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COVID cases in WA have risen by 8,392 and 10 historical deaths overnight, as the state opposition calls for an end to employment vaccination mandates.

CBD and Yagan Square are getting more cash to end decay.

Labor dominated Facebook and Instagram feeds across WA last week, trumping the Liberal Party's social media advertising outlay in the state by a nearly two-to-one margin.

WA will remain in a declared state of emergency until the "appropriate time" despite most public health measures being lifted on Friday.

The state government has made its second payment, out of 12 instalments of $63 million, to the Noongar Boodja Trust.

The state government has announced plans to end the indoor mask mandate from Friday, following mounting pressure from the opposition and the state’s business community.

Defence analysts, government bodies and political figures agree that WA needs a dry dock, but how the federal government builds one is less straightforward.

The need for greater self-sufficiency is coming into stark focus as established trade practices are upended by tariffs and war in Europe.

The Child Protection Minister Simone McGurk has been in the headlines about dysfunction within the Department of Communities. Now, more than $100 million will boost funding.

Premier Mark McGowan has tested positive to COVID, after having a second PCR test while isolating at his Rockingham home.

Federal opposition spokesperson Anthony Albanese has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of his imminent visit to Western Australia.

Control of the Tawarri Hot Springs deal has been taken from the City of Nedlands, but the city's mayor is pushing for the state government to reconsider.

WA’s daily COVID cases have spiked again, with 9,134 new infections and two historical deaths recorded overnight, as the state government expands the flu vaccination program.

The state government has committed about $20 million to prepare an "extraordinary" solar eclipse event for the thousands of visitors expected to visit WA.

A specialised unit inside Banksia Hill Detention Centre for juvenile offenders is in a state of crisis with acute staff shortages, regular breaches of human rights laws and an on-going threat from a group of detainees known as the "suicide squad".

Fuel taxes have long been a bugbear of Australian politics.

Shipbuilder Austal has emerged as a beneficiary of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Easter campaign blitz in Western Australia.

Scott Morrison has used his trip to Western Australia to announce grants for eight businesses in the mining and energy sector, with the biggest grants going to two new hydrogen hubs.

Conflagrating ambulance ramping with the Omicron surge seems like a search for political cover.

The McGowan government has enlisted a "waste minimisation" group to help small business cope with the looming ban on many single-use plastic products.

Former Labor candidate Tristan Cockman has had his lawsuit against key WA Labor figures dismissed, one year after claiming he was unfairly sidelined during preselection.

Most of Western Australia’s remaining close contact and gathering rules will end at midnight, after the premier announced a suite of changes to COVID management.

This second article of a two-part series poses questions about the value of allies and alliances, and how Australia can shore up its regional defences.

Labor’s top recruit for Christian Porter’s old seat poured thousands of dollars on online advertising last week, while two at-risk Liberal MPs shored up their position with a spate of Facebook ads.

The state government’s $13.5 million proposal for a new COVID-19 patient facility in Perth’s south has been approved in a swift decision by its own development panel.

WA’s daily COVID cases have jumped again, with 6,349 new infections and three historical deaths recorded overnight, including a man in his 30s.

Pressure mounts on attorney general over Palmer evidence.

A disability workforce retention fund and a campaign to attract workers are among the seven initiatives awarded funding to grow the sector’s labour force.

From keeping people out of WA as health minister to luring them in under the tourism portfolio, Roger Cook has had a busy couple of years.

Perth's lord mayor has called for WA's mask mandate to be rolled back by the end of the month, while declining to get behind removing the state's vaccination requirements.

More than 1,000 COVID cases from last month were only reported to WA Health yesterday as the state records a drop in daily case numbers overnight.

WA's attorney general has blamed a "memory failure" and having to operate under "a lot of pressure" for giving incorrect evidence at the defamation trial between billionaire Clive Palmer and Premier Mark McGowan.