Passengers are being let back into Perth Airport after an emergency prompted the evacuation of the busy complex Thursday afternoon. Passengers were forced from international terminal, T1, about 3.55pm when smoke was detected. A spokesperson for the airport said the source of the issue was a refrigeration unit at a retail outlet. Watch the latest…
A man has died in a serious crash on a bend in the highway in the South West region of Western Australia. Police say a white Ford Falcon ute was driving south on South Western Hwy in Boyanup at about 7.20pm on Wednesday. At the same time, a Kenworth truck towing a trailer was driving…
Police have cordoned off a suburban street after a man was found dead at a home in Perth’s southern suburbs. The 46-year-old was discovered at an address on Carden Dr in Cannington after emergency services were called about 1pm on Wednesday. It is unclear how the man died or if police are treating the death…
WA Police is investigating vision of tow trucks cutting across Perth freeway traffic in an apparent race to a job. In the clip captured on the Mitchell Fwy in West Leederville about 8am on Tuesday, a truck driver slices across multiple lanes and narrowly avoids an exit barrier. A second truck follows closely behind down…
Western Australia’s energy grid is set for a $3 billion revamp as the state seeks to boost its exports and jobs. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told a business breakfast in Perth on Tuesday the funding would come from the Rewiring the Nation scheme. The national scheme would provide $20 billion in equity for modernising the…
A Perth football club has been caught up in a bizarre Facebook Marketplace scam that resulted in a shipping container full of its gear being sneakily offloaded. Brazen thieves advertised the blue cargo box on social media and when an interested buyer arrived at John Dunn Memorial Park in the city’s southeast with a truck…
A WA-based woman is unable to walk after what she thought was a simple muscle strain turned out to be a potentially fatal bacterial infection. New Zealand native Karen Stevens, who has lived in Australia for eight years, began feeling unwell late last month. She put it down to a strained neck muscle, which she…
An elderly man who was allegedly assaulted in a Perth car park in a suspected road rage attack has broken his silence, as a man is charged over the incident. Alan White, 91, drove into a carpark on Westview Parade, on Friday, August 25 at around 4.45pm and parked his car. When he got out…
Police are investigating after a 91-year-old man was assaulted in a car park. The elderly man drove into a carpark on Westview Parade, Wannanup, WA on Friday, August 25 at around 4.45pm and parked his car. When he got out of the vehicle, a motorcyclist started to verbally abuse him and then physically assaulted him….
A brave young Perth athlete has been left unable to eat, talk or walk as he battles a rare brain tumour only discovered when his mother was encouraged to trust her intuition. Archie Ferris was thrust into a fight for his life in June after doctors identified a large mass and huge amount of fluid…
Cricket officials have come out swinging over the decision to exclude stand-up urinals from a multimillion redevelopment at Perth’s WACA Ground. The plan will leave the northern half of the ground, where most of the work is happening, with only cubicles in men’s bathrooms, unlike most sporting grounds which have communal urinals. WA Cricket Association…
An Uber Eats driver has been bashed and had his vehicle stolen during a violent carjacking carried out by three juveniles — the youngest just 13 — in Perth’s north, police claim. Authorities allege the assault was the start of a rampage that ended more than 420 kilometres away in WA’s Great Southern region and…
A North Perth daycare facility has warned parents to test their kids and watch for symptoms after a child was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Parents were told this week their little ones had been exposed to TB, but authorities are confident the case is an isolated one and not cause for panic. Symptoms from the infectious…
Hundreds of workers have been left without jobs following the collapse of WA company, Advanced Traffic Management. The roadworks management firm has operated for over two decades but left staff shocked and in tears on Wednesday after revealing via text message it had gone into liquidation and that they were no longer required. “Everyone just…
A teenager has died in a single-vehicle car accident south of Perth. Police say a silver Holden Commodore was driving south along Warnbro Sound Ave near Halliburton Ave, Port Kennedy, when the car left the road and hit a tree. The 18-year-old male driver suffered critical injuries. He was taken to Rockingham Hospital where he…
A teenage football talent from the same club as one-punch victim Danny Hodgson has been left in a spinal brace and fearing for his sporting future following a savage and unprovoked attack in Perth’s northern suburbs. Louis Hadfield, 17, was walking home along Scarborough Beach Rd in Scarborough just before midnight on Saturday after enjoying…
Teens trespassing on rides and slides at a Perth water park have prompted a warning from police. Adventure World is currently closed for the winter but it is now proving an enticing playground for another type of thrill-seeker. Local police took several reports last week about people breaking in and they want it to stop….
