Bethany Hiatt

An elegant home by custom builder Zorzi has been crowned Perth home of the year at the prestigious Housing Industry Association awards.

Despite growing cost of living pressures, West Australians dipping into their pockets for Telethon have shown themselves to be even more generous than ever this year.

Most three and four-year-old kids are not exercising or sleeping enough and spend too much time on screens, an alarming global study has revealed.

Outraged parents who claimed their kids suffered excessive sun exposure at a school faction carnival with no shade have pushed a primary school to look into shifting the event to earlier in the year.

A play by Australia’s only winner of the Nobel prize for literature and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet are among works to be cut from a list of drama texts recommended for Year 11 and 12 literature classes.

A primary school canteen in Perth’s north has refused to serve one student for more than a year because of a bizarre quarrel with his mother that even high-level Education Department bureaucrats can’t resolve.

Another cancer patient who has experienced the indignity of spending the night in a cold and draughty hospital corridor has stepped forward to share her story.

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One shining positive to emerge from a report on 15-year-old students’ experiences of schooling is that they value their teachers’ help with maths lessons.

A Perth-based cyber safety expert has backed moves proposed by one Australian state to ban children from social media.