In short: WA's auditor-general has found 10 major WA government IT projects, including an upgrade to the SmartRider public transport system, are a total of $1.6 billion over budget.

In short: The WA government has cancelled a $9.8 million contract with tech company Seisma Pty Ltd, which was designing a pet portal to help stop puppy farming.

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.

WA is the nation’s biggest economy, which has seen the state government deliver a surplus every year since 2018-19, driven by a huge revenue from mining royalties and a bigger slice of the GST.

With the eradication goal deemed “no longer technically feasible”, the government is moving to a “management” response to the highly invasive polyphagous shot-hole borer.

Democratic lawmakers will consider recommendations from a Washington Health Care Authority workgroup that would effectively turn the state into a drug dealer by offering drug addicts access to a ...

WA Premier Roger Cook is gearing up for his first budget as an elected premier. Credit: Tony McDonough Saffioti has all but confirmed that the $400 electricity credits that have artificially kept ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.