Fremantle president Steve Harris has quit the top job at Dockers.

A new quadriplegic centre, a national park and a sealed road at a tourist hot spot have been announced at the Liberal state conference in Perth.

West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says he is delighted with the proposed changes to the GST distribution system and claims the opposition is peeved he has succeeded for the state.

Former Fremantle and North Melbourne great Peter Bell has slammed claims made in the media saying he called the environment at the Dockers "horrid".

An alleged milk truck thief has been charged with a string of offences, including ramming a police car, after evading capture for 5.5 hours in Perth while scattering milk and crates across the city.

A Perth woman whose son has Down syndrome voiced her disgust over some "d---head" who threw a bottle through the window of a bus carrying disabled children in the southern suburbs of Perth last week.

• COMMENT

​For the average Australian on the east coast, complaints from the WA side about getting a raw deal on the carve up of the GST revenue pie are dismissed as whingeing.

Two children have contracted meningococcal in Western Australia in a week.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has committed to changing the rules to stop WA getting the nation's worst share of GST by a long way.

A two-hour police chase through Perth's eastern suburbs ended with an arrest in East Victoria Park on Saturday morning.

Western Australia's drying climate is bad news for our western swamp tortoises, and scientists have moved fast in another bid to save them from extinction.

The WA Liberal Party has started its annual conference with attacks on coalition partners in the National Party, and Labor.

The state government has taken the first steps toward forcing drug addicts into rehab by setting up a consultation group which will include addicts. 

A pensioner in Maylands has been ordered to surrender dozens of pet cats after neighbours complained about the stench of urine and faeces, while inspectors deemed the house unfit for human habitation.

Could the answer to the Eagles travel woes lie with a routine employed by a former captain of their greatest rivals?

If WA Police think Pokemon Go and smartphones are dangerous habits for people on our roads, then one fool has taken driver distraction to the extreme.

A Perth taxi driver who fled to India a day after raping a passenger and indecently assaulting another has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.

Fiery Fremantle forward Hayden Ballantyne has joined superstar teammate Nat Fyfe in exploring trade options in an escalating fallout from a disastrous Dockers season.

Thieves have stolen an ATM in the northern suburbs of Perth after ram raiding a shopping centre with a stolen car, which later went up in flames.

Grandparents Keith and Marg Thomas weren't the only ones chilling in a quiet creek in WA's Kimberly recently.

The father of young Perth mother Peta Fairhead - who died after being dumped outside a Joondalup hospital this month - has spoken about the pain of burying his "beautiful kid" and a new struggle to support her three children.

Long-suffering Fremantle Dockers fans can rest easy there is a "rainbow" on the horizon.

Because of Pokmeon's success there will be more games that combine apps and virtual reality with being active in the real world

​"Miss T" says the words domestic violence don't capture the horror of being abused in your own home by a so-called loved one.

If you're up for a mid-winter camping sojourn in WA then this is the weekend to do it.

A primary school in Perth's southern suburbs has issued a Facebook alert to parents and students after an apparent case of whooping cough at a neighbouring high school.

The Eagles have made only one change for their crucial clash with away Greater Western Sydney with premiership player Sam Butler coming straight back into the team.

A drug rehabilitation facility that would have been the first of its kind in WA has been knocked back by the City of Busselton council.

Liza Harvey says Brendon Grylls' plans for a mining tax go against her DNA but insists she's happy to see him back as WA Nationals leader.