Daughter and younger sister of fallen NZ soldier Luke Tamatea get boost from Camp Legacy.

The 17-year-old was surfing with her dad in West Australia when she was bitten.

A Perth man won $1 million in the lottery just weeks after losing his job.

A Perth man set his daughter three-year-old alight because she was "too beautiful".

A primary school in Australia has banned cartwheels. Student's parents are not impressed.

Air New Zealand is farewelling the wide-body workhorse that opened up the Pacific Rim.

A Kiwi tourist has been charged with animal cruelty on Rottnest Island.

Hundreds gather at marae to pay their respects to Diego Hulton, who was killed outside a Perth bar.

The man whose "crazed" driving led him to collide head-on with a car, killing a woman, had just endured a "very bad year".

A shy Aussie teenager posted on Facebook a request for a date to his school dance - and now the offers are flooding in.

A woman who died in the plane crash on Perth's Swan River uploaded footage to social media just before tragedy struck.

Police from the task force investigating one of Australia's longest running cases, the Claremont killings, swooped on a house in a quiet Perth suburb.

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.

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

West Australian police played down reports a man taken into custody today is in relation to the historic Claremont serial killings.

A young woman's Perth investment property has been trashed after the tenants threw a huge party that attracted about 200 teenagers.

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.