Western Australia

WA police are refusing to provide Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney with a report on the cold case review into the unsolved murder of his wife, a Supreme Court hearing his defamation action against the state is told.

A 32-year-old man is accused of stealing a car with a three-year-old boy asleep in the back from outside an East Victoria Park home, with the child later found safe in the dumped vehicle.

The Karen forests, isolated by decades of civil unrest, contain some of the most iconic species of endangered mammals in the world.

Western Australia has had its wettest summer on record and fewer hot days than usual as tropical weather headed south.

Mergers and acquisition in Australian mining industry are up by volume, down on value as coal prices rise and sellers look for better price.

Lip reading is one of a number of skills that helps people with hearing loss get out into the hearing world — but it doesn't come easy.

A North Queensland program that inspires Indigenous girls to pursue careers in science is being extended to Western Australia thanks to a grant from Australian surfing legend Layne Beachley.

At least one in three young people in detention in Western Australia suffers from foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, according to findings from an Australian-first study.

There are signs of hope for a population of quokkas, a marsupial endemic to Western Australia, after it was largely wiped out by a fire.

A remote sensor camera picks up footage of a quokka joey in the Northcliffe fire zone, bringing joy to conservationists who feared for the population after the 2015 bushfire in WA's South West.

Queensland Reds winger Eto Nabuli scores a hat-trick of tries, but it is not enough to stop his side suffering a 26-19 Super Rugby loss to the Western Force in Perth on Thursday night.

Supporters of Donald Trump are more likely to believe what he says, and even after they are shown it is not true, they still want to vote for him, research shows.

A man who shot his girlfriend using a cartridge bearing her name and stole drugs from her as she lay dying in a West Perth car park is sentenced to at least 20 years' jail.

The death of around 100 people during the Japanese air raid on Broome is still impacting families of victims and survivors 75 years later.

Road upgrades, Lisa Scaffidi, and the arts get a mention on the campaign trail, as Mark McGowan reiterates his promise to sack Perth City Council and both parties make further funding commitments.

Paul Holmes à Court's company, Heytesbury Pty Ltd, buys 10 per cent of Australia's largest live export company, Wellard.

The Barnett Government tries to intensify pressure on WA Labor to have its election promises analysed and costed by state Treasury, but Mark McGowan is standing firm in his opposition.

Even from across the globe in London Lloyd Rayney has been recognised, his multi-million-dollar defamation trial hears, as the Perth barrister reveals the stress at being named the "prime and only suspect" in his wife's murder.

Scientific and fishing communities are calling for more research into the dangers posed to marine life by seismic surveying, as Western Australia's coast is combed for offshore gas projects.

A Hong Kong man caught with more than 300 kilograms of methylamphetamine — the largest seizure of the drug in Western Australia — will have to spend at least 18 years behind bars.

Mining engineer graduates are being snapped up by an industry hungry for talent to support growth coming from technology and renewable energy deployment.

Taking in WA's coal mining heartland, green stretches of the south-west popular with hippies and tree-changers, farmland, and parts of Bunbury and Australind, the diverse seat of Collie Preston will be a close race.

Augusta police are investigating the random shooting of a three-week-old calf in WA's south-west.

The body of a man who disappeared while kayaking on the Murchison River in Western Australia's Mid West is found about six kilometres west of where he capsized.