Gareth McKnight

A group of six Chinese nationals are detained by authorities after two of their group were found in WA's remote Kalumburu community by an off-duty police officer.

Cyclone Fina is tracking inland in WA's far north as a category one system.

Children as young as 10 have been arrested as stolen vehicles are driven recklessly at police cars.

Ian Brooke, who police allege stabbed his foster brother to death in November 2023, has been deemed unfit to stand trial.  

But the liquidated Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund, which collapsed in 2022 and lost many Indigenous customers thousands of dollars in premiums, will not have to pay a cent of the penalty.

A man who raped and tried to kill a five-year-old girl in WA's far north, and then attacked a support worker with a knife while on parole following his 22-year jail term, is set to be re-released into the community.

Preparations are under way in Western Australia's north for a tropical cyclone likely to form off the state's northern coast early on Sunday.

A tropical low north off Darwin is heading south-west towards the Kimberley coast.

The 58-year-old man was sentenced in the Broome District Court on Friday for offences committed between 2015 and 2017.

WA police confirm they have found the body of a 79-year-old man who capsized while rafting in the Kimberley's Drysdale River.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says Tropical Cyclone Dianne is expected to form around 8pm on Friday evening off the Kimberley coast .

The Bureau of Meteorology says there is a high chance of a tropical low forming into a cyclone in waters off Western Australia's coast on Friday evening.

Emergency services have gone into the third day of searching the remote Kimberley after two people fell into the water at Drysdale River National Park on Monday.

Alby Thompson, who was struck by a car in a residential part of Broome, is being remembered for his "laughter and love".

Footage of a police officer appearing to throw a man to the ground on a public oval in Broome is being widely circulated on social media.

The tropical cyclone has left a widespread impact across the Pilbara region and emergency services have their hands full with the recovery effort.

Residents, authorities and pastoralists in the state's north are preparing for a potential cyclone to form in the next two days as a tropical low heads towards "cyclone alley".

Christopher Alan Saunders will appear in court next week on six new charges, including one count of sexual penetration of a child under 13. 

Community leaders in Wyndham say the Albanese government's pledge to widen trade at the Kimberley town's port and boost infrastructure is well overdue.

Police say vehicles were driven at pedestrians, a man was attacked and several fires were started during a chaotic day of violence in Halls Creek.

Western Australian Museum has been forced to remove a video from one of its popular exhibits after the ABC highlighted the man in it was a convicted sex offender.

WA Police failed to effectively respond to repeated calls for help before a woman was killed by her partner Warrick Walkerbear, a coroner has found.

Passengers are met with bizarre scenes as a television personality wrangles a snake onboard a plane in Western Australia’s north.

Zachary Chapman, 29, was last seen on Sunday and police had concerns for his welfare. However, he was found on the Gibb River Road on Tuesday afternoon.

Police say a woman who was bashed and sexually assaulted at a Cable Beach 'bush doof' lives with the aftermath of the attack.