WA Police are repurposing seized e-scooters and using them in a novel way to catch out criminals.
Jessica Evensen
Premier Roger Cook, senior ministers and police held a meeting last week to discuss tougher penalties for stores selling illicit tobacco products smuggled into the country by organised criminals.
Caleb Runciman
A teenager who assaulted a policeman in a mob attack at Optus Stadium says the officer should have told him to ‘stop being a smart arse’ and called for back-up.
Rebecca Le May
A witness has told the jury in Matt Wright’s trial that chopper crash pilot Sebastian Robinson rarely used cocaine and he only saw him consume it once — at a bucks party on the celebrity croc-wrangler’s boat.
Kristin Shorten
Police are appealing for information after a man was hit and killed by a car in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Meet the crime lord behind the illegal cigarette trade that has sparked extortion, standover tactics, fire bombings and now drive-by shootings.
Ben Harvey and Caleb Runciman
Officers from the State security investigation group have descended on a Perth high school after a TikTok video containing a threat to ‘shoot up the school’ went viral.
Bethany Hiatt & Jessica Evensen
WA Police says it has been targeted by deepfake scammers seeking to spread misinformation about the State’s new firearm laws, prompting a warning to the public.
Rhianna Mitchell
A man is on the run after abandoning his car in East Cannington and disappearing into bushland.
Caitlin Vinci
A teenage driver is lucky to be alive after rolling his car on Chester Pass Road on Friday, with police warning the crash could easily have been fatal.
Melissa Sheil
The tentacles of Melbourne’s bloody tobacco wars have hit WA with police fearing a rapid number of drive-by shootings and arson attacks could result in an innocent person being killed.
A man was repeatedly stabbed after confronting a violent intruder who had broken into his father’s home and was assaulting the 84-year-old resident.
Madeline Cove
Police say it is too early to tell whether two shootings at the same Cannington smoke shop over the weekend are linked to a third shooting in Ballajura.
Georgia Campion
Detectives believe a second gun incident in Cannington near a busy Perth shopping centre in the early hours of Sunday morning is related to a similar shooting on Saturday.
Police said two rounds of ammunition were fired, piercing a metal roller shutter and a glass window.
The Friday morning incident left a man hospitalised with serious injuries.
Hannah Cross
Homicide squad detectives are investigating the suspicious death of a man after he was found critically injured in a carpark.
Caitlin Vinci and Hannah Cross
The man was found at 5.30am and rushed to Royal Perth Hospital.
Emergency service crews successfully freed a teenager who was trapped in his vehicle after it rolled on Chester Pass Road near Albany on Friday afternoon.
Perth’s newest state of the art police station in Baldivis has celebrated its official opening.
Oliver Lane
Col Blanch says the shocking DV statistics revealed by the West Australian are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’, claiming there is another number the community should be concerned about.
Oliver Lane and Shannon Hampton
Former WA Police senior detective Mick Buckley has been reuniting West Australians with their beloved fur babies for more than four decades.
A man in his 60s is in hospital after his home was engulfed by flames early this morning while he was still inside.
The public has been warned not to approach Mr Slater if spotted, and instead contact the police immediately.
