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A light aircraft crashes near Rottnest Island, Western Australia, killing the pilot and two tourists from Denmark and Switzerland while injuring three other passengers.
2025-01-7

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

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

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

Lockdown restrictions are lifted in Perth, Western Australia, after no new community transmissions are reported. However, some indoor venues will remain closed, and the mask mandate will continue.
2021-04-27

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

Severe Tropical Cyclone Rusty intensifies to Category 4 status before crossing the coast of Western Australia between Port Hedland and Pardoo.
2013-02-27

Asylum seekers at the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre off the Indian Ocean coast of Western Australia start a hunger strike in protest at their deportation to Malaysia.
2011-08-6

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