Confidential text messages between West Australian Premier Mark McGowan and Attorney-General John Quigley about Clive Palmer’s border challenge will be aired publicly at trial.

Mark McGowan said his government was opposed to gay conversion therapy as a ‘cruel and misinformed practice’ and had made it clear it had no place in the state.

Mitchell and Kwinana freeway and Stirling Highway commuters should prepare for added congestion Friday morning as #keepthesheep campaigners head to Elizabeth Quay.

WA Premier Mark McGowan says calls to bring down the nation’s international border this year are ‘mad’ and home quarantine for returned travellers is a recipe for disaster.

Healthcare staff have joined more than 1000 signatures on a petition calling for Premier Mark McGowan to reopen the border as promised, saying it made no sense medically to remain closed.

With no Plan B in sight, Premier Mark McGowan’s undoing could be as simple as the weather.

Some pretty basic human rights - and humanity - were cast aside in the pursuit of keeping the virus out.

Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but nobody ever told Taylor Swift that.

WA’s ongoing state of emergency is an absurd way to run things in the long term in a normally functioning parliamentary democracy.

Andrew Brayshaw is not friends with his assailant Andrew Gaff, did not play golf him, and the family are not okay Sunday's attack.

Media mogul Kerry Stokes and his wife arrived two weeks ago in their private jet and went straight to their riverfront mansion in Perth's billionaire suburb of Dalkeith after being granted an...

Restaurant owner Hayden Burbank, 49, and financial planner Mark Babbage, 39, were each sentenced to three months immediate imprisonment in Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

The West Coast forward will seek to settle his legal action against Seven West Media over articles on his alleged stance on the COVID-19 vaccine behind closed doors.

Shadow Health spokeswoman Libby Mettam said Premier Mark McGowan needed to provide transparency and release the Omicron modelling on which he was justifying his decisions.

WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch has vowed to review a raid on the home of a Pilbara journalist after the media union accused authorities of “harassment”.

WA iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest had pointed at arson as the biggest contributor to this summer’s devastating fire season but moved to clarify his stance later in the day.

WA Premier Mark McGowan has labelled Prime Minister Scott Morrison's support of Clive Palmer's border challenge in the High Court as "ridiculous" and unnecessary.

Clive Palmer faces up to five years in jail after being charged with fraud and dishonest use of his position as a company director over the funding of his political party. 

Since tensions between Australia and China began to simmer, WA Premier Mark McGowan has dipped his toes in foreign policy by continuing to seek close relationships with Beijing.

9 News Perth's Kamin Gok said the toddler was asleep when he was found, and was hungry, but he was speaking and has been reunited with his family.

Western Australia’s hard border with the rest of the nation and its COVID-19 suppression measures have helped the state’s economic performance, according to CommSec.

Chinese consular officials monitored and filmed an anti-Chinese Communist Party rally held outside of Western Australia's Parliament House, according to organisers.

Dr Andy Robertson revealed the state government’s ‘all-or-nothing’ approach to reopening the border was not based on health advice, despite Premier McGowan regularly claiming it was.

As "unprecedented" bushfires threaten NSW, Sir Richard Branson has a plan for Australia to become a world leader in the renewable energy space.

A spokeswoman said Jetstar’s schedule was published from April onwards, pending border restrictions.

Love him or hate him, WA’s newest Companion of the Order of Australia Mark McGowan left behind an unforgettable legacy.

Oil and gas companies are pillars of our society. Requiring them to offset their pollution would amount to reckless endangerment of our jobs and economy. Right?

Pressure is mounting on Premier Mark McGowan, with a leading infectious diseases expert calling on intrastate borders to be scrapped immediately.

The federal government has ramped up attacks on Queensland and WA after they insisted borders and lockdowns would continue to be used to fight COVID outbreaks, even as vaccination rates hit targets.

After the annus horribilis of 2020, was 2021 any better? It is debatable and it depends very much upon your frame of reference.

Ted Hui said the snub was disappointing and confusing given how willing Mr McGowan was to wade into the Beijing debate on economic issues, which suggested his government had chosen trade over human...

The family of asylum seekers will be given a pathway to become Australian residents under a decision by the Albanese government to end years of dispute over their treatment.

WA iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation has bought 90 tonnes of medical supplies from Chinese suppliers, which will be flown into Perth to be distributed across WA.

“Without decisive large-scale action the situation will only continue to worsen in the coming years and months and patients will suffer and even die as a result,” the top emergency doctors told...

Ross Cameron Males appeared in court on Friday charged with lighting five fires throughout Kings Park within the past two weeks.

Three West Australians who came into contact with a recently returned UK traveller with COVID-19 have gone into mandatory quarantine after a health protocol failure.

The level of vaccine protection would be at its best at the end of March, according to WA’s medical advice, as the government stays quiet on when borders might open.

Bye corona: The zero cases tally is likely be fleeting, with 140 infections detected in Perth’s quarantine hotels this year.

Tracey Bettridge was driving her kids to school one morning before work when she felt a stabbing pain shoot across her neck. Then, her body started to go numb.

A Perth mining millionaire who lives above the Raffles Hotel has lost his final legal bid to have the iconic pub's beer garden closed over complaints it is too noisy.

Infectious disease expert Clay Golledge says WA’s vulnerable will be more exposed in delaying the border reopening. He likened the state to a totalitarian dictatorship.

Vying for another term in government, WA Premier Mark McGowan’s tune has changed considerably since he called the ‘stop-and-search’ laws of the Barnett government “quasi-fascist”.

