Domestic violence rates continue to skyrocket in WA - with new police statistics revealing the number of assaults and threats against intimate partners has risen to a record high.
Sarah Steger
Senior police and civic security leaders barely batted an eye as residents spoke of their lived experiences and the frightening rise of petty crime during a packed public crime forum.
Caitlin Vinci
Two men convicted of murdering Indigenous teen Cassius Turvey face life sentences after the boy was fatally bashed with a metal pole in an after-school attack.
Aaron Bunch
A tragic house fire has claimed the lives of three children, devastating a family and sending a "ripple effect" through a shellshocked community.
Laine Clark
Former Test legspinner Stuart MacGill is facing the threat of jail time over his role in a $330,000 cocaine deal that led to his kidnapping.
Adelaide Lang
The young daughter of accused murderer Erin Patterson will continue her evidence into the death-cap mushroom-laced lunch that killed her relatives.
Tara Cosoleto
Restricting bail and increasing penalties do not work to reduce crime, legal experts say, as 'tough on crime' measures continue to sweep across Australia.
Keira Jenkins
Police are appealing for public assistance following a hit-and-run incident that seriously injured a boy, 11, in Melbourne’s southeast.
Georgie Kibel
Watch Polair footage that shows the frightening high-speed pursuit across Sydney that led to the arrest of three teenagers and a 12-year-old girl.
A car thief who ran over a young WA policeman after a high-speed chase repeatedly blamed the officer in his interview with detectives, saying the cop had wrongly stood ‘in the line of fire’.
Rebecca Le May
The homicide detective who led the investigation into the murder of Cassius Turvey expressed his relief at the two guilty verdicts, describing the result one of the highlights of his career.
HCF has been fined after a judge found the company misled customers with unfair life insurance contract terms.
Rachel Jackson
The rights holder to a popular fantasy books and films franchise has launched a new bid to to block an Australian vegan burger chain from trademarking its name.
Watch the moment a suspected arsonist sets himself on fire in what police believe was a targeted attack on a western Sydney barber shop.
A civil rights group is up in arms about a government move to review a core legal principle called ‘doli incapax’, designed to protect minors from unfair prosecution.
Duncan Evans
A former police officer intimidated his girlfriend into a state of extreme fear just a year after he was convicted of assaulting his former partner.
A man drank alcohol, inhaled laughing gas and had sex just metres away from where he knew a woman's dead body was concealed in a tool box, a jury has heard.
Rex Martinich
A pianist allegedly sacked after dedicating a piece to slain Gazan journalists has scored an early win in a legal dispute with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Callum Godde
A protester who pasted a massacre order made by a former governor against Indigenous Australians on a statue has suffered a defeat in court.
Alex Mitchell
The mother of a young boy who was murdered after school by men armed with metal poles has spoken out.
Emma Kirk
A stalking charge has been laid against a 48-year-old Mississippi man who crashed his vehicle through the front gate of Jennifer Aniston's Los Angeles home.
Andrew Dalton
A murdered Indigenous teen identified his killers before he "died for absolutely nothing", his mother says after a jury found three men guilty over the death.
A man charged with the murder of his flatmate – whose body was found stuffed in a large “body box” – has admitted to a gross detail during his trial.
Blake Antrobus
Police have issued a public appeal as it investigates the theft of firearms and ammunition at a semi-rural property in Deepdale this week.
Josephine Hingst
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