Plumbers, sparkies, brickies and carpenters could be paid $10,000 for finishing their apprenticeship in a new promise to woo votes and build more homes.
Jessica Wang
Richmond’s No.1 pick Sam Lalor has revealed how the Tigers’ bumper draft class is tracking as the pre-season games approach.
Ed Bourke
A review into a state's education system calls for a boost to literacy programs, a trial of a UK-style model grouping schools together and other measures.
Rachael Ward
Primary school-age students are not walking or riding to or from school in the numbers they once were as parents' concern grows over road safety.
Callum Godde
A man is suing a State Government over horrific sexual abuse incidents he alleges occurred at the hands of family members while he was a ward of the state.
Emma Kirk
Tributes have begun pouring in for a man found dead in a park near a primary school, with another man in police custody.
Alexandra Feiam
The action-comedy animation series follows four cadet lifeguards — Pounce the kangaroo, Frizzy the koala, Neville the wombat and Gemma the platypus — who keep the water safe at Kangaroo Beach.
Jessica Evensen
A man has been flown to safety after taking a horror tumble down a cliff while holidaying at a popular tourist destination with his family.
Blake Antrobus
Demand for a coveted place in WA’s selective high schools is so competitive that some parents are signing their kids up for tutoring as young as eight years old.
Bethany Hiatt
Shane Descleves-Montgomery knows just how tough it is to make it through the selection process for a gifted and talented program in a WA public school.
Australia's future economic growth and research prospects are at risk with meagre incomes deterring prospective candidates from undertaking a PhD.
Jacob Shteyman
New data has ranked three public high schools in Perth’s south among the top 10 in the State.
Caitlin Vinci
A ridiculously talented Australian wildcard says his exhausting childhood was “quite tough”, but he’s revelling in the Aus Open spotlight.
For people living in rural and regional areas, one-on-one visitations services are making mental health more accessible, while addressing confidentially concerns for people living in small towns.
Anjelica Smilovitis
A WA charity which provides school backpacks and stationery for children in need is seeking urgent donations from the community after receiving almost 15,000 requests from desperate families.
Rhianna Mitchell
Private schools are preparing to campaign for more money from the government as parents look for ways to keep up with rising education costs.
Jack Gramenz
Parents are spending big out of safety fears, dipping into their savings to afford an item for kids at a shockingly young age.
Thomas Sargeant
Perth is now the nation’s second-most expensive city to educate children at a public school, with costs rocketing more than 30 per cent in a year.
A teacher at a prestigious school that charges up to $39,000 a year will fight allegations he groomed a 15-year-old child for sexual activity.
Adelaide Lang
As WA parents prepare to dip into their pockets to cover back-to-school costs, many fear they will not be able to afford classroom supplies.
Two teenagers have been charged after allegedly setting fire to a school and causing more than $30,000 in damage.
Nathan Schmidt
Becka Hume-Cook first suspected her son had an addiction when he was seven years old. Two years later, she dreads the short, one-word answer she gets when she asks how his day was.
Ella Loneragan
The City of Busselton has helped schools recognise students’ academic achievements at their end-of-year school awards
More than 800 public schools in one state are set to undergo a suite of changes amid claims of an “unacceptable” backlog of works.
Clareese Packer
