Offstream
news

A radioactive capsule is missing along a 1,400-kilometre stretch of highway in Western Australia.
2023-01-27

3000 km of the coast of Western Australia is battered by a "once in a decade" storm.
2020-05-24

Three people are unaccounted for and at least 135 structures are destroyed, including the historic Yarloop Workshops, following a bushfire in the small Western Australian town of Yarloop. Reports coming out of the area suggest the town of Yarloop has been almost completely destroyed with one local official, Murray Cowper, saying, "A big fireball came through and there was no way they were going to stop it. This could well be the end of the town".
2016-01-8

Bushfires burning near Esperance on the coast of Western Australia may have killed four people.
2015-11-17

Australia, Malaysia and the People's Republic of China reach an agreement about the costs and direction of the ongoing search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean southwest of Western Australia.
2014-08-28

More than 170,000 houses are left without power in south-western Western Australia after winds up to 140 km-h batter the region.
2012-06-11

A tropical cyclone warning is issued for Western Australia's Pilbara and Kimberly regions as Cyclone Lua approaches at Category 3 strength.
2012-03-16

The heads of government of the Commonwealth of Nations meet in the Western Australian city of Perth.
2011-10-28

Claude Choules, the last known combat veteran from World War I, dies in Perth, Western Australia.
2011-05-5

Bushfires in Perth, Western Australia continue to burn out of control after having destroyed up to 40 homes.
2011-02-7