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Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of General Secretary of the Synod, Bishop Emeritus of Gozo, was born in Qala, Malta, in the Diocese of Gozo on 20 February 1957.

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Pope frontrunner heads to Broome after Bishop sex scandal

A senior Catholic figure who was in the running to be next Pope is heading to Broome weeks after the town’s former Bishop was jailed for sexually abusing young Aboriginal men. 

Caleb Runciman

Arianna Rose Ladbrook-Kitis was just 19 when she was dropped her best friend, India Lee Prestidge, at her Arlunya Avenue home, in Cloverdale, on the evening of April 3, 2026.

CrimePremiumBudding teacher learns fate for silly bonnet-riding stunt

A budding teacher has learnt her fate over an idiotic bonnet-riding stunt which landed her best friend in hospital with a traumatic brain injury.

Jessica Evensen

A man has been sentenced for reckless driving.

Courts & JusticePremiumCeiling fixer learns fate over dangerous police pursuit

A 30-year-old ceiling fixer who led police on a dangerous high-speed chase along Wanneroo Road has been sentenced.

Camila Egusquiza Santa Cruz and Justin Bianchini

Kalgoorlie Courthouse.

Courts & justicePremiumMan started fight outside Exchange Hotel and ignored police

A Kalgoorlie-Boulder man who started a fight outside the Exchange Hotel and ignored a police order to stay away from the area has been fined in court and granted his second spent conviction.

Isabella Davis

Aaron Samuel Baddeley was sentenced on a domestic violence related charge.

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Details of horrific violent assault by Albany man revealed

A former Albany real estate agent who attempted to force pills down his partner’s throat when she tried to leave him has avoided immediate jail, as the details of the horrific incident were told in court

Jacki Elezovich

Haydn Thomas Mansell is on trial for careless driving causing death after a rail-crossing crash involving his wife.

courtsPremiumMoments in lead-up to fatal rail-crossing crash revealed

Officers from major crash have revealed the moments leading up to the crash that killed Cailee Mansell, with the vehicle’s speed and time of braking key parts of evidence given in day two of the trial. 

Jacki Elezovich

Tara Morrison (pictured) was killed in Busselton in 2024.

Courts & JusticePremiumViolent murderer sensationally testifies against co-accused

A young mother who violently murdered a woman in Busselton has sensationally testified against her co-accused just two weeks after admitting to the brutal stabbing. 

Jessica Evensen

Jia Xu Dong

Courts & JusticePremiumPuppy farmer jailed over horrific dog neglect

A Perth magistrate has described a prolific puppy farmer as a ‘devious and dishonest individual’ who put profit ahead of the welfare of more than 100 dogs seized from his property. WARNING: DISTRESSING DETAILS

Hannah Cross

A Perth driver accused of being behind the wheel in a drug-fuelled crash which killed her passenger has pleaded not guilty.

Courts & JusticePremiumDriver accused of fatal Ellenbrook crash enters teary plea

Chanelle Marie Harris was charged with four offences after her MG station sedan allegedly ploughed into a Ford Ranger in Ellenbrook on May 12 this year.

Jessica Evensen

A Perth man will head to trial defending allegations he murdered a young woman at an eastern suburbs property in August this year.

CrimePremiumPerth man enters plea over St James woman’s murder

Younis Qambari appeared in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court on Wednesday via video link from Casuarina Prison where he pleaded not guilty to one count of murder. 

Jessica Evensen

Kalgoorlie Courthouse.

Courts & justicePremiumNorseman man denies possessing child exploitation material

A Norseman man has denied possessing child exploitation material and will face a District Court trial.

Isabella Davis

Kalgoorlie Courthouse.

Courts & Justice PremiumMan jailed for near-fatal stabbing over ‘expensive jacket’

A Kalgoorlie-Boulder man came close to killing his uncle when he stabbed him in the shoulder in an unprovoked attack because he was angry at him for wearing his expensive jacket.

Tegan Guthrie

Kalgoorlie Courthouse.

Courts & justicePremiumSpent conviction granted so DV-accused man can volunteer

A Coolgardie man who pinned his former partner against a wall and punched her in the face has had four other domestic violence charges dropped by police prosecutors.

Isabella Davis

Port Kennedy man convicted over emaciated horse

Sound TelegraphHorse left starving as WA owner hit with massive fine

A 41-year-old Port Kennedy man has been ordered to pay up after failing to feed his six-year-old horse, leaving her emaciated.

Ava Berryman

Gareth Price (pictured) has pled guilty to the murder of Craig Washband.

CrimePremiumMan admits to brutal meth-fuelled murder of stranger

Gareth Edward Toll Price has pled guilty to a brutal meth-fuelled murder of a complete stranger in Armadale last year.

Jessica Evensen

Haydn Mansell leaves the Albany Justice Complex after the first day of his trial on October 27.

courtsPremiumFootage of fatal Redmond rail-crossing crash played in trial

An Albany court has viewed dash-cam footage and heard from the driver of the train involved in a rail-crossing crash that killed a young mother last year, as her husband stands trial over the tragedy

Jacki Elezovich

Notorious paedophile Bradley Pen Dragon will make a bid for freedom in the coming weeks.

CrimePremiumNotorious Perth child abuser’s bid for freedom

Bradley Pen Dragon will make a bid for freedom in the coming weeks as he seeks to change his plea over a raft of breaches of a strict supervision order. 

Hannah Cross

Jordan Thomas Andrew Pearce, 43, did not apply for bail at his first court appearance in Albany.

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Katanning man makes first appearance on drug dealing charges

A Katanning man accused of dealing methamphetamine and was nabbed with allegedly stolen jewellery and more than $2200 in dodgy cash during a traffic stop, has appeared in court for the first time.

Jacki Elezovich

Kalgoorlie Courthouse.

Courts & justicePremiumTrial to go ahead for WA man accused of abusing cat

The Kalgoorlie-Boulder man who denies causing a cat unnecessary harm will face a trial in May next year.

Isabella Davis

A woman has been jailed after she beat a relative with a metal pole.

Courts & JusticePremiumWoman jailed for leaving relative laying in pool of blood

A woman has been jailed after she beat a relative with a metal pole and left her laying in a pool of her own blood in Boulder.

Tegan Guthrie

Zygmunt Depczynski was found to have died at the Blowholes in 1973.

Coronial inquestPremiumMissing man perished at Blowholes in 1973, says coroner

The fate of a father who disappeared from Albany’s Blowholes in the 1970s has been determined by a coroner more than 50 years after he was last seen.

Melissa Sheil

A 30-year-old woman has been jailed after she attempted to smuggled meth and heroin from Perth to Albany.

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A woman who was stung by police in Kojonup while acting as a drug mule to traffic methamphetamine and heroin from Perth to Albany to wipe her own drug debt has learnt her fate in court.

Melissa Sheil

The 48-year-old chose a bizarre selection of items from the church to steal.

courtsPremiumBizarre church theft results in order for Katanning woman

A Katanning woman who twice broke into a church and stole a washing machine, cleaning products and food after the pastor told her she could use the showers in the facility has been sentenced in court.

Melissa Sheil

A 13-year-old boy accused of a brazen drive-by shooting on a Gosnells’ home will stay behind bars for another six weeks as his mother tries to find stable accommodation to support a bail application.

Courts & JusticePremiumBoy, 13, kept locked up over drive-by shooting on Perth home

A boy accused of a brazen drive-by shooting on a home in Gosnells will stay behind bars.

Caleb Runciman