Premier Mark McGowan said other states were still seeing instances of community spread and clusters of cases and he would not expose Western Australia.

The Federal Court found WA's hard border was the most effective method of keeping coronavirus out of the state. 

If you listen to the politicians who have been pounding the pavements over the past week, there has been a noticeable shift in public sentiment about the 'hard border'.

The former Australian Medical Association president said she and her wife had long-term symptoms after vaccine shots.

WA Opposition Leader Liza Harvey wants WA to relax restrictions on pubs, restaurants and cafes by lifting the number of permitted patrons from 20 to 100 and abolishing the four-square-metre rule.

Mining billionaire Clive Palmer has lost his legal bid to have WA's hard border deemed unconstitutional after a High Court full bench ruled in favour of the state government.

A Perth woman who hid in a Victorian truck to sneak into WA without quarantining has been jailed for six months.

WA Premier Mark McGowan has again lambasted Victorian AFL clubs for not wanting to hub in the state to help restart the season.

Querying if there is an alternative to a snap lockdown in response to a community case does not translate to implying we should throw open the international border and just let the virus run rampant....

Wind and solar energy plants, hydrogen export and a revived steel industry are part of a ‘mega-project’ by the WA Liberal party said to tackle energy security and climate change in the state.

A Christmas reunion for families with relatives in the eastern states has been all but ruled out by WA Premier Mark McGowan, who announced he would consider reopening when the state hits a vaccine...

Students in all WA public schools will be banned from using mobile phones during school hours from 2020 in a drastic move by the state government.

Opposition home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally has booked her own flight to Christmas Island to visit a Tamil family held in immigration detention.

The WA Premier should be preparing for a surge in the disease when it inevitably comes.

Subsea 7 announced on Monday it had taken the decision to “cease investment” in the proposed pipeline facility in Learmonth, south of Exmouth, following a review of market conditions.

The 35,000-tonne shipment of malting barley to the world's fourth biggest beer maker signals a potentially significant new market for the grain after shipments to China ceased when it imposed an 80...

World number one ranked men’s tennis player Rafael Nadal and his Spanish teammates have kicked off 2020 in unique Western Australian style.

I need to address something that I actually did not really want to make public, but I will, because a line has well and truly been crossed.

Fremantle ruck veteran Aaron Sandilands will play on next year after accepting a combined playing and coaching agreement to extend his accomplished AFL career into a 17th season.

Perth Common Ground, the first facility of its kind in Western Australia, will feature 70 dwellings with wraparound health and support services and a cafe or similar offering on the ground floor.

West Australians will no longer be able to buy puppies from pet shop windows if the McGowan government’s legislative reform against puppy farming and animal cruelty gets the green light.

Mark McGowan has gone in boots first to defend his "hard border" policy and has made from extraordinary claims. Do they stack up? WAtoday investigates.

Drive program presenter Geoff Hutchison said on ABC Radio Perth news of the radio personality’s death had come as a huge shock.

A two-decade legal battle has concluded with the Ngarrawanji people finally recognised as the native title holders of an area in WA's East Kimberley region.

The WA government is investigating whether it is possible to charge people who made “grossly irresponsible” decisions to travel overseas in recent weeks.

In a radio interview on Monday, Denis Glennon said the Claremont Murders drama series was “abominable, unnecessary, insensitive and served no public value at all”.

Mark McGowan says the Morrison government should let a Tamil asylum-seeker family detained on Christmas Island settle permanently in Australia.

The odds of such a birth down to the second are about one in 30 million.

The new “extreme steps” to close the state will be enforced as of 1.30pm Tuesday and will refer to any non-essential travel via land, sea and air.

Do we dare to question if we are ‘the envy of the world’ when our COVID-free life still shuts out some of our most sacred and meaningful rituals?

Western Australia will lock down its border even further to Victoria from midnight tonight with Health Minister Roger Cook telling visitors from the virus-ridden state they're "not welcome".

It's been a 21-year journey to the big stage, but are West Coast Fever up to the task? WAtoday has broken down the stats to find out.

Contrary to Mark McGowan’s suggestions, life on the eastern side of the country is pretty good. Here’s what WA can expect in its future.

When neurologist Kate Ahmad heard Fraser Anning's comments on the Christchurch mosque massacre, she knew she had to do more than tweet.

Partygoers were allegedly dancing and drinking without masks, behind blackout curtains and locked doors, contrary to snap restrictions that had forced cancellations on most other events.

The newly installed shark barrier at Cottesloe Beach has already been infiltrated, with a sneaky seal finding its way into the supposedly safe enclosure.

The parents of Danny Hodgson have praised hospital staff after the soccer prodigy was moved out of intensive care after a 59-day ordeal.

The extraordinary international rescue effort to save the Thai soccer team trapped in the Tham Luang cave complex has successfully concluded.

A Woodside threat to sue two protesters for financial loss from an evacuation of its Perth headquarters due to a stink bomb has been labelled an attempt to intimidate peaceful climate protest.

Continually chest-beating over zero-COVID targets does nothing to inspire hope that one day people will be able to visit family members or businesses can stay open as cases are reported.

Andrew Gaff has made a serious mistake, but it seems like you’re asking us to abandon him because of it. It’s a ridiculous proposition.

Zempilas had been widely expected to announce his nomination this weekend but as late as Friday morning he was still being coy about his intentions on 6PR’s Mornings Program.