Alice Angeloni

A coronial inquiry is examining the circumstances leading up to an Aboriginal woman known as JC being fatally shot by a police officer in Geraldton in 2019.

A policewoman who saw a fellow officer fatally shoot an Aboriginal woman with known mental health issues tells a coronial inquiry additional training was unlikely to have prevented the victim's death.

Indigenous woman JC was shot and killed by police while walking in Geraldton armed with a knife. An inquest has heard the officer who fired his gun did not follow use of force policies.

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains the name and image of a person who has died.

Aboriginal leaders in Geraldton are calling for cultural change within WA Police following a week of coronial hearings into the fatal shooting of a First Nations woman in the Midwest.

WA's Road Safety Commissioner says there has been a spike in deaths on regional WA roads this year.

With regional councils forced to deliver a steadily growing number of services they're hoping a federal inquiry will deliver greater revenue to support them.

A woman is in a stable condition after she was bitten by a shark at the Abrolhos Islands on Tuesday afternoon.

On a still winter morning, Theona Councillor greets a group of guests in bushland near a natural spring.

An Australian minerals company wants to clear about 1,000 hectares of threatened native banksia woodlands for two WA mining projects.