Visitors, patients and staff at the Great Southern’s largest hospital will no longer be forced to park on the verge now that the $2 million expansion of the facility’s carpark has been completed.
Melissa Sheil
A novel nerve implant treatment will be tested on WA sleep apnoea patients in a new University of WA-run trial.
Angela Pownall
Less than half of the Cook Government’s $50 million blitz to fix crumbling WA hospitals has been spent, months after the urgent action was unveiled.
Charlton Hart
Whether it was blissfully, or deliberately, ignorant of disrepair in some of Perth’s hospitals, the government has now been forced into action.
Jessica Page
Albany senior Aboriginal health worker Glenda Williams hit a major professional milestone this year, working 50 years with WA Country Health Service.
Amy Towers
Officials at Perth Children’s Hospital do not know why dangerous amounts of lead have returned to drinking water facilities that were supposedly cleansed of the toxic metal.
Adrian Rauso
Labor has spruiked the successful rollout of its bulk-billing expansion, but new figures reveal WA is still lagging the rest of the nation and out-of-pocket costs to see other GPs have gone up.
Cheyanne Enciso
Pressure is rising to decide on the future of Albany’s hydrotherapy pool as the Albany MLA joins community advocates calling for the State Government to release the results of a feasibility study
Albany optometrist Victoria Walters says a regular eye check-up should not be something to put off, even if you think your vision is 20/20.
Jacki Elezovich
Cancer Council WA is urging people over 40 in the Great Southern to get any new or unusual symptoms checked, warning delays in treatment can reduce survival rates.
Manufacturers have been urged against adding unnecessary preservatives to food following a study that found they could increase cancer risk.
Brooke Rolfe
As the cost of living continues to bite, West Aussies like Alana Rose are being forced to become more budget savvy when they hit the supermarket.
Hannah Cross
WA Health issued an alert on Tuesday that there had been another case of a highly infection disease diagnosed in the State.
Tahnee Graham
People who were on board the flight returning from Bali have been urged to monitor for symptoms.
Kirsty Lichtenstein
A person infected with a highly contagious virus attended the western suburbs event.
Claire Sadler
A busy Bunnings, Coles and Woolworths have all been identified as exposure sites.
Fewer teens than ever are engaging in risky drinking, but the decline is much slower among adults, new data shows.
Contact tracing is underway after a new case of measles was confirmed in a young child.
Figures obtained by The West Australian reveal the scale of disrepair — and suspected black mould — at WA’s main trauma hospital.
The first long-term study on the risks of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccine has found those who were vaccinated had a lower risk of dying from the infectious disease.
Jacky Sum Wai Chan was caught trying to take covert photos of a teenager trying on swimwear in a change room and has now been banned from practising for four years.
Reach Resources has secured its prospective Jacamar gold project in the company’s Murchison South gold project in WA with a recent mining lease grant centred less than 1 kilometre southeast of Payne’s Find.
Doug Bright
Australia experienced the highest outbreak of whooping cough following the pandemic, according to new research, prompting reminders about the importance of vaccinations.
All pregnant women in Australia could soon be screened for a life-threatening pregnancy condition which can be prevented with a daily dose of aspirin, thanks to a pioneering WA-led trial.
Rhianna Mitchell
