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A working pen gun, designed to look like a common permanent marker, and a homemade machine gun are among items seized by police during separate raids on outlaw motorcycle gang members.

Two new community initiatives offering the opportunity to borrow everything from chainsaws to party supplies are aiming to reduce waste and bring back the tradition of neighbourhood sharing.

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development says the chemical-free method has potential in urban and agricultural settings.

At 19-years-old Jonathon Akers had no family support and no way of getting around, leaving him with no job prospects — until the RYDE program picked him up.

Signs along the banks of Perth's main waterway warning people against fishing raise fresh concerns about the river's health and what's being done to protect it.

As the WA Government moves ahead with plans to help introduce a three-bin system to all metropolitan areas by 2025, one regional town has stepped up to show other councils how it's done.

Thousands of people are left without power after light rain combines with dust to trigger fires on electricity poles across Perth's metropolitan area.

The Town of Bassendean bans single-use plastics including straws and cups from events it organises or sponsors, and is writing to Coles to ask the supermarket to stop wrapping fruit and veg in plastic.

A 51-year-old woman becomes the first West Australian to be criminally convicted of unlawful wounding over a dog attack, after her two Staffordshire bull terriers savaged a nine-year-old girl at a Perth park, causing serious injuries.

Urban infill in Perth's inner suburbs is placing increasing pressure on public schools, and parents are concerned that green space is being sacrificed for extra classrooms.

A woman charged over a dog attack on a nine-year-old girl in Perth pleads not guilty.

The owner of two Staffordshire bull terriers that attacked a child, leaving her with injuries that required surgery, has been charged with unlawful wounding.

A man is charged after allegedly setting a car alight while his partner was inside the vehicle in Perth's eastern suburbs.

Starting as a small recreation ground in Perth's eastern suburbs, the Bassendean Oval has gone on to play a key role in Western Australia's love of AFL.

A man is charged after police discover a two-year-old child left locked in a car in East Perth in temperatures reaching 32 degrees Celsius.

WA's Model Railway Club searches for new ways to attract younger members to ensure its long-term survival.

Parents at Bassendean Primary School, in Perth's east, have stepped up their protest efforts to stop a car park being built on a section of the school's oval with a knit-in blocking construction work.

A bulldozer is already onsite, but it's not stopping parents at Bassendean Primary School in Perth's eastern suburbs from campaigning against part of the school oval being turned into a car park.

Having plants dug up and stolen from front gardens is on the increase, Perth residents say.

A bushfire in the eastern Perth suburbs of Bassendean and Ashfield is brought under control and no longer threatens homes.