Lana Taranto

Perth’s mask mandate and hospitality COVID-19 restrictions will remain for another week, with Western Australia recording one new case linked to an infected French backpacker.

Thousands of homes remain without power across Perth as the city is set to endure its third successive day of sweltering heat.

Mark McGowan says it is still his plan to declare in the first half of December a date for the state to open up, but authorities will watch what happens with the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 carefully over the next week.

A knife-wielding man is shot and killed by police at a house in the Perth suburb of Gosnells after stabbing an officer in the arm, with a second officer also injured in the incident.

Police are not ruling out the possibility that missing four-year-old Cleo Smith, who disappeared from a WA campsite on Saturday, was taken. 

WA's Health Department confirms non-urgent surgeries in Perth and regional hospitals will be put off from Wednesday, as doctors warn the state would not cope with a serious COVID-19 outbreak.

Close to 1 million doses landed overnight as part of Australia's vaccine ramp up, with more than 800,000 landing in Sydney and almost 100,000 in Melbourne.

Western Australia records a further positive case of COVID-19, with Perth and Peel entering a four-day hard lockdown at midnight.

Prescribed burns and smaller private property burns leave large parts of the Perth metropolitan area blanketed in thick smoke, with more likely in coming days.

A 30-year-old man appears in court charged with the murder of a three-month-old baby after she suffered brain injuries at a house in the northern Perth suburb of Girrawheen and died in hospital.

Police charge 48-year-old Perth restaurant owner Maurizio DiCiano with sexually assaulting six female employees aged in their 20s and 30s at his Italian eatery No Menu.

Crown Resorts announces the resignation of another key director from the company’s board and Perth’s Burswood casino with immediate effect due to a “perceived lack of independence” from a past relationship with James Packer.

WA Premier Mark McGowan accuses some in the business community of being out of touch with public sentiment and wanting coronavirus to "come back" to the state by calling for the border to be lifted.

Two people are taken to a Perth hospital after a fire breaks out at a commercial property in the industrial area of Malaga.

Police are investigating an apparent barbed wire “booby trap” that injured a teenage jogger in the eastern Perth suburb of High Wycombe.

Police are investigating an apparent barbed wire "booby trap" that injured a teenage jogger in the eastern Perth suburb of High Wycombe.

A man whose boat sank is rescued by fishermen taking a closer look at what they initially thought was debris in the water off Port Kennedy, with his survival put down to his "mile a day" swim regime.

Fremantle captain David Mundy expresses shock at speculation of a rift between Nat Fyfe and some of his teammates, as Hayden Ballentyne confirms he is considering leaving the club.

Some Perth epilepsy patients are waiting up to 18 months for a critical test to determine treatment and some may die before they are eligible, the Epilepsy Association says.