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A Mandurah mum is calling for urgent changes to the way some private hospitals and doctors deal with voluntary assisted dying.

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A Mandurah mum is calling for urgent changes to the way some private hospitals and doctors deal with voluntary assisted dying.

Cassidy Mosconi

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CrimePremium‘Our love’: Tribute to surfers one year on

Perth brothers and their American friend, killed one year ago while surfing in Mexico, are being remembered by their loved ones.

Blair Jackson

The Terracotta Warriors exhibition will be coming to the WA Museum this June.

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Terracotta warriors to come to Perth in exclusive exhibition

Half of the objects will leave China for the first time and will feature in the largest museum exhibition ever staged in WA. 

Dylan Caporn

The tragedy happened at WA Salt Supply in North Coogee in June 2022.

WA News PremiumSalt refinery behind worker death used cardboard to fix belt

A local salt processing company has been fined $875,000 over the death of a worker at a North Coogee refinery in 2022.

Sarah Steger

Multiple people have been charged after police led a crackdown operation in North Beach on an ATV, dirt bike, and electric scooter ride-out event.

CrimePremiumCharges laid after cops crack down on dangerous ‘ride outs’

Several people have been charged in an operation targeting anti-social behaviour in North Beach ahead of an organised ‘ride-out’ involving ATVs, dirt bikes, electric bikes and electric scooters.

Artemisia Blythe

Perth brothers Callum, 33, and Jake, 31, vanished in Mexico near Ensenada in Baja California on April 27 last year.

CRIMEPremiumFamily devastated one year on from Robinson brothers’ murder

The girlfriend of Callum Robinson - who was allegedly murdered while on a surfing trip to Mexico alongside his brother Jake - says her ‘heart aches beyond words’ on the first anniversary of his disappearance.

Artemisia Blythe

The violence erupted after the pair had been cellmates at Hakea Prison for one week.

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Ex-prisoner allegedly blinded cellmate in brutal attack

A former Hakea prisoner has gone on trial after allegedly blinding his cellmate in one eye in a vicious, unwitnessed attack.

Rebecca Le May

Luke Timothy O’Diam, 29, was arrested a short time after a team of Gang Response and TRG officers boxed in the car as it travelled down the highway and brought it to a stop.

Crime PremiumMongols bikie arrested in wild chase after standoff with TRG

Police have charged a Mongols bikie with possessing a gun after a dramatic pursuit in Perth’s northern suburbs.

Sarah Steger

Ms Giuffre took her own life at her sprawling farm home in Neergabby, about 80km north of Perth, on Friday night.

WA newsGiuffre’s friend doubts royals will acknowledge tragic death

A friend of Virginia Giuffre says she does not expect Prince Andrew or the royal family to ‘rise to the occasion and be gracious’ in acknowledging her death.

Caleb Runciman, Shannon Hampton & Jessica Coates

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe meets Pope Francis in 2022.

Religion & BeliefPremiumPerth Archbishop hopes next Pope will be ‘man of unity’

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe said Saturday’s service was ‘very moving’ after more than 250,000 people from ‘all walks of life’ packed St Peter’s Square in Vatican City for Pope Francis’ funeral.

Caleb Runciman

Rabbi Shalom Coleman in 2018.

Religion & BeliefPremiumTributes for Australia’s oldest rabbi after he dies in Perth

‘For one person he really did a massive amount for this State’.

Sarah Steger

Voters in Canning and Pearce are the most decisive in WA. (Mick Tsikas, Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Federal election 2025VideoCommentsPremiumREVEALED: The WA seats with the most decisive voters

More than a fifth of voters in two key WA battleground seats have already had their say in the Federal election, after one week of booths opening across the country.

Dylan Caporn

WA police are searching for a person they believe may be able to help with the ongoing investigation into the 2021 O’Connor furniture store fire.

CrimeVideoPolice call for help solving suspicious 2021 store fire

Arson squad officers have released CCTV footage of a person who may be able to help with an investigation into a suspicious furniture store fire that caused $500,000 worth of damage in 2021.

Artemisia Blythe

WorkSafe are investigating after a man was crushed to death at a building in Welshpool overnight.

Disaster and EmergencyPremiumFamily discover man after being crushed to death by gate

The horrific incident occurred on Saturday night when a 65-year-old man is understood to have been leaving a building at the corner of Welshpool Road and Ewing Street.

Caleb Runciman

Perth Mint chief operating officer Dion Paunich with a real (left) and fake (right) gold bullion. Riley Churchman

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Alarming surge in West Aussies buying fool’s gold

Surging gold prices have hit the Perth Mint with record demand — and a huge spike in fraudsters trying to cash in. Here’s everything you need to know before parting with your cash for gold.

Joe Spagnolo

Annette Young is one of more than a hundred dental patients impacted by the death of dentist David Hurst.

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The patients left in pain after dental practice’s collapse

More than 130 dental patients — many in pain and discomfort — are stuck in limbo following the collapse of a leading Perth dental practice in which $7.1 million was syphoned out by its now-deceased owner.

John Flint

Chris Bowen hailed the growth. NewsWire / David Swift

AustraliaAustralia’s rooftop solar output surges 20 per cent

The country’s rooftop solar output spiked by 20 per cent over the summer period, according to new data, now accounting for a record cut of the nation’s electricity grid.

Liam Beatty

The crashes occurred within 50m of each other.

Disaster & EmergencyPremiumFour taken to hospital after spate of crashes in Bentley

The people were injured in two crashes which occurred within 50 metres of each other on a busy stretch of Albany Highway.

Oliver Lane

Fremantle MP Josh Wilson has maintained his stance on nuclear-powered submarines at an awkward press conference with Resources Minister Madeleine King.

Federal election 2025PremiumWilson stands fast on AUKUS opposition despite King talk-up

Fremantle MP Josh Wilson has maintained his stance on nuclear-powered submarines at an awkward press conference with Resources Minister Madeleine King.

Joe Spagnolo

A Sri Lankan pizza shop owner who dodged deportation for threatening two men with a gun over a drug debt again faces the prospect of having his visa revoked.

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Drug dealer faces deportation after second WA jail term

A Sri Lankan pizza shop owner who dodged deportation for threatening two men with a gun over a drug debt again faces the prospect of having his visa revoked, after being sent back to prison in WA for dealing.

Rebecca Le May

Police have charged a Glendalough man accused of a fatal hit-and-run in Wembley on Thursday night. 

CrimePremiumMan charged over fatal Wembley hit-and-run

An elderly man was run down in the incident before being rushed to Royal Perth Hospital with critical injuries, where he later died. 

Oliver Lane

The week of campaigning was shortened by Anzac Day, where Peter Dutton visited Townsville RSL. Richard Dobson / Newswire

ElectionClock ticking for Dutton after chaotic week

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has just a week left to convince Australian voters he is the best fit to become the country’s next Prime Minister.

Nathan Schmidt

Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, has died, her family told American news outlet NBC News. Supplied

UpdatedPremiumAndrews accuser Virginia Giuffre dies

Virginia Giuffre, who accused both Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, has died aged 41.

Blake Antrobus and Emma Kirk

Virginia Giuffre, a prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse has died by suicide.

CrimeFamily’s ‘grave loss’ as Virginia Giuffre takes her own life

The prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse has died by suicide in Western Australia with her family paying tribute to the ‘fierce warrior’.

Hannah Cross and Oliver Lane