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A WA judge finds police acted unlawfully in detaining a man in July 2023, leading to him being allowed to go free despite being found to be in possession of methylamphetamine. 

A 15-year-old boy killed as he made his way home from playing basketball is being mourned as police investigate the fatal stabbing of two children in Melbourne's outer-west on Saturday night. 

A fire that gutted a shopping centre in Perth's inner north-east is deemed to be non-suspicious, after authorities reviewing CCTV initially mistook the reflection of a car's windscreen for a molotov cocktail.

WA police commissioner Col Blanch says police "need to be better" after a constable admitted ignoring a warning that a detainee was going to kill himself, then laughed when he did.

The WA corruption watchdog is reviewing police conduct over an incident where officers twice shoved a man to the ground before tasering him on a Kalgoorlie street.

US aluminium giant Alcoa made inaccurate or misleading claims in an advertisement about its rehabilitation of the forests it mines in, Australia's advertising watchdog finds.

The WA Premier condemns the behaviour of a WA Police constable who dismissed a detainee's threat of suicide and then laughed about his death in custody.

The ABC has obtained a voice recording of a Western Australia police officer laughing about the suicide of an Aboriginal prisoner in Kalgoorlie.

The ABC has obtained a voice recording of a WA police officer laughing about the suicide of an Aboriginal prisoner. It comes as new data shows the state has the highest rates of Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia. 

Former WA senator Linda Reynolds has called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to apologise for the government's handling of the alleged rape of her former staffer, after what she described as four-and-a-half years of "hell".

A community group is accusing the WA Government of "spinning" the results of public feedback on a controversial proposal for a community hub and racetrack in Perth.

The mother of a newborn baby boy who was found dead in a stormwater drain in suburban Perth on Monday is charged with concealing his birth.

A former early childhood teacher who has worked in several states and territories says she quit the profession after working in Western Australia.

Police say a woman aged in her 30s is assisting them with inquiries into the death of a newborn baby whose body was found by maintenance workers in a storm drain in suburban Perth on Monday afternoon.

A patient caught up in the immense pressure being placed on WA hospitals says her planned surgery being cancelled has put her under significant stress and eroded her trust in the health system.

Police say a baby whose body was found in a stormwater drain by workers in suburban Perth was a newborn boy who was thought to have been placed there in recent days.

US aluminium giant Alcoa's proposed expansions to its mining operations near Perth could lead to the release of three years' worth of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions — in Australia and downstream internationally — over their lifetime, documents show.

Bullsbrook residents whose homes are being connected to scheme water after groundwater supplies were contaminated with PFAS say the Department of Defence won't replace their pipes and water systems. 

Three shootings at businesses in suburban Perth have put police on high alert, as detectives probe potential links to organised crime.

Allegations of prisoners eating guinea pigs they took from an animal shelter while out on a supervised work program are being investigated by WA's Department of Corrective Services.

Police failed to act quickly enough on the escalating risk posed by an estranged husband to his wife, who he brutally stabbed to death after she went to his Perth home to sign some papers, a coronial inquest finds.

Experts urge people to get vaccinated against the flu, after the death of a little girl from the virus in Perth.

After three years, a national outcry, and the sentencing of her son's murderers, Mechelle Turvey is still a force for change.

Three men convicted over the killing of Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey have being sentenced in the WA Supreme Court, as well as two other offenders.

Almost three years after he was killed, the two men who murdered 15-year-old Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey are set to be sentenced.