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Australian Marine Complex's common-user facility is set to come under fresh management in July following a confidential, 10-month long process to find a new tenant for the site.

The state government will fund what promises to be the world’s largest seismic survey in a major data-gathering effort hoped to pin down new mining prospects in WA.

A collaboration among WA's leading research bodies will be created as part of a $25 million investment into growing agricultural research and development in the state.

A new ministerial taskforce will oversee the distribution of $252 million to address the growing pressure on WA's emergency departments and ambulance ramping.

Projects in Port Hedland are progressing as the state government allocates $78 million for Lumsden Point and awards a $21.4 million dredging contract for Spoilbank Marina.

Plans for the state's first children's hospice show a two-storey facility with a basement as public comment for the $25.5 million proposal starts today.

Mark McGowan has told the state’s workforce it’s time to return to Perth’s CBD, insisting the pandemic peak has passed and the finish line is now in sight.

Ukraine could look to Australian expertise in mining and metals processing to unlock its own resources after the war with Russia, according to its ambassador.

WA has recorded 8,889 new COVID cases and seven deaths overnight, as the state prepares to return to baseline health measures.

Border closures and skills shortages have hit state government plans to recruit new approvals officers, with the opposition's Tjorn Sibma saying the challenges had been kept secret.

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.