Family violence advocates call for greater awareness of adolescent violence in the home and more specialist support after a 16-year-old Perth boy was charged with murdering his mother and attempting to kill his sister.
Major planning changes will allow more Perth home owners to subdivide their properties in a bid to boost housing supply as the city continues to fall short of its infill target.
The "diabolical" City of Perth should be merged with its neighbouring council, a WA government minister has claimed, describing the "pettiness, infighting, immaturity" by elected members as "galling."
Despite assurances to the contrary, WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti has conceded it would be difficult for the government to stick to the $217.5 million budget for the Perth Park project.
Roger Cook welcomes the federal budget's focus on housing, but he's less than thrilled about NDIS changes and the funding of infrastructure and aged care.
Six passengers from a cruise ship at the centre of the deadly hantavirus outbreak are "in good health", as the Australian government remains hopeful it will finalise plans to repatriate them within 48 hours.
Roger Cook criticises Alcoa's environmental record for being "not at the level we expect", after the US mining giant agreed to pay $55 million for clearing a native jarrah forest in WA's south without approval.
A "judgement call" about a permanent commercial fishing ban for demersal species went further than the advice handed to her, WA's Fisheries Minister Jackie Jarvis says.
While many West Australians were competing for parking spots at beaches on their holidays, Basil Zempilas latched onto two hot topics on which to challenge the government — the demersal fishing ban and WA's illicit tobacco trade.
The new role of Western Australia local government inspector Tony Brown includes the ability to send in monitors — as well as legal and financial experts — to stamp out any early signs of trouble.
