The Latest Breaking News from Western Australia

The AFL’s marquee State of Origin fixture will return next year after an absence of 26 years, with Western Australia to host Victoria in Perth on Valentine’s Day

Outback Western Australia, some time in the 1970s. Picture a huge farm about 500 kilometres north of Perth, with a seemingly endless dirt road to get there.

Shark attacks are rare, but Australia sees more than most countries, with an average of 22 shark bites per year between 2010 and 2022.

For more than two months, the bright orange butterflies have been descending on Nannup in WA’s south-west, attracted by invasive plant species

Until now, many of Western Australia’s most pristine coral reefs have avoided the worst bleaching brought by marine heatwaves. But their luck has now run out. The state’s longest lasting, largest and most intense underwater heatwave has hammered them.

Airs Monday 18 August 2025 at 1:45pm on 5.

More than 170 years after shocking bloodshed at Bootenal Springs, there is at last a reckoning

Pink lakes in Western Australia get their color from pigments produced by microbes, but climate change and other human threats are killing these tiny organisms.

Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) reported its weakest half-year profit since 2020, as soft iron prices and weather-related disruptions in Western Australia weighed on results. The top global miner posted a 22% drop in net profit to $4.5 billion for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Underlying earnings declined 16% year-on-year…