Former One Nation senator Rod Culleton has been sentenced after failing to disclose his bankruptcy status on his nomination for the 2022 Federal election.
Claire Sadler
A young man who abused a Jewish man while performing a Nazi salute on a live stream, shouted the N-word in a police lockup and assaulted a constable has been spared more jail time.
Rebecca Le May
A white supremacist who repeatedly made ‘heil Hitler’ salutes at a Perth pub says he’s proud to be a neo-Nazi.
Rebecca Le May and James Carmody
A Narrogin drug dealer who pleaded guilty to selling methamphetamine and possessing MDMA and paraphernalia has avoided jail time.
Hannah Whitehead
Police have charged four more teenagers over an alleged stabbing attack that plunged Ellenbrook Secondary College into lockdown.
Caleb Runciman
The site currently has a sign that reads: ‘Do not enter, toxic, polluted by BP.’
Sophie Gannon
A top Department of Communities bureaucrat has acknowledged that information sharing between agencies about children in State care could be better.
Hannah Cross
A Narrogin man who launched a wrench at another vehicle and smashed its tail-light at a stoplight while his pregnant wife was in active labour in the passenger seat has avoided immediate jail time.
A former employee who pocketed hundreds of dollars in cash from the small Katanning cafe she worked at to repay a loan has been sentenced after changing her plea.
Shocking claims about an armed attack that sent a Perth school into lockdown have been aired in court, including information about a gang called ‘South Side’.
Sarah Crawford
Due to Ms Lupica’s mental impairment, a special proceeding will instead take place.
A man was trying to escape police and angry family members when he drove a car with a shredded tyre while towing an SUV on the wrong side of the road in front of a road train, a court has been told.
Tegan Guthrie
The death of a 10-year-old Indigenous boy in State care was most likely an accident, but suicide can’t be ruled out completely, an inquest has been told.
Western Australia will join the fight against a High Court challenge to Australia’s social media ban after NSW and SA announced they planned to intervene in the case.
Caitlyn Rintoul
A 20-year-old man will face court this week in relation to an alleged hit-and-run that left a Mandurah teen in hospital.
Rachel Fenner
A prisoner who left a guard with a broken nose and violently attacked two others while they tried to de-escalate an argument has been handed additional jail time on top of his multi-year sentence.
Jacki Elezovich
Former defence minister Linda Reynolds has been stymied in her defamation lawsuit against Brittany Higgins, with a judge reserving his decision on whether to find Ms Reynold’s former staffer bankrupt.
The coroner who investigated WA’s first child death in detention has described Cleveland Dodd’s case as ‘one of the saddest’ he had heard, labelling the teen’s treatment ‘inhumane’.
Rebecca Le May and Oliver Lane
A man who beat his pregnant partner with a rock and stick in front of their daughter in a drunken rage has expressed his desire to change his life for his kids.
Perth’s knife laws have failed to protect a teenager from a violent stabbing in Northbridge.
Nick Overall & Bethany Hiatt
A 33-year-old man has been charged after allegedly defacing several items of furniture at the Subi Night Markets.
Jessica Evensen
A 25-year-old man charged over the death of an older man in Geraldton — who lost his life a few days after an alleged assault — will spend Christmas and New Year behind bars on remand.
Kate Campbell
An inquest will this week examine the circumstances that led to the death of a 10-year-old Indigenous boy while he was in the care of the State Government.
New services giving tangible help to victim-survivors of sex crimes and domestic violence are getting more cash as disturbing data underpins a first-ever prevention strategy for WA.
