How should Australia proceed in its relationship with China and what are the risks involved?

A thought provoking examination of our relationship with whales and the environment.

Renowned sailor Jon Sanders blames a "huge, confused swell" for the sinking his yacht off the coast of WA.

A high-tech telescope situated in Western Australia's desert discovers a galaxy almost five billion light-years away.

Member for Geraldton Ian Blayney quits the Liberal Party and will sit as an independent while his application to join the Nationals is being considered.

Ian Blayney is a regional MP who decided to quit the WA Liberals and move to the Nationals. But everyone, especially his own former party leader, is being strangely nice about it, writes Jacob Kagi.

For many West Australians the beach forms the foundation of their lifestyle, but the oceanfront dream is under threat for many in Perth and towns up and down the coast.

Port Beach's Coast pub and surf life saving rooms should be moved and some Rottnest Island holiday bungalows should be pushed back from the beach in the long term, a report into WA coastal erosion hotspots says.

Foreign investors buy hundreds of hectares of land in WA's Midwest with plans to build homes specifically for Chinese migrants and associated services, including a school.

Large numbers of Chinese tourists are flocking to the pink lake near Port Gregory in Western Australia, but has it become a victim of its own popularity?

Three more men from different countries are arrested as part of an international investigation into an attempted billion-dollar drug smuggling operation uncovered when a yacht ran aground off the WA coast.

On the oldest landscape on earth, new technology is being developed to help remove dogs over millions of hectares.

A car and a bus carrying 34 people crash on Indian Ocean Drive north of Perth, at the turn-off to the world-famous Pinnacles rock formations, leaving two Chinese tourists who were in the SUV dead and a third in hospital.

Brutal heat and bitter cold have cost farmers in WA more than 1.5m tonnes in crops over the course of a fortnight, according to a grain industry report.

Locals say bad driving mainly from tourists is to blame for a spate of fatal crashes on a stretch of Indian Ocean Drive north of Perth, after the latest serious accident left two foreigners dead.

Friends and relatives of a woman who died in hospital after being shot by police on a suburban street in Geraldton question why police did not employ pepper spray or a Taser instead, as a protest erupts outside the local police station over what they say was excessive force.

As family and friends of Joyce Clarke demand to know why the young woman was shot dead by police, a tragic picture of her early life blighted by drugs and mental illness is beginning to emerge.

Residents in a regional WA town are fighting against what they say is a life-threatening decline in healthcare services.

Australia's biggest grain handler and a global infrastructure giant reach agreement on the use of WA's rail freight network, but farmers' hopes this will lead to fewer trucks transporting grain may be dashed.

A WA rehabilitation centre is finding success with a baking program that has helped drug users some of whom have battled addiction for decades to start recovering.

Sandy Verschoor is elected Adelaide Lord Mayor, while the state's four largest councils and two largest cities outside Adelaide will have women in charge following elections yesterday.

Producers describe plans for a new abattoir near Port Pirie as a "complete game changer" for pastoralists, saving them thousands in freight costs.

The Keith and District Hospital will receive $140,000 lifeline to keep operating until July under a new deal struck by the South Australian Government and Tatiara District Council.

Beekeepers have lost up to 70 per cent of honey production because of "horrendous" conditions, and the effects of another bad season could be felt by other food crops.

When Grammy-nominated American jazz performer Joey DeFrancesco sold his blonde-coloured Hammond B3 organ over eBay to an Australian bidder, he had one condition. That it be made available when he played in Australia.

A Victorian man arrested and extradited from interstate over the cold case murder of grandmother Beverley Hanley has arrived back in Adelaide, where he is expected to be charged with murder.

Steven Leslie Hainsworth, 44, is charged over the 2010 cold case murder of Adelaide grandmother Beverley Hanley.

A "fireball" believed to have been a meteor lights up the skies overnight, with reports of sightings coming in from South Australia and Victoria. One expert says the earth has been bombarded by twice as many small asteroids than usual over the last couple of years.

A fireball that could be seen soaring across the Australian sky on Tuesday night is believed to have landed in the ocean, about 400 kilometres south of Adelaide.

A 32-year-old man whose car hit a power pole with enough force to split it is the fourth road crash victim within 24 hours, with SA Police saying speed is a major factor behind a surging death toll.