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An Australian woman is set to go on trial on drug smuggling charges after almost two years in a foreign jail, with her family holding out hope authorities will believe that she is the innocent victim of a complex love scam.

An end of an era is fast approaching as some of Perth Zoo's most beloved gentle giants prepare to move to their forever home, thousands of kilometres away.

The Australian mining company whose executives have been detained in Africa over a tax dispute have agreed to pay $US160 million ($242 million) in a bid to free them.

A Perth grandmother and Indigenous community leader has told a Japanese court she was "deceived", after she was found with almost two kilograms of methamphetamine in her luggage at Narita airport, near Tokyo.

Almost 1,000 cases of whooping cough have been reported in Western Australia this year, with national infection figures the highest since records began.

Australian woman Donna Nelson has been found guilty of trafficking drugs into Japan. Here is how the two-year saga unfolded and what happens next.

Tucked away on Perth's southern coastline is an industrial precinct that few outside the community would have reason to visit, but which is fast emerging as the new engine room of the state.

For decades, Western Australia has been keen to transcend its reputation as the world's quarry, and the government hopes a new project will help it do exactly that.

Neighbours who witnessed a deadly house fire that killed a young boy have spoken of their devastation as they tried to save the child's life.

Suzie Day-Davies can't be a blood donor herself, but she has volunteered her pet dog to help save lives of the furry kind.