Tornado flips ute in WA, golf ball-sized hail damages property. A tornado that flipped a ute and golf ball-sized hail have hit one part of Australia in a cold-weather phenomenon.

Emergency Services Minister Paul Papalia has warned “winter is coming” as he urged households to prepare for Perth’s first major storm of the season due to hit on WA Day.

The WA Day festival in Fremantle at Bathers Beach and the Fishing Boat Harbour is set to go ahead despite a weather forecast of rain and a chance of storms on Monday.

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a groundbreaking novelist, playwright and memoirist whose writings explored the iniquities and ambiguities of colonialism in his native Kenya as much as the misdoings of the ...

Renowned Kenyan author and academic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died aged 87 after a long battle with health complications, his family has announced. × The Standard e-Paper ...

Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o holds up a copy of his book, Weep Not, Child, as he speaks to the audience during a book signing event held in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2015 [File: Dai Kurokawa/EPA] ...

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, one of Africa's foremost novelists, scholars and writers, is dead. This was disclosed by his daughter, who is also a writer, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, on Wednesday in a Facebook post.

Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, who championed African languages in literature, has died at 87. He famously vowed never to write in English again after his imprisonment in the 1970s. His bold shift ...

A key moment in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's life came in 1977 when he was asked to write a play with fellow writer Ngugi wa Mirii for a theater near Kenya's capital, Nairobi. The pair wondered which ...

UWA archaeologist Professor Ben Smith claims the government lied in the executive summary of an 800-page report on industrial emissions and the Murujuga rock art.

Walla Walla County animal welfare check finds frantic dogs, dead cats and birds, and remains of potential protected species in a freezer. WA state investigating.