Daryna Zadvirna

The restraining order against Kate's abusive ex-partner was cancelled after paperwork was sent to her old address. She's one of three women who say they've been re-traumatised while trying to obtain court-ordered protection from their domestic violence perpetrators.

Lawyers say the decision has exposed a possible legal fault in how documents were being lodged with Work Cover – the administrative government agency responsible for the workers compensation scheme.

A teenager who died while locked up in youth detention would still be alive if he wasn't removed from a specialised care program, the organisation who ran it says.

Homicide detectives charge a 49-year-old woman over the death of a man in the suburb of Maddington, in Perth's south-east.

A fly-in, fly-out worker lured women and teenagers online using dating apps like Sugar Daddy before drugging and sexually assaulting them at his home while filming them, a Perth court is told.

The former boss of a controversial juvenile detention facility – where a teenager fatally self harmed – admits not telling the truth at a Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) inquiry following his death.

Kylena Hill says she and her five children are soon to be homeless, while her violent ex-partner is out on bail for multiple, brutal attacks on her.

The former boss of WA's Department of Justice breaks down on the stand at the inquiry into the state's first juvenile death in custody, describing the treatment of some juvenile detainees by the department as "institutional abuse". WARNING: This story contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died.

The officer who was in charge on the night a teenager was found unresponsive in his cell at a controversial WA juvenile detention facility is excused from giving evidence at the inquest into the boy's death. WARNING: This story discusses incidents of self-harm and contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died.

Rockingham residents express alarm at the prospect of a radioactive waste facility at HMAS Stirling naval base on Garden Island, following a decision by the nuclear safety watchdog to approve a plan to prepare a site for one.

Health authorities are investigating claims two Perth sisters were served insect repellent instead of juice at a western suburbs restaurant.

As tensions simmer in Canberra over serious criminals keeping their Australian visas, figures show the tribunal that reviews those cases has been increasingly overturning cancellations for years in cases where someone's character is being questioned.

Maya says her stepfather sexually abused her as a teenager. She fled home after giving birth to his child, but a judge knocked back her plea to extend a restraining order against him.

The daughter of the man who shot Jennifer and Gretl Petelczyc dead in their own home feels police did not give her warnings enough attention — and domestic violence experts say Ariel Bombara is not alone in feeling let down.

A 12-year-old boy is recovering after being seriously injured when he became trapped in a bus door and dragged along the road.

Domestic and family violence is in the national spotlight — yet WA's community legal services say they're being forced to turn away women seeking help due to under-resourcing.

A man who was stabbed by a "radicalised" Perth teenager who was later shot dead by police responds to the attack, saying he's yet to come to terms with the ordeal.

Aaron Leyton Wumi will remain behind bars after being sentenced to four years' jail over a brutal attack on his girlfriend in the Perth CBD.

A 54-year-old man appears in court in Fremantle after allegedly murdering his mother at a home in Yangebup in Perth's south.

Western Australia is the only Australian state or territory which allows people to have pepper spray for self-protection, and there have been calls to legalise the substance country-wide in the wake of Bondi's stabbing attack.