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.

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.

Callum Darch's car boot is full when he heads off on the 420-kilometre trip to see his parents in Perth.