Mouse numbers have exploded to plague proportions across a state's grain belt, with thousands per hectare threatening crops and straining bait supply
Robyn Wuth
The surviving family members of a house fire that killed two children and hospitalised four siblings and a parent have been discharged from hospital.
Samantha Lock and Tom Wark
An elderly woman is fighting for life after fire took hold of a home in WA’s South West, with a further two women also being treated for their injuries in hospital.
Brooke Rolfe
A 19-year-old has died after his car crashed into a bridge pylon at speed on the South Western Highway.
A small plane has crashed on the outskirts of South Sudan's capital Juba, killing 14 people on board.
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WA Police have urged motorists to avoid the area.
Claire Sadler
A two-storey home in Kronkup, west of Albany, has been completely destroyed after a fire, sparked by a towel left on a chimney flue, ripped through the residence last week.
Melissa Sheil
The young girls — just three and four-years-old — were rushed to Perth Children’s Hospital on April 17, but on Sunday evening both died from their injuries.
A volunteer firefighter who lost his home in the 2011 Japan tsunami is now facing another major threat to his community.
Kentaro Okasaka and Tom Bateman
A young woman was airlifted to Royal Perth Hospital after a head-on two-vehicle collision on Albany Highway in Williams on Saturday morning.
Hannah Whitehead
A worker has been killed in Rio de Janeiro during stage construction ahead of Shakira's massive free concert at Copacabana Beach.
A woman has died in a horror crash on Sunday evening, with WA Police investigating the incident.
Kirsty Lichtenstein
The pedestrian was raced to hospital for treatment, but unfortunately died of her injuries.
A community is rallying around a local family after a house fire killed two children and hospitalised four siblings and their father.
Tom Wark and Kat Wong
An area of Japan that lost nearly a tenth of its population in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami is now facing relentless threatening wildfires.
Officials say a firefighter has died battling a wildfire in Florida, while two large fires in Georgia have destroyed more than 120 homes.
Two decades after the Beaconsfield mining disaster, a community reflects on the tragedy and the survival of two men from deep underground.
A woman is in a critical condition after the crash in Morley.
Caitlin Vinci
Disaster was narrowly averted on an arterial road in regional WA after a truck carrying large volumes of a lethal chemical rolled over.
Adrian Rauso
A quick-thinking neighbour has been credited with helping save the life of an elderly Queensland farmer who lost his arm in a horror harvester accident.
Laine Clark
It is not yet clear how the latest wildfires started in Georgia, but the conditions have prompted the US state's first-ever burn ban.
Russ Bynum and Jeff Martin
A chemical gas reaction involving nitric acid and another substance at a West Virginia plant has killed two people and injured 30 others.
John Raby
The Williams community flocked to meet their local volunteer and career heroes at Lions Park earlier this month with the opportunity to enact real life emergency scenarios, encouraging future recruits.
A man has been killed in a tragic crash involving an e-bike and a bus in Swan View.
Troy de Ruyter
