A mother who stabbed her teenage daughter’s secret boyfriend after catching them post-coitus in her Parkwood home believed he was an intruder, her lawyer says.
Rebecca Le May
A coroner has concluded ‘we will never know’ if police would have been able to stop Lynn Cannon from being brutally murdered by her estranged husband had officers arrived at the scene earlier.
Shannon Hampton
Wesfarmers-owned Kmart has expressed its disappointment over a fresh legal action alleging some of the retailer’s products may have been sourced from suppliers linked to forced labour in China.
Cheyanne Enciso
A teenage e-motorbike rider accused of fatally hitting a woman walking in a park has been granted bail on the condition that he does not drive an e-rideable or motorbike.
Caitlin Vinci
A 47-year-old man from Hovea has been charged with six counts of careless driving causing death after a horror Christmas day crash in Greenmount that left six people seriously injured.
A road train driver cut a corner and crashed into a motorcycle, leaving the driver with life-threatening injuries and the passenger with bodily harm.
Tegan Guthrie
An Albany man accused of causing the death of another man in a serious crash on Albany Highway in Narrikup earlier this year has faced court for the first time.
Jacki Elezovich
The victim first met the former police officer when he attended her unit with another officer to investigate welfare concerns for her missing flatmate, the court was told.
Charlton Hart
The man is already serving jail time for sexually abusing his five-year-old granddaughter.
Melissa Sheil
A woman who pocketed $37,000 from people who donated to a GoFundMe after falsely claiming she was battling cancer has had her sentencing delayed again.
Caleb Runciman
A 35-year-old Geraldton woman has been fined $10,000 and banned from owning animals for three years after leaving two dogs confined in her Beachlands home without food or water for several weeks.
Josephine Hingst
A 28-year-old Australian man who was found with more than 2kg of cocaine at an Airbnb in Northbridge has copped a substantial jail term, with a court hearing he was to be paid $50,000.
Local councils are up in arms over moves to shield miners from land rates, saying the Cook Government has put the sector ‘ahead of communities’.
A father has been jailed for 3½ years after pleading guilty to indecent dealing and sexual penetration of his daughter when she was under 13 years of age and the family was living in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Neil Watkinson
An Estonian fly-in fly-out worker is behind bars after drunkenly attacking a man outside a Geraldton pub, leaving the one-punch victim so traumatised he barely goes out.
Jenny Schon & Rebecca Le May
An Esperance truck driver accused of dangerous driving that caused the deaths of a couple in a crash on South Coast Highway earlier this year has faced court for the first time in Albany.
The 19-year-old was fatally struck by a ‘sea container drawbridge ramp’ which weighed about 250kg.
He never even had a name. ‘Baby Burton’ was the only way authorities could refer to Monique Ellen Burton’s sixth child, born in secret and described by the troubled woman as looking ‘like a doll’.
Mineral Resources is pushing to pry open a private agreement between Chevron and the State Government’s Pilbara Ports Authority as part of rolling stoush over disputed levies.
Simone Grogan
A mother who repeatedly lied about her children suffering illnesses, including cancer, subjected one of them to invasive procedures and had her own breasts needlessly removed.
A man accused of arming himself and smashing through the front doors of a residential home and a gym, making threats to kill and assaulting multiple people, has faced court on a host of charges.
Workers noticed a discrepancy in the amount of drugs at the station.
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: A mother who concealed a pregnancy by pretending she had bloating from a terminal illness gave birth while her partner was sleeping and hid the baby behind a sofa.
The worker often worked past midnight, with the business paying him a flat rate of $20 per hour without superannuation — including on public holidays and weekends.
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