Kit Mochan

A sharp rise in water use has prompted warnings from a former WA state water minister that the Government may need to bring forward construction of a desalination plant, putting significant upward pressure on household water bills.

WA’s Attorney General says he went back to the drawing board on his long awaited draft farm trespass legislation following ABC 7.30’s investigation into the horse racing industry.

When a worker in a hazmat suit erected danger tape across his driveway and began extracting asbestos from a pit, an Albany father wondered why he wasn’t notified.

Tim Winton’s award-winning 1998 young adult novel Blueback will be adapted for the big screen and filmed on Western Australia’s south coast.

As city dwellers ignore government coronavirus travel warnings and head to their holiday homes to wait out the pandemic, permanent residents in small towns fear they could find themselves trapped and infected.

A lot has changed in the two weeks since Premier Mark McGowan said he had no plans to close the state’s eastern border, with WA now effectively divided into nine separate territories.

Despite widespread closures of public libraries, pools and gyms — local councils say they have been left behind by the federal coronavirus stimulus package.

The coronavirus pandemic is understandably weighing heavily on the business sector, but there are early signs of green shoots as one state begins to open up.

There is new concern from the WA tourism industry after claims that multi-million-dollar State Government relief packages missed their target, with many small operators saying they were locked out.

Marine scientists release new findings into why killer whales are drawn to deep-sea canyons off WA’s south coast.