Keane Bourke News Today

A string of violent attacks has left nine WA women dead this year, three of them killed in the past fortnight. What is behind WA's alarmingly high rate of gendered violence?

Australia has one of the highest pet ownership rates in the world. But are we being the best pet parents possible? Or do we need to rethink how we breed, buy and care for our animals?

Despite moving to Australia as a child and raising his whole family here, a criminal conviction over methamphetamine means Stephen is facing deportation to a country where he has no ties.

Perth Airport's split terminals will be consolidated into one complex, ending years of confusion for travellers, following a new deal struck with Qantas.

The identity of a police officer responsible for a fatal shooting in regional WA is revealed after a Supreme Court judge lifted a suppression order ahead of an inquest into the Indigenous woman's death.

Authorities in WA have leapt to defend the way police responded to concerns raised by the wife and daughter of Floreat double murderer Mark Bombara prior to the shootings.

The WA government will introduce knife laws it says will be "the toughest in the country", effectively allowing officers to scan people in any public place.

With police in WA poised to get new stop-and-search powers targeting knives, the question is whether that translates to making the community safer, or strays closer to the type of laws the police minister opposed strongly a decade ago.

A former immigration detainee, released after the High Court ruled indefinite detention was unlawful, receives a suspended sentence for breaching his curfew and letting his GPS tracker's battery run out.

The WA budget is being announced, with the state expected to confirm a $4 billion surplus. Follow live as we unpack the details.