Perth’s bumper season of major events and direct airline routes has propelled the city to boast Australia’s fullest hotels, with occupancy rates climbing to near 80 per cent last year.
Dylan Caporn
Thousands of homes across Perth had power cut on Monday night as the city experienced scorching temperatures.
Kellie Balaam
A FIFO worker accused of a shocking one-punch attack that left a Perth father fighting for his life allegedly pushed the man’s wife to the ground first so he could land the devastating blow.
Emily Moulton
Lives and buildings, including a small airstrip, north of Esperance are under immediate threat as firefighters battle an out of control bushfire.
Temperatures across Western Australia have soared through the afternoon with parts of the State seeing the mercury go past 49C.
Labor has turned public transport into an election issue, with Premier Roger Cook challenging the Liberals to back the Government’s flat metropolitan fare of $2.80 ahead of the March 8 poll.
The family of the driver who deliberately drove on the wrong side of the road and killed four people, including himself, have offered their condolences ‘for families involved in this heartbreaking tragedy’.
Caleb Runciman
Meg Nicolson is 75 and has been disabled since she was 17. She has not let it hold her back and has travelled the world three times — but a flight back home to Perth from Brisbane has left her ‘distressed’.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Passengers were delayed for two hours because of the disruption.
Hayley Taylor
Surf Life Savers closed the beaches just before 10.30am.
Ben McClellan and Taylor Renouf
WA councils have been asked to sign a gag order in exchange for vital biosecurity information to fight the invasive polyphagous shot-hole borer.
Once a pine plantation, this family-orientated suburb has become one of the most highly prized locations south of the river.
Caitlin Vinci
In December, the City of Stirling’s Beach Services team performed 374 rescues - more than they typically perform in an entire year.
In its annual ranking, UK broadcaster BBC has named WA the 8th best place in the world to visit.
A woman has been charged with allegedly trying to go through a boarding gate for a flight without a valid ticket.
Claire Sadler
Over the past two years, Perth Airport has focused on recovering and expanding international flights suspended when WA’s borders were closed in 2020.
Sean Smith
The blaze was contained and control by about 7.30pm, with firefighters still on the scene mopping up.
Jessica Evensen
Perth dog owners are demanding an $8 treat be recalled after it splintered inside their pets.
Taylor Renouf
Emergency services were called about 3am following reports of an unresponsive man.
Authorities won’t say if they know who was responsible or if they have been able to track the person down.
Harriet Flinn
A Perth security firm is expected to face court next month over allegations it deliberately underpaid dozens of its workers to the tune of almost $1 million.
Perth rental prices increased at almost twice the rate of the national capital city average in 2024 forcing more people to live in share houses, data has revealed.
Oliver Lane
A woman accused of stabbing a police officer in the face and neck with a pen and narrowly missing his eye during a violent rampage at Perth Airport will spend the next fortnight behind bars.
The 2013-founded troupe joins the cavalcade of this year’s Fringe World acts featuring a program of more than 550 shows across comedy, music, circus, cabaret, theatre and dance.
Tanya MacNaughton
