in Perth this winter, you're right.

A West Australian man has pleaded guilty to 61 charges related to the sexual abuse of a girl who was offered up for sexual abuse by her own father.

A teacher sacked from Guildford Grammar after he was charged with possessing child porn remained silent outside court on Thursday.

In football one-percenters can go unrewarded on the stat sheet, but those little heroic acts can be the difference when it comes to dragging your team over the line.