Joanna Menagh

Kingsley Pickett, who killed pregnant mother Margaret Blurton and her baby son in a 1991 high-speed crash and earned a reputation as WA's worst serial offender, is being released on a supervision order.

Alberto Nicoletti, the former owner and manager of an Italian restaurant in Como, has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges for a series of alleged sexual assaults.

Nicholas Visser first contacted the girl on the social media app Snapchat, then told an internal school investigation the friend request was a mistake he made after a night of drinking.

Prosecutors tell a court Andre Rebelo was in financial strife and murdered his mother to gain access to her money.

The case against the man accused of causing the devastating Wooroloo bushfires - which destroyed more than 80 homes - has been dropped. .

Bailey Jordan Lester was under the influence of methamphetamine and GHB when he stabbed a man to death in a suburban home last year.

Liaqat Ali Zahidi will remain in custody after being found not guilty of attempting to murder a man at a East Perth hostel, with the Supreme Court hearing the 30-year-old was of unsound mind at the time. 

The Perth Children's Court hears the decision to upgrade the charge was made after more evidence was gathered, including the examination of a diary written by the offender.

Confronting footage of an unprovoked and knife attack inside at an East Perth back packers hostel is played to the WA Supreme Court, as the man responsible argued he was not of sound mind at the time.

A court has heard a state-owned electricity company knew about issues that led to a large bushfire for a decade before the blaze. It also heard it would have taken two days to fix them.

Operators of a station in WA's Pilbara will be forced to pay a $50,000 fine over the death of 1,000 cattle suffering from neglect. 

A 55-year-old man who attacked Anna Chaney with an axe in September at the North Perth medical clinic where she worked, after stalking her for years, pleads guilty in court.

A senior Perth karate instructor who sexually abused a teenage student and then threatened to kill her if she reported it to police, is sentenced to eight years jail.

A 24-year-old Perth man who frequented two northern suburbs leisure centres so he could repeatedly make indecent recordings of young children in the change rooms is jailed.

Michael Johnson died in 2020 at the Whirling Dervish mine, 120 kilometres from Kalgoorlie, after he fell 25 metres in a vehicle.

A Perth man, who is already in jail for sexually abusing a teenage girl, pleads guilty to almost 120 charges of the online "sextortion" of hundreds of girls from around the world.

Construction management company Stantec pleads not guilty in a Perth court to failing to ensure the safety of apprentice Jonnie Hartshorn, who died when a glass roof collapsed at a Curtin University building site.

Careless driving-accused Stacey Leigh Cunningham has fought back tears as Perth Magistrates Court hears details of the crash that killed her daughter and stepson in 2020.

Three Perth men, including the grandson of a former West Australian premier, are each sentenced to more than 13 years in jail over a plot to import methamphetamine worth up to $159 million into the country. 

The man, who likely has Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, committed the lewd acts on the bus in broad daylight, which the judge said violated the dignity of all passengers on board.

A Perth karate instructor who denied ever having any inappropriate contact with a teenage student is found guilty of sexually abusing the girl, starting when she was aged 15 and he offered to mentor her.

A 15-year-old who sparked fears of an American-style school shooting pleads guilty to endangering the lives of staff and students at Atlantis Beach Baptist College in Perth's north.

A man who lured two homeless teenagers into his car with an offer of a place to stay before sexually assaulting them in a motel is sentenced to more than 12 years in jail.

A former basketballer who inflicted catastrophic head injuries on a Perth mother of five fails to convince a Supreme Court judge he is not guilty of murder.

Juan Daniel Visagie, who has a history of domestic violence offences, is sentenced to 11 years in jail for killing his baby daughter.