The Latest Breaking News from Western Australia

Western Australia's daily local COVID-19 caseload has reached triple figures for the first time with 115 new infections, and at least 32 schools exposed.

The key freight link between Western Australia and the eastern states has been restored but supermarket shelves won't be restocked overnight.

Western Australia's premier says a new border reopening date will be announced in the next two weeks as the state records 48 new local COVID-19 cases.

Mark McGowan says an announcement on WA's border reopening will be made sometime this month as the state records 62 new COVID-19 cases, with 48 of them locally acquired.

Qantas will continue to run direct daily flights between Darwin and London until at least the end of June amid ongoing uncertainty about the reopening of the border to Western Australia.

Another 62 locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 are recorded in Western Australia, along with 13 cases linked to interstate travel, despite just 4,351 people being swabbed at PCR clinics yesterday.

More than half of eligible West Australians have received their third vaccine dose as the state posts a record 62 local COVID-19 cases.

It's been a shaky start to the year for Western Australia, with more than 100 earthquakes recorded in the state — and there are several reasons for that.

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As Western Australians wonder how the state's eventual border reopening might unfold, pundits often draw on the South Australian experience. But how comparable are the states and what bearing did SA have on Premier Mark McGowan's call to indefinitely delay the border opening?