When Ursula Bouzaid suffered a heart attack four months after giving birth, it came as a complete surprise because she considered herself healthy — but the impact on her will be life-long. “Out of the blue, I got very severe chest pain and I became very sick, I was vomiting profusely. The chest pain was…
A Perth man has escaped injury after a car ploughed through his living room, narrowly missing him as he gamed on Friday morning. Thomas Trenaman was stunned by a “massive boom” about 6.10am. That sound was a silver Mercedes wiping out a brick wall, large tree and street sign before crashing into his home on…
A Fremantle man has been charged over the alleged assault of a crew member on a flight from Perth to Karratha, in WA’s Pilbara region. The 62-year-old accused allegedly became aggressive after being refused alcohol about 5pm Thursday. WA Police said Qantas cabin staff and passengers tried to calm the man before he headed to…
Locals are fuming over a “terrifying” proposal to ban vehicles from one of WA’s most popular stretches of coastline. Lancelin, 125 kilometres north of Perth, every year welcomes thousands of visitors keen to take their four-wheel drives and trail bikes onto the region’s famous white sand. But the Shire of Gingin is considering cutting access…
A fishing trip has turned to tragedy after a man was killed in a boating accident off the coast of Alkimos in Perth’s north, police have confirmed. An emergency rescue effort was triggered when another boat reported the overturned vessel 20km from shore about 11.45am on Friday. Two of the boaties were able to be…
A man has died in a car accident on a highway 480km east of Perth. WA Police say a black Jeep Grand Cherokee was travelling east on the Great Eastern Highway, Mount Palmer at 10.25am on Thursday when the driver lost control of the vehicle, causing it to roll. The 56-year-old male driver sustained critical…
A man has been seriously injured after stopping at a road rage dispute on a busy Perth highway where police allege a driver pulled out a knife. Authorities say a verbal altercation erupted when the drivers of a Hino tow truck and a Fiat Ducato got out of their cars on Great Eastern Hwy in…
Billionaire Gina Rinehart tasked Price Waterhouse with a confidential project to undo her mining pioneer father’s legacy and boost her shareholding in the family company at her children’s expense, a court has been told. Hancock Prospecting’s executive chair described Lang Hancock’s 1988 plan to transfer a 33 per cent share of that company into a…
A man has been charged with a string of serious offences after allegedly exposing himself in public at several Perth shopping centres. Child Abuse Squad detectives began investigating after numerous reports of a person exposing himself and committing obscene acts in department stores across several months. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: WA men accused of using…
It looks like the more the merrier when it comes to large lotto wins. Just a week after a team of 50 hospital workers scored big, a new WA syndicate has shared in some huge spoils. The winning group of 15 players will split a division one lotto prize worth $2.69 million from Saturday’s draw….
Six teens have been dramatically arrested after ditching a car suspected to be stolen when they were boxed in by police on Sunday night. A 17-year-old boy is now facing a series of driving charges and has a date in court following a police operation that spanned several Perth suburbs. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Teen…
A father has suffered serious burns to about 70 per cent of his body after a barbecue explosion at a home in Perth’s northeast. Authorities including fire crews, paramedics and police raced to the Dayton property just after midday on Sunday following reports a man had been burnt trying to start a barbecue. WATCH THE…
Cash-strapped businesses are buckling under pressure from the Australian Taxation Office and other creditors as the insolvency trickle turns into a “surge”. That’s the verdict from comparison site Insolvency Australia, which found the number of businesses going bust has risen significantly in the past year. Companies appointing administrators, liquidators and insolvency firms increased by 57…
Emergency crews have raced to contain raging boat and jetski fires in Perth’s southern suburbs. A 15-metre long boat and the smaller recreation watercraft went up in flames at the Port Coogee Marina on Thursday morning, with the alert raised just before 11am. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Boat and jet ski go up in flames…
A man’s death in a Western Australia carpark is being investigated as a possible homicide. The 56-year-old man was found injured and unresponsive at an industrial carpark in Kwinana Beach, in Perth’s south, about 6.10pm on Thursday. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Homicide investigation launched over Kwinana Beach death Watch the latest news and stream for…
A woman has been rushed to hospital in a serious condition after being struck by a car in Perth’s western suburbs. The 69-year-old was hit as she tried to cross Stirling Hwy near Jarrad St in Peppermint Grove just before 8pm, Thursday. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Pedestrian suffers head injuries crossing Stirling Hwy. Watch the…
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains images of someone who has died. WA’s Premier says he will do his best to be available for an emergency summit on domestic violence, called following the deaths of two young mums in Perth. Tiffany Woodley, 35, was allegedly murdered by her former…
A baby has been found “safe and well” following a frantic search on Thursday. An alert issued by WA Police said “concerns are held for the welfare” of the five-week-old and it was “extremely important” they locate his father who was last seen in Perth’s south about midday. Thankfully the search was resolved quickly, with…
A popular West Australian bakery has gone under owing the Australian Taxation Office $2 million. Barretts Bakery, which won over customers with its bread, pastries and cakes, was recently placed under the control of Worrells’ principal Mervyn Kitay. The administrator was appointed on July 27, a notice published by ASIC revealed. Watch the latest news…
Extraordinary bodycam vision of a police takedown on a Perth freeway has been released by a judge after the armed bikie who sparked it all was jailed. Joshua Gomez was desperate and dangerous when he sprinted from officers called to a disturbance on Stirling St in the CBD on the morning of September 27, 2021….
