The Latest Breaking News from Western Australia

Western Australia's unemployment rate has fallen to a national low of 3.4 per cent, its lowest level in 14 years with almost 1.5 million people now in work.

Limited access to rapid antigen test kits, insufficient health services, a food shortage and overcrowding in homes has led Western Australia's remote Kimberley communities to say they feel 'abandoned' in the state government's response to remote COVID outbreaks.

Close contact rules are relaxed just in time for the Easter long weekend, with fewer capacity limits and the scrapping of check-in rules everywhere except hospitals.

Over the next six weeks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese will dash around the country, trying to secure as many precious votes as they can.

As WA's seven-day average of new cases continues to decline, an epidemiologist says the state has passed its Omicron peak — but there are more challenges ahead, with fresh outbreaks and even future pandemics on the horizon.

University of Western Australia Publishing has just released the first of three volumes of John Kinsella’s Collected Poems.

The map below shows the 2019 federal election results adjusted for redistributions in Victoria and Western Australia. Victoria gained a seat (Hawke), while WA lost one (Stirling). Hawke is a notional Labor seat, while Stirling was a Liberal seat, so Labor gained one notional seat by redistribution.

Locals get to work cleaning an estimated 16,000 dead fish from beaches on Western Australia's Ningaloo coastline, after the state's largest fish kill in more than a decade.

Western Australia's Health Minister, Amber-Jade Sanderson, says up to 30 children a day are presenting to Perth Children's Hospital with COVID-19, prompting the state's school holiday vaccination blitz.

Western Australia's path through the pandemic creates a two-speed economy and that's bad news for business owners like Edward Schimmel.

Western Australia's premier has declined to say when face mask mandates will be removed as COVID-19 case numbers continue to steadily decline in the state.