A Perth teenager who took her own life within hours of leaving hospital had attempted suicide 25 minutes before being allowed to leave, a review finds, as her mother calls for improvements to mental health care. 

Experts are warning younger children are presenting with increasingly complex mental health needs as a new report predicts a nationwide shortfall of child and adolescent psychiatrists. 

Attendance at this year's Perth Royal Show has hit a 10-year low, as organisers blame "heavy downpours" amid complaints from vendors about a lack of support.

Police charge a 28-year-old man after he allegedly stole two vehicles and crashed one into a petrol station in Western Australia's south, with the moment of impact caught on video.

A huge convoy of hay-laden trucks is making its way across the Nullabor from Western Australia to drought-stricken South Australia in what one young volunteer describes as a "journey of hope".

Australians are being encouraged to swap American goods for home-grown products at the check-out, but is it that easy?

Simon Lewis knew the Clune family, who died in an apparent murder-suicide last month, and says his own experience with his severely autistic daughter means he can relate "to what they were going through".

Australia's disability discrimination commissioner condemns "dangerous narratives" surrounding the deaths of teenage brothers Leon and Otis Clune, saying the burden of disability should never be a justification for family violence. 

WA Premier Roger Cook says the deaths of a family of four at their Perth home in an apparent murder-suicide is both "heartbreaking" and "unimaginable". 

An entire family has been found dead in their own home — a mother, a father and their two teenage boys, with police describing the event as "highly distressing" and a "devastating tragedy".

A WA prisoner who died in hospital after fatally self-harming in his jail cell could be alive today had authorities responded appropriately to his calls for mental health support, a coronial inquest finds.