Renewables company Carnegie Clean Energy confirms it is interested in developing WA Labor's proposal for a wave power farm in Albany, in Western Australia's Great Southern.
As Australia's five teams put the finishing touches on their Super Rugby preparations, improving their record against New Zealand rivals is a key priority.
People with an incapacity or disability that makes it difficult for them to vote at ballot boxes will be able to have their say at the March state election via the internet, a first for Western Australia.
Feral pig populations in Western Australia's south-west are now in the "tens of thousands" with authorities fighting against the animals' ability to reproduce at a rapid rate.
Five of Australia's Catholic archbishops will give evidence today in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. This is who they are, what they've said and their relationship to Cardinal George Pell.
With just over two weeks to polling day, WA's political leaders clash in a televised debate over debt, experience and political promises, with each trying to "aggressively" undermine the other's credibility.
Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney is dealt a blow on the eve of the hearing of his multi-million-dollar defamation case against the state of WA, with WA's highest court ruling a hearing examining whether he should be allowed to keep practising law can go ahead.
A man who allegedly pretended to be a police officer to pull over his stepdaughter before blindfolding her, driving her to a deserted bush area and stripping her naked and photographing her is refused bail.
Money was at the heart of a lot of the debate on the WA election hustings today, with barbs traded over hospital funding, the sale of Western Power and the spending of taxpayers' money in general.
The emergency services workers who saved the life of a paramedic critically injured and trapped in an ambulance that was crushed in a head-on crash, are among the winners of St John Community Heroes Awards.
The welfare of doctors at Perth's Princess Margaret Hospital is being ignored with some unable to take leave for three years, the Australian Medical Association says, but health officials reject the claims.
A group of Islamic leaders in Perth urges its followers not to vote for the Liberal Party in the state election following the party's preference deal with Pauline Hanson's One Nation.
Prosecutors downgrade charges against three men accused of kidnapping, robbing and killing Peta Fairhead, who was dumped outside a Perth hospital last year.
Perth-based mining company Fortescue Metals Group posts a big jump in profit to US$1.2 billion for the six months to the end of December, on the back of a surge in iron ore prices.
The family of a Victorian pearl diver who died off WA's north-west coast welcomes the scheduling of an inquest five years on, saying lives continue to be put at risk by alleged dubious safety practices.
Western Australia's struggling economy and high level of debt is likely to dominate tonight's leaders' debate, with Opposition Leader Mark McGowan considered the frontrunner.
