The Latest Breaking News from Western Australia

This election will be decided in marginal seats, but as we saw in 2019, the variation in state swings can make a huge impact. So what's the situation in your state? Antony Green takes a look.

A shark feeding frenzy is filmed by a fisher off Western Australia's coast where an alert remains in place for Norman Beach due to a whale carcass in the area.

The number of people dying with COVID-19 in Western Australia is climbing, with the number of deaths since the start of the year now greater than the state's road toll from last year.

A horticulturalist known across the globe as the inventor of Pink Lady and Sundowner-Joya apples, a culmination of 25 years of research and listed in Australia's top 100 inventions, has died.

Australia's mighty #MeToo wave is piling pressure on mining and political leaders who are preparing to face a reckoning over sexual harassment scandals stretching from the arid Outback to Parliament House.

Western Australia is forecasting a $5.7 billion budget surplus for 2021/22 with Premier Mark McGowan championing one of the world's strongest economies.

Western Australia sets a fresh record with daily COVID case numbers, which represent almost a 40 per cent jump on Tuesday's figure, with about one in 40 now infected with the virus.

Hundreds of aged care workers in Queensland and Western Australia walk off the job in a stand for better pay and work conditions, but South Australian aged care staff remained diligently at work after the Fair Work Commission put off their strike until the day after the federal election.

Western Australia sets a new COVID record the day after St John recorded its third highest day of ambulance ramping, with more than a quarter of ambulances left waiting outside hospitals as emergency departments burst at the seams.