Keane Bourke

Police are seeking the public's help to locate a woman who they say assaulted a toddler being held by her mother at a shopping centre in Perth's inner south.

Two ballet teachers from different schools testify at the trial of a couple accused of starving their teenage daughter, telling the court of their alarm at the girl's gaunt appearance, and their failed attempts to raise the alarm with the parents.

The family members of an Aboriginal woman shot dead by a police officer who was then acquitted of her murder urge a coroner to consider that the death could have been avoidable.

WA Premier Roger Cook has called on Port Hedland councillor Adrian McRae to quit after quoting a Nazi and attacking Western media in a recent controversial Russian state television appearance.

The Fair Work Ombudsman starts legal action against the CFMEU and one of its officials after he allegedly climbed a 50-metre crane on a Perth work site, preventing it from operating.

Overcrowding forces dozens of prisoners at two of Perth's largest jails to sleep on mattresses on the floor in "Dickensian" conditions.

A 17-year-old girl was so severely malnourished doctors feared she could die, but her father dismissed their concerns as "crazy", a Perth court has heard.

WA's P-plate drivers will be banned from carrying more than one passenger in their first six months behind the wheel, under changes announced by the State Government.

The mother of a severely malnourished girl accused of starving her thought fellow students at her daughter's dance school were "overweight", and

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