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The WA government vows to spend more than a quarter of a billion dollars trying to address issues in the health system, as the Health Minister takes aim at the Commonwealth for its "abject failure" to manage some patients.

As Western Australia sees most of its COVID restrictions lifted, Premier Mark McGowan says authorities are thinking of alternative uses for a purpose-built quarantine facility which may be obsolete by the time it is built.

WA will take a giant step towards living with COVID on Friday, as a whole raft of restrictions are removed. This is what's changing.

The electorates of Curtin and Pearce are like chalk and cheese but have one thing in common – they used to be Liberal strongholds. With an interesting range candidates thrown in the mix, holding those seats is far from guaranteed.

Western Australia's Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson officially declares the state is past its peak in COVID-19 cases, but warns that scrapping face masks now could have a devastating impact.

For the residents of this small Australian town, a series of shark attacks prompted an almost existential crisis. What does it mean to love the ocean when it's a place of so much grief?

The WA Premier says he hopes the state is past its COVID-19 peak, but that it will take another week to be certain, as new modelling predicts a surge in deaths if face mask rules are relaxed in the next week.

After conflicting itineraries prevented Mark McGowan from seeing the Labor leader before he appeared all smiles alongside Scott Morrison two weeks later, the pair hold a press conference, complete with a baby and a random member of the public wanting to ask a "tough question".

Gun laws will be tightened in Western Australia to make sure they don't fall into the wrong hands, as police figures show firearm ownership has jumped 60 per cent in 13 years.

Mandurah publican Brittney Hutchen-Craig was among those hoping WA's COVID-19 restrictions would ease within a week or two, but plateauing case numbers mean they could be here to stay.

As COVID spreads through the West Australian community like never before, business owners like Rachael and Jasmine are left with some very difficult decisions to make.