A foul-mouthed road rage attack involving a learner driver part-way through her first-ever lesson behind the wheel has been captured on camera. The vision showed a woman blast Perth L-plater Aleyna Helvaci before throwing a traffic cone towards the car the 16-year-old was driving. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Teen speaks on Victoria Park road rage….
A former BHP worker has been jailed for more than five years after raping a colleague at a mining camp after a night of heavy drinking. Ryan John Zabaznow, 37, was found guilty in May of sexual penetration without consent in Newman in Western Australia’s Pilbara region on November 18, 2020. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE:…
Fire has forced more than a dozen kids to be evacuated from a Perth childcare centre. The blaze started in the laundry at Milestones Early Learning on Heath Rd in Kalamunda just before 12.30pm. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Kids evacuated from childcare centre after fire takes hold. Watch the latest news and stream for free…
A nail salon owner has been left in “shock” following news a suspicious blaze had torn through her popular business in Perth. Fire crews raced to Sculptured by Laura-Jane on Walcott St in Mount Lawley after a fire erupted just after 2am, Friday. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Fire rips through Sculptured by Laura-Jane on Walcott…
A Perth woman has revealed the emotional story used by scammers that duped her out of thousands of dollars while she tried to buy a car on Facebook Marketplace. Violet Saxton paid $4550 for a vehicle she never received and now believes did not actually exist, after coming across an online ad for a Mazda…
Teenagers under the age of 16 will be able to terminate pregnancies without a parent or guardian’s permission when a new abortion bill is put to the Western Australian parliament this week. The state is the only Australian jurisdiction where a child must tell their parent or guardian that they intend to have an abortion,…
A West Australian toddler initially told he had a virus caught at daycare is now in an agonising wait for life-saving treatment after doctors realised he had been struck down by something far more sinister. Tommy Bacon’s parents took the Perth boy to the GP when they noticed a rash forming on his body, but…
A surfer who survived a shocking shark attack that was caught on camera has revealed how he mounted the animal and punched it during a stunning fight for his life. Jack Frost, 24, was sitting on his board in the swell at Boat Ramp, a popular Margaret River break in WA’s South West, on the…
West Australian Premier Roger Cook has blasted three “extremist” climate activists over a thwarted plan to allegedly protest outside the home of the chief of Woodside Energy. Counter-terrorism police were waiting for Jesse Noakes, 34, Gerard Mazza, 31, and a 19-year-old woman when they allegedly arrived with an ABC camera crew at chief executive Meg…
A WA mother says she is no closer to overcoming the grief caused by a Broome chopper crash that killed her daughter three years ago. Mandurah girl Amber Jess Millar, 12, was a passenger in a Robinson R44 that had taken off for a scenic flight of the Kimberley but broke up in mid-air and…
Custodial officers at Western Australia’s troubled Banksia Hill detention centre will get a 12 per cent pay rise to reflect the difficulties of working at the state’s youth facilities. The WA justice department on Tuesday announced the annual base salary for ordinary officers at Banksia Hill and other youth detention centres would be between $79,156…
The resources industry has been warned it could face tougher restrictions if sexual harassment issues in the workplace aren’t addressed. WA Minister for Mines and Petroleum Bill Johnston said the state government was committed to driving cultural change and it would not rule out new regulations if it doesn’t happen. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: FIFO…
A driver has been killed when his vehicle hit a tree after veering off a highway about 40 kilometres east of Perth. A 58-year-old man was behind the wheel of the Great Wall travelling east along Great Eastern Hwy when the utility left the road and struck a tree near Chidlow Rd in Sawyers Valley….