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Jack Brearley and Brodie Lee Palmer are found guilty of the murder of Aboriginal Australian schoolboy Cassius Turvey in Middle Swan, Western Australia, in 2022, while Mitchell Forth is convicted of manslaughter.
2025-05-8

Fifty-one long-finned pilot whales are found dead after beaching themselves on a beach near Albany, Western Australia, as part of a larger pod of nearly 100. State authorities and volunteers are working to redirect the remaining 46 whales to deeper waters.
2023-07-25

Western Australia reports a record 37 locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
2022-02-10

Over 70 homes are destroyed by a large wildfire in Western Australia.
2021-02-3

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan says he is willing to use state law to block livestock export ships on animal welfare grounds. The move comes as MV "Awassi Express" is detained in Fremantle undergoing ventilation upgrades mandated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority after video emerged of 2,400 sheep dying on board during a voyage last August. MV "Maysora" left the port last week despite inspectors reporting water troughs that were empty or filled with faeces.
2018-04-22

Tropical Cyclone Stan gathers strength as it heads towards the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia.
2016-01-29

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

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

The world's first solar-diesel power station opens in Marble Bar, Western Australia.
2010-08-20

Eleven of Australia's most important convict sites including Hyde Park Barracks and The Domain in Sydney, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia and Port Arthur, Tasmania are added.
2010-08-1