Kate Christian

Firefighters have spent the day battling multiple infernos in Western Australia, after lightning strikes sparked several blazes overnight.

Homeless people are threatened with fines and even jail time as councils crack down on those forced to sleep in car parks amid a nationwide housing crisis.

A woman has been seriously injured after being attacked by two of her Rottweilers at a home in a southern Perth suburb.

As COVID-19 sent shock waves around the world, a state of emergency was declared in Western Australia in March 2020. In the months that followed, our lives were drastically changed in ways previously unimaginable.

Your suburb-by-suburb guide to how much the average Perth household will save from the halving of the fuel excise tax  – and it's not as much as what was touted by the Morrison government.

Western Australia’s border reopening will set the stage for another year of solid growth in house prices in 2022 — and there’s more pain ahead for renters.

When Western Australia finally opens its doors to the rest of the world – potentially letting in the Omicron variant of COVID-19 – rapid antigen self-tests could form an important line of defence to prevent outbreaks in high-risk settings.

New advice to shorten the interval between doses of AstraZeneca will speed up the vaccination rollout in Canberra as young people like Kate Balharrie bring forward their appointments for their second jabs.