The man who allegedly drove his car into oncoming traffic during a highway rampage in Western Australia has been charged with murder.

A mother has captured a tender moment between two brothers as one battles cancer.

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

Rotorua father Diego Hulton is still in a critical condition in a Perth hospital after he was brutally beaten in a pub carpark.

A Rotorua man is fighting for his life after he was beaten by two men in a Perth carpark.

Eight men became part of an evil group of depraved paedophiles. Their victim was barely a teenager.

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

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.

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

A record amount of rainfall in Australia has closed its famous national park at Uluru in what is described as a "twice a century" weather event.

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

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.

Mother of five never wanted baby whose decomposed body was found in a cooler bag in the shed.

The small town of Walpole is not as well known as Broome or Margaret River but it might just have WA's - or even Australia's - best tour guide.

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

Kiwi scientists have helped reveal the universe in glorious technicolour, with incredible new images reflecting on one of the widest-ever radio-wave surveys of space yet.

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

Stunned fishermen spotted a gigantic alien-like ball floating off the coast of Western Australia before it was devoured by hungry sharks.

Givealittle page set up for retired beekeeper who was caught at the Australian border with 6kg of cocaine hidden in the lining of his bag.

A groom is in mourning after two members of his wedding party were killed in a crash that took the lives of three Kiwis in Western Australia over the weekend.

Three childhood friends from Southland who decided to move to Perth together have been killed in an accident in Western Australia.

Three New Zealand men have died in a single-car crash on an unsealed road in Western Australia's remote Wheatbelt region.

Pamela Wade meets some cute Kiwi expats on an island near Perth.

Overlooked Perth offers Anna King Shahab more dining options than she can possibly hope to sample at once.

A free guided tour in Perth's Kings Park is a great way to get a feel for the subtly beautiful Western Australian flora, finds Anna King Shahab.

Police officers executing a drug search warrant in West Australia found a three-month-old emu, but didn't uncover any narcotics.

Floral carpets put spring in Anna King Shahab's step on this coastal trail.

A stretch of Australian beach is transformed by abstract artworks, writes Pamela Wade.