Rebecca Le May

A 28-year-old man accused of murdering his mother in her Bicton home so he could claim a $500,000 life insurance policy has detailed his ‘assistant’ role in his ex-partner’s six-figure social media empire.

‘Sick cat stopped parents from hospitalising starving girl’

A man who admitted his role in a string of lucrative commercial burglaries that AFL star Marlion Pickett stands accused of taking part in has been jailed.

Nadene Dodd has offered her personal support to the grieving family of the latest teenager to take his own life in juvenile detention in WA and slammed the Premier’s response to the tragedy.

The blockbuster defamation trial brought by Linda Reynolds against her former junior media adviser is nearing its end, with some 360 documents tendered as evidence before closing submissions.

A Perth dentist accused of drugging and then violating his Tinder and Bumble dates has admitted lying about his age, nationality, height and that he lived with his parents in his 30s but denies being deceptive.

The State Government says plans to build a green energy transmission line to the Burrup Peninsula are progressing - insisting it can be done without threatening World Heritage List-nominated ancient rock art.

A former childcare worker in Perth’s north has been found guilty of five counts of assaulting children after an epic trial and a long wait for the verdict.

One of three men accused of causing the death of a Perth mother whose body was dumped outside Joondalup Hospital following a drug-fuelled kidnapping and robbery will stand trial for the third time.

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