The Latest Breaking News from Western Australia

Many workers who have moved to the WA tourist town are struggling to find affordable rental properties or share accommodation.

Last year’s record invasion devastated rural areas and this year’s bumper harvest is seeing mouse numbers increasing again

Australia's mighty #MeToo wave is piling pressure on mining and political leaders who are preparing to face a reckoning over sexual harassment scandals stretching from the arid Outback to Parliament House.

Western Australia is forecasting a $5.7 billion budget surplus for 2021/22 with Premier Mark McGowan championing one of the world's strongest economies.

Western Australia sets a fresh record with daily COVID case numbers, which represent almost a 40 per cent jump on Tuesday's figure, with about one in 40 now infected with the virus.

Hundreds of aged care workers in Queensland and Western Australia walk off the job in a stand for better pay and work conditions, but South Australian aged care staff remained diligently at work after the Fair Work Commission put off their strike until the day after the federal election.

Western Australia sets a new COVID record the day after St John recorded its third highest day of ambulance ramping, with more than a quarter of ambulances left waiting outside hospitals as emergency departments burst at the seams.

Aged care workers in Queensland and Western Australia have launched industrial action as part of a union push to improve pay and staffing in aged care homes.

Western Australia reports a new record in COVID-19 case numbers with another 10,394 infections, although hospitalisations remain steady and there have been no more deaths.