Keane Bourke

Western Australian taxpayers will fork out up to $4 million to restart a second brick making facility in the state as the construction industry continues to grapple with labour and raw material shortages.

The conversion of WA's COVID-era quarantine centre into a prison could be one step closer, with the Justice Department calling in architects to look at how it could be repurposed.

A mentally impaired man was kept in jail illegally and denied suitable mental health care because of a chronic lack of beds in the state's only psychiatric facility caring for prisoners.

A homelessness camp recently disbanded by authorities in Perth's south is just the tip of the iceberg of a growing challenge. Just ask those on the frontline.

For more than 50 years, it has sat as a prize just beyond the reach of major Australian and international oil and gas players.

WA politicians have voiced their concerns about an increasingly hostile political landscape in the west, and the limited options available to address it, after an attack on federal MP Helen Haines.

A man charged over an allegedly threatening incident at Labor MP Hannah Beazley's office has told a Perth court he was holding a musical instrument, not a weapon, as police allege.

A man who allegedly threatened staff at Hannah Beazley's electorate office was known to police, the commissioner reveals, as he urges politicians not to retreat from their communities.

It's been a difficult week for even the most hardened of politicians in Western Australia, with an increase in hostility at their workplace prompting plenty of soul searching.

In many ways, the work of a politician is the work of a salesman. And that sales pitch begins at party state conferences, where leaders sell their vision to their most faithful followers.