Hinako Shiraishi

Hayley Teasdale needs about 130 plasma donations a year to avoid life-threatening infections, but the Red Cross says in the past month more than 40 per cent of donors have cancelled their appointment.

Mandy Maysey has three children who live with Tourette syndrome and says the community needs to better understand the condition. Experts agree and say national guidelines are urgently needed. 

They were marketed for their silence, but now the blind and low-vision community are calling for electric vehicles to emit fake noises.

Reptile experts say a persistent rumour has circulated for decades that shingleback lizards, also known as bobtails, keep snakes away. 

The dangerous nature of the early pearling saw divers wearing suits weighing up to 180kgs and constantly battling strong ocean currents.

An image of a young humpback with an adult southern right whale has stunned researchers and left them scrambling to find out if adoption between different species of the ocean giants has been documented.

The review will focus on incarceration rates and the use of controversial punishments.  

It is a longstanding practice, especially by road train truckers on the nation's long interior highways, but this act of politeness is "actually dangerous".

Experts say a spawning event in March that killed thousands of fish has left the Gascoyne town's famous coral reefs pale and lifeless. 

Black-headed pythons are usually found across Australia's north, making this the furthest south the species has been spotted in the wild

WA music industry workers say systemic sexism and harassment are rife in the industry, reflecting damning findings in a recent national report.

Seismologists say an earthquake that struck Cadoux on Sunday may be an aftershock from a magnitude-6.1 quake that hit the town in 1979.

Broome prides itself on being a multicultural melting pot, but recent census data shows a drop in people bringing international cultures to the regional WA town.

The investigation began after Bidydanga and Beagle Bay were locked down earlier this year following 55 false positive cases across both communities.

Two WA fashion designers are selected to feature at New York Fashion Week, topping off a huge year for the growing First Nations fashion industry.

As burglary rates hit their highest level in Broome and Derby, residents take to social media to try to recover stolen items.

More than 10 years ago around 1,400 WA Miner's Right documents were issued in a year. Now, two years into the pandemic, that has increased nearly threefold, and expansion continues to turn over nice nuggets.

"Squeals of delight and disgust" is how a Kimberley holiday lodge manager describes her guests' most recent toad collecting expedition.

Police have renewed their calls for information over a violent sexual assault at a well-known Kimberley tourism hotspot, with more than 100 people providing testimonies or video footage so far.

First responders to a boat crash say they were not prepared for the scale or severity of injuries they encountered when they touched down at a remote tourist attraction.

A woman was "a matter of metres" from where people were listening to music when she was bashed on the head and sexually assaulted. Detectives say they need help to find a man who attacked her.

Normally, there are three nurses in the remote WA community of Kalumburu. Today, only one remains.

A man has died after his vehicle rolled on the Great Northern Highway in WA's East Kimberley overnight.

A healthcare staffer who says she is being driven from her town by youth crime has warned of a safety "time bomb" awaiting international arrivals heading to the Kimberley on work visas.

More than 100 organisations write to the federal government requesting compensation for Indigenous families affected by the collapse of funeral insurance provider Youpla Group.