Perth's Australia Day fireworks display was cancelled after a plane crashed into the Swan River, killing two people on board.

After pouncing on a burglar and conducting a citizens arrest, these Kiwi tradies have become Aussie heroes.

Veteran Aussie Brad Hodges has joined the chorus of disapproval calling Brendon McCullum's ban "a mockery".

The hunt is on for a rogue quokka who hitch-hiked from Rottnest Island to a Perth waste and recycling facility.

Auckland commuters can groan in agreement with a report that reveals the city has the worst travel times and reliability in Australia and New Zealand.

A man is in a critical condition after being trapped under a fuel truck at Perth Airport.

These girls vanished without a trace from Perth over past 30 years but their families are still waiting for answers.

GRAPHIC WARNING: Let this be a lesson to everybody tempted to go without jandals at the beach this summer.

The long-running investigation into the Claremont murders has gripped West Australians for the past two decades.

A student may not have pleaded his case out of a parking fine, but he has certainly won the support from social media for his hilarious efforts.

A teenager of Maori descent was racially abused and her friend was bashed by a man on a bus in Perth, commuters have claimed.

A schoolboy sent home for sporting a short haircut has earned an army of supporters after his mother vented her outrage on talkback radio.

This record-breaking flight is expected to take off from Perth next week. And at 17.5 hours non-stop, it's only for the brave.

Mother of six did not want baby she starved to death, court told.

A Perth family has copped a $100 fine for parking in their own driveway. They're "really angry", and are determined to avoid paying it.

Mother wants her son to be remembered as a 'beautiful soul' not as a drug addict who was dismembered with a chainsaw.

After seeing her 10-year-old son, who weighed 80kg, struggle to finish a school race, this mum decided it was time to make some changes for her family.

Friends and family are using social media to plead for sightings of a New Zealand man missing in Bali.

The Australian creator of the Hamdog is hoping to score big when he auctions off the patent to his weird food creation.

An indigenous Australian man has come up with what many are saying is the perfect response to racism.

Beekeeper charged with bringing cocaine into Australia has applied to go to detention centre if he gets bail.

Greg Pickering reckons he's the luckiest bloke in Australia - and not because he's survived two shark attacks.

Police are trying to determine how a man's body could have gone unnoticed for nearly three days in the toilet of a Perth fast food restaurant.

A Perth child psychiatrist accused of child pornography offences in Australia and Canada is now facing a similar charge arising from a NZ police investigation.

Worshippers at mosque hear a loud bang and find a 4WD on fire.

A woman has died after a shark attack off the northern Perth coast, just days after the death of a surfer.

A body believed to be that of missing 37-year-old Sean Mitchell has been found in Perth's Swan River.

The anxious wait continues for the family and friends of Kiwi man Sean Mitchell who has not been seen for more than a week.

Western Australian police say they're keeping an open mind about the disappearance of a Kiwi man who has been missing for more than a week.

Perth has been left battered by a wild storm that has knocked out power to 60,000 customers.