Police are urging motorists to avoid Mundaring Weir Road tonight near Kalamunda after it was closed in both directions due to a serious crash.
Lisa Thomas
Emergency services are at the scene of a serious crash 80km south of Perth, where a person has been hit by a car and is fighting for their life.
Residents have been urged to leave or defend as a bushfire threatens homes near Esperance.
Tech giants could harness their stockpiles of personal data to create tailored warnings for people in the path of natural disasters.
Abe Maddison
An autopsy of a teenager who died after participating in a spicy tortilla chip challenge says he died from ingesting a large quantity of chilli pepper extract.
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St John WA has lowered the maximum speed paramedics can travel when responding to emergencies.
Lauren Price
An elderly woman has died in hospital weeks after she suffered injuries in a crash in Perth’s south.
A man has saved two dogs from a raging fire that destroyed a Winthrop home on Tuesday night.
Caleb Runciman
Steven Bradbury has received a bravery award for saving four struggling girls from rough surf, more than 20 years after his historic Winter Olympic gold medal.
Laine Clark
At least 13 people have been killed when a bus travelling from Lima crashed on a highway in Peru's Andean region.
Sarah Morland
A crash involving a bus and a pick-up truck has left eight people dead in the US state of Florida, local authorities say.
The RAC rescue chopper has landed at the scene of a serious crash around 180km south of Perth after a car slammed into a tree.
A billboard the size of an Olympic swimming pool has collapsed in Mumbai, killing at least 14 people while injuring and trapping others.
Hemanshi Kamani and Shilpa Jamkhandikar
A demolition to break down the span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is a major step in freeing the grounded Dali container ship.
Brendan O'Brien and Brad Brooks
Low-security prisoners from Bunbury’s damaged facility will help clean-up the town in the wake of a shock tornado on Friday, Corrections Minister Paul Papalia has revealed.
Dylan Caporn
Up to 2000 students competing in a swimming championship have been forced to flee after solar panels on the Sydney Olympic Park aquatic centre roof caught fire.
Samantha Lock
A Perth mother has had to have her leg amputated and learn to walk again after it was severed during an alleged hit-and-run.
A light plane has made a successful emergency landing at an airforce base near Newcastle after being struck with mid-air technical problems.
Sam McKeith
Neighbours have recounted the terrifying moment they realised a house on their street had caught alight on Friday morning.
Anna Cox
Council workers have started to fix a 10-metre sinkhole that opened up on an east Sydney street in heavy rain over the weekend.
Arson squad detectives will attend the scene of a house fire in East Victoria Park to determine why it went up in flames.
The death toll from the Brazil floods has risen to 143, as the government announces $A3.5 billion in emergency money to deal with the crisis.
Recovery efforts continue on Indonesia's Sumatra Island where flash flooding and landslides have left dozens of people dead or missing.
Kasparman Piliang
Crews are preparing to conduct a controlled demolition to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland
Lea Skene