Keane Bourke

As the threat of bushfires, cyclones and floods increases over the months ahead, the Communications Minister has written to the big three telcos to put them on notice.

State and territory leaders say the Commonwealth's offer for the next five years of hospital funding would leave them billions out of pocket, claiming the federal government is walking back a promise to pay 42.5 per cent of the share of expenses.

The federal government has yet to pass legislation to empower a new coordinator for the emergency services line, but experts say tougher conditions are needed on the telco itself.

The WA government is considering mandating the use of dash cameras for driving instructors, in a bid to better protect vulnerable student drivers.

As the state government looks back on the first year of its five-year domestic violence reform plan, experts in the field reveal what the government is doing right and where improvement is needed. 

A WA government department says the state’s new firearms laws are causing headaches for a program which responds to reports of injured and suffering animals on the roadside.

One of WA's highest-ranking Labor MPs has called on the state government to abandon controversial plans to build an entertainment precinct and street circuit in Burswood. 

A senior WA emergency department doctor describes his workplace as running in a "disaster situation", struggling within a health system which has an "unhealthy fixation" on ambulance ramping.

The Town of Cambridge will refund almost $1 million to ratepayers after an administrative oversight incorrectly inflated their rates.

The WA Liberals are grappling with net zero divisions, a possible coalition and the need to raise crucial funds — but Basil Zempilas has told party faithful he is the leader they need to win the next state election.