People managing depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress are more likely to make use of ‘buy now, pay later’ loans, new international research suggests.
Hannah Cross
A teenager has died and multiple others have been hospitalised after a horror crash in Melbourne.
Pamela Rontziokos
State health ministers have blasted the Commonwealth for failing to come to the table with adequate hospital funding after talks to strike a five-year deal fell apart today.
Katina Curtis
State and territory health ministers have rejected a Commonwealth public hospital funding offer, as an ageing population stretches the system beyond capacity.
Tess Ikonomou and Andrew Stafford
Cinema magic brought big smiles to the little patients at Perth Children’s Hospital on Thursday.
Fewer teens than ever are engaging in risky drinking, but the decline is much slower among adults, new data shows.
Contact tracing is underway after a new case of measles was confirmed in a young child.
A routine skydive turned into a terrifying emergency when a jumper’s reserve chute wrapped around a plane, leaving him dangling in mid-air.
Andrew Hedgman
Medical professionals in the South West have dominated the finalists’ list for the 2026 WA Rural Health Excellence Awards.
Will Corbett
Doctors have pushed the State Government to take over Perth’s Mount Hospital to add much needed beds into the public health system.
Jessica Page
The State Government has blamed ‘complex’ patient care for new figures confirming WA has the worst emergency department wait times in the nation.
Figures obtained by The West Australian reveal the scale of disrepair — and suspected black mould — at WA’s main trauma hospital.
More than a quarter of girls in Australia and New Zealand have experienced childhood sexual violence, prompting researchers of the global study to call for more preventative measures.
Claire Sadler
Emergency room doctors work tirelessly to prepare patients for treatment but without funding co-operation, delays for critical care may continue to increase.
Tom Wark
A man has been charged over his role in an alleged terrifying home invasion where a woman was allegedly tied up and robbed.
Your parents might be right: Getting enough good quality sleep sets you up for an active and productive next day, according to new Australian-led research.
Jessica Evensen
The State Government are taking off the gloves and rolling up their sleeves in the fight against one of Australia’s most dangerous animals — the mosquito.
Craig Duncan
Rita Saffioti says a grieving Perth family’s three-year wait for a coroner’s report was ‘not acceptable’, but will not commit to boosting funding to rein in a record backlog.
A man has died and a woman has been seriously injured after a car mounted the footpath and crashed into a medical centre in a Melbourne suburb.
Alexandra Feiam
Wearable sweat sensors could soon detect stress, glucose and other biomarkers in real time, with researchers developing patches for non-invasive monitoring.
Katelyn Catanzariti
New details have emerged after an experienced firefighter died when he was crushed by a fallen tree in a bushfire zone.
Alexandra Feiam, Cameron Micallef, Steve Zemek
Many Australian women have quit or considered leaving their jobs during fertility treatment, but some employers are stepping in to stop the workforce exodus.
Maeve Bannister
Parkinson’s disease could be detected up to nine years before a formal diagnosis, simply by monitoring one subtle type of behaviour.
Scores of dentists in WA have put their patients to sleep for too long during complicated surgeries in clinics that are not licensed for sedation.
John Flint
