The Latest Breaking News from WA Police

Up to 900 of Western Australia's rarest orchids have been stolen from a botanical garden, causing fear the endangered plants will not survive without expert care.

WA Police received a triple zero called at approximately 3.30pm

Ten people are arrested and two officers are injured as rocks, bottles and broken pavers are thrown at police who declared two out-of-control gatherings in Perth's city centre overnight.

Western Australia's police union calls for more mental health support after its own research found the number of suicide deaths in the force has surpassed the number killed in action. WARNING: This article contains content that some readers may find distressing.

Local leaders support the decision to scrap the police-backed proposal and instead keep pandemic-era restrictions, such as volume limits and reduced hours at bottle shops.

A teenage boy is the latest to be charged after he allegedly spat on and kicked a female bus driver in Perth's south-east, as police crack down amid claims of a holiday youth crime wave.

Former One Nation senator Rod Culleton claims to be a Commonwealth officer, while his co-accused requests the magistrate take a sobriety test as the pair's trial begins.

The grieving mother of an Indigenous Perth teenager — who died after allegedly being bashed while walking home from school — accepts a volunteer role with Western Australia's police.

Two children left alone for hours at a boat ramp on the WA coast have been reunited with their parents whose jet ski broke down during a night-time ride.

Police divers recover the body of a Taiwanese man who went missing on Christmas Day while swimming at Black Diamond Lake, near Collie in south-west Western Australia.

The WA government will be forced to continue pay negotiations with frontline workers in the new year as two-thirds of police officers knock back its latest offer, with the vote revealed a day after the offer was delivered in a show of "goodwill".