A residential development proposed by the Satterley Property Group on Anglican Church land in the Perth Hills suburb of Stoneville is branded a planning "disaster" by concerned locals.

Two years ago, he was playing for Australia and could have been forgiven for thinking he had the cricket world at his feet. Then Hilton Cartwright's form fell off a cliff and he's still trying to recover.

Gerard Ross vanished while holidaying with his family south of Perth in 1997 and the 11-year-old's body was found a fortnight later. Now police are launching a new push to find his killer.

A WA mother is vowing to move interstate with her four-year-old son, splitting him up from his sister, if education authorities refuse her requests for him to start school a year later because he "won't cope".

The City of Melville, which includes some of Perth's most expensive riverside real estate, descends into chaos and claims of standover tactics as tensions boil over ahead of this month's local government election.

A Perth Family Court psychologist is found guilty of professional misconduct for writing an official report labelling a father "psychopathic" without a clinical diagnosis, resulting in him being separated from his son.

A year after Lachie Yeo was killed in a crash on a WA highway, the man who caused the accident and who was high on drugs when he drove onto the wrong side of the road is jailed for six years.

More than 60 West Australian homes and businesses are having their electricity cut off on an average day for failing to pay their bills, with the number more than doubling in just three years.

A Perth man is found guilty of murder after claiming he was defending himself against a home invader when he tied up his victim and bashed and stabbed him before slashing his throat.

Jemma Lilley loses an appeal against her conviction and will stay behind bars for almost three decades after luring Perth teenager Aaron Pajich to her home and murdering him with another woman.

Opponents of Western Australia's voluntary assisted dying bill are defeated in their attempt to put a final vote in State Parliament on hold until well into next year.

One West Australian is tasered the equivalent of every weekday by police officers, new data obtained by the ABC via Freedom of Information shows.

A man with a disability was strip searched and prosecuted after a false claim he was photographing children at a beachside suburb, leading to calls for an apology from WA Police.

Perth Glory fans could be forgiven for being sceptical of Kristian Popovic's spot in a team coached by his dad Tony, given the club's somewhat disastrous history of father-son duos.

Perth's heart transplant unit opened for business 25 years ago. Since then almost 200 people have received new hearts.

Since she was 11, an eating disorder has controlled much of Ruby Alarcon Gleeson's life. Then when she turned 16, she fell through the gaps into a "chasm of care" just when she needed help the most.

A police officer who was filmed on mobile phones driving into an 18-year-old man in Perth's south-east last year, knocking him down and sending him to hospital, is found guilty of dangerous driving.

An inquest into the deaths of two children murdered by their father at their home has heard police took almost three-and-a-half hours to attend the house after their mother raised the alarm.

The WA Government will ban students from using mobile phones, smart watches and tablets in all public schools from 2020 in a major push to reduce distraction and focus on learning.

Opponents of a voluntary assisted dying bill in Western Australia face fresh accusations of filibustering after a Liberal MP moved hundreds of amendments to the proposed legislation.

Perth Glory confirms it has approached Swedish football superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic about playing for the club on a short-term deal in what would be a major coup for the A-League.

A former Perth rugby league coach who spent more than 14 years behind bars for "horrendous and abhorrent" child sex offences is jailed for another seven months for molesting a boy 25 years ago.

WA Police are forced to apologise after saying Craig Peacock, who double-dipped on his taxpayer-funded allowance to enrich himself and benefit friends including two MPs, would not face criminal charges.

Jamie knows more than most how difficult life can be on the public housing wait list and despite an improvement, the process can still be painfully long even for those most in need.

A team of WA Police officers will be deployed to Japan as part of a revived investigation into former trade commissioner Craig Peacock, accused of misusing his position to pocket $540,000 in taxpayer funds.

Almost 20 years after she first sought help for an eating disorder, single mother Amanda Baldi says she feels no closer to recovery in a state without a single residential treatment centre.

Could Coronavirus create a new hierarchy of humanity – who’s valuable and who’s not? And, has the Vatican been affected by coronavirus? Also, the story of love across the religious divide in India and Pakistan.

George Pell has been acquitted in the High Court and freed from jail for Easter. But will the cardinal return to a position of power in the global Catholic Church? And, a long-time friend of George Pell, Dr Bernadette Tobin joins the program. Also, the Palestinian Muslim who has spent his life as guardian of one of Christianity’s holiest shrines.

Singapore and South Korea – partly because of their experience with previous corona virus outbreaks – have managed this pandemic without locking people in their homes or shutting down their economies. How did they do it?

Do cooking shows work in a theatre setting?

Throughout a two hour culinary journey Rick will bring his travels to life, working with his guest chef to prepare an array of dishes, from fishy favourites in Cornwall, to vibrant and colourful Mediterranean cuisine, onwards to the light spicy flavours of South East Asia and culminating in a unique Australian dish. Audiences will also be captivated along the way with stories and footage from his TV series.

A modest show about Nyoongar identity is a comic insight into living in two worlds, says 720 ABC's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie

We're told that COVID-19 is an unprecedented event, one that's upended all our old certainties — so it's perhaps strange that we're thinking about it in very familiar ways. Considering the history, the politics and the ethics of COVID-19 can reveal fascinating and uncomfortable insights about ourselves and our society.

News sites are recording a huge spike in traffic - but with advertising dollars dropping, how will media survive?

News sites are recording a huge spike in traffic - but with advertising dollars dropping, how will media survive?

The man who shaped and reformed Australian intelligence services receives an overdue biography.

New legislation in Cambodia is feared to further restrict human rights in the country.

The dire predictions for Africa are all in place, but so far they haven't come true.

Some pundits say capitalism can never recover from Covid-19, and there will need to be bigger government. Others say the future economic recovery rests with the business sector.

Australia and India, as former British colonies, had much in common, and could have forged a strong relationship for their mutual benefit. But Australia's White Australia policy, and India's determination to leave the Empire and become a Republic, stymied the friendship.

What to read, watch and listen to in the month of May to broaden your world.

Space exploration has given us conveniences such as smartphone cameras, memory foam mattresses and satellite navigation, but it also boosts the economy.

A Rotary Club in WA has been trialling a form of cheap and simple therapy for people living with dementia. Having seen some remarkable results, the plan is now to push the program further.