Two people are in police custody after occupying an offshore Woodside platform about 200 kilometres off Western Australia's coast to protest against the company's gas operations.
Mining magnate Andrew Forrest's Fortescue faces a renewed legal battle over a record $150.3 million native title compensation payout, with the WA government confirming it would appeal a landmark Federal Court judgement.
An operation by Elon Musk's SpaceX and the federal government successfully retrieves a rocket some 24 days after it landed in the Indian Ocean off Christmas Island.
WA Premier Roger Cook backs Labor's candidate in the hotly contested Secret Harbour by-election over comments she made five years ago about the party’s culture of silence on sexual harassment in the workplace.
WA Premier Roger Cook will take on the defence industries and tourism portfolios in a cabinet reshuffle, following the departure of longstanding minister Paul Papalia.
Accused murderer Simon Peter Carman spent much of the past decade isolating himself from many of his friends and family in Australia. It's in his rented room in Thailand that local police allege a gruesome murder occurred.
Australian Simon Peter Carman "lived his normal life", going out, washing his clothes and talking to neighbours after allegedly murdering a teenage girl and stuffing her body inside a suitcase in Thailand, police say.
