The Latest Breaking News from Western Australia

It began as the scarcely believable tale of a very tiny and very lost radioactive "Tic Tac" in the Australian desert, and ended up a planet-sized news story.

Non-compostable takeaway coffee cups will be banned from sale in Western Australia by March 2024 as the state government cracks down on single-use plastics.

The task was daunting: find a tiny radioactive capsule that had fallen off a truck somewhere in Western Australia's vast outback sometime in January.

NSW Opposition Leader Chris Minns on Thursday praised South Australia for joining Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia in banning the use of devices during school hours.

A lost radioactive capsule found after a search along a 1,400 km stretch of the arid Western Australian outback is due to arrive in Perth on Thursday evening as investigators work on piecing together just how it fell from a truck.

Authorities say there is no need to remediate the area where a dangerous radioactive capsule was found after falling off a truck in remote Western Australia.

The Pilbara region of Western Australia is home to one of the most ancient surviving pieces of Earth’s crust, which has been geologically unchanged since its creation some 3.5 billion years ago.

The Tic Tac-sized radioactive capsule arrives in Perth after its disappearance in Western Australia's outback sparked a frantic search.

Authorities in Western Australia have recovered a tiny but dangerous radioactive capsule that fell off a truck while being transported along a 870-mile highway last month

The tiny radioactive capsule that sparked a massive hunt has been found just south of Newman in a remote area of Western Australia.

Tiny capsule containing caesium-137 emits dangerous amounts of radiation equivalent to receiving 10 X-rays in an hour