Lauren Smith is a Wongutha woman and journalist with the ABC's state newsroom in Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia. She's worked with the Indigenous Specialised Reporting team in Sydney as a national Indigenous affairs correspondent. Lauren has covered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities on Menang country while working at ABC Great Southern.
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An interim report into the collision between a container ship and the sail-training ship STS Leeuwin in Fremantle Port last year provides new details on the accident, which severely damaged the Leeuwin and injured two of its crew.
Experts believe the increasing standardisation of education is hurting students, but some alternative schools are using a different approach to help kids discover their passion for learning.
Topic:Solutions
Western Australia could be on track for its worst outbreak of measles in the past five years, as infections in Hakea Prison cause chaos in the courts and the list of exposure sites grows.
The warning level for a bushfire burning in Ledge Point, north of Perth, is downgraded as authorities reveal the blaze was deliberately lit.
Landowner Tony Maddox is fined $2,000 and ordered to pay costs after building a bridge on his property in contravention of the state's Aboriginal Heritage Act, despite claiming he had never heard of the legislation.
Police charge a 75-year-old woman with the alleged murder of her roommate at the Bethanie Waters Aged Care Home in Port Kennedy, south of Perth.
West Australians are bracing for heatwave conditions from Sunday as residents in the state's north are being urged to prepare for wild weather as a cyclone forms off the Pilbara coast.
A long-awaited upgrade to the problem-plagued Peel Health Campus appears a step closer to fruition four years after the state government committed to taking the facility out of private hands.
A dog behaviour specialist believes a Rottweiler which inflicted serious injuries on a four-year-old girl at a WA beach should not have been allowed to roam free, despite the beach allowing off-lead dogs.
The wreckage of a seaplane that crashed off Rottnest Island on Tuesday afternoon, killing three people, has been pulled from the water and taken back to the mainland for further investigation.
One of Perth's most popular swimming beaches is closed after a shark was spotted circling inside a barrier designed to keep sharks out.
WA Labor's family violence prevention election pledges are welcomed by the sector but criticised by the opposition for not being enough to address the problem.
Finding spaces for artists to exhibit work in a major city is expensive, but one creative initiative is re-imagining empty shop fronts.
Just three days before Christmas, a child is dead and neighbours are reeling after witnessing a fatal house fire, which one described as "hell on earth".
Perth residents are warned to brace for heatwave conditions as temperatures are expected to soar above 40 degrees Celsius from Sunday.
As mpox cases continue to rise across Australia, a gay venue in Perth is offering free vaccinations and screening in a bid to get ahead of a potential outbreak.
Disgraced former Labor MP Barry Urban is fighting for his life in a Perth hospital after being attacked at work.
The eight-year-old is in an induced coma after the quad bike he was on overturned on near Ubud, in Bali's central region.
More than a year after one of Australia's more controversial referendums, "where to from here?" is a question many continue to ask. But there are hopes truth-telling will help to heal deep wounds in Western Australia.
Topic:Explainer
Rottnest Island has for years been a beloved holiday destination for families and celebrities alike, but there have been renewed efforts to educate visitors about the coastal paradise’s dark history.
WA's P-plate drivers will be banned from carrying more than one passenger in their first six months behind the wheel, under changes announced by the State Government.
A city councillor in Perth who was allowed to keep his job after being found guilty of indecently assaulting three young women, has now resigned.
A driving assessor who indecently assaulted three women while they were in the car with him will be allowed to remain on a Perth council.
Andrew McQualter is appointed as West Coast's new head coach on a three-year deal, with the Eagles praising his "firm vision of what needs to be done" in taking over from Adam Simpson.
A man is sentenced to 11 years in prison for a horrific crash last year that killed a woman and left four others injured.