The hospital on Tuesday said it had been co-named the Noongar phrase during NAIDOC Week, following extensive consultation with at least 20 First Nations people.
Jessica Evensen
Thousands of nurses and midwives have launched the next phase of their campaign for fair wages, saying the latest pay offer falls short.
Andrew Hedgman
A man has died after his paraglider plunged 20m during a horror aviation incident.
Nathan Schmidt
Concussion issues have ended a young Essendon gun’s 2025 season and the AFL’s concussion panel has had its say on his future.
News Corp Australia
Marked by muscles withering away and the inability to speak and eat, motor neurone disease is fatal and affects more than 2500 people in Australia.
Farid Farid
Two thirds of West Australian children under five years old have never been taken to a dentist, an alarming new study has revealed.
Dylan Caporn
The budget carrier attached to Air India was reprimanded about delayed checks and forging records months ago, aviation regulators say.
Staff Writers
As West Australians turn to non-alcoholic alternatives this Dry July, experts say cutting out alcohol can have health benefits in just a week - let alone a month.
Claire Sadler
Respiratory syncytial virus cases are surging in WA after hospital admissions increased 45 per cent last month.
Hannah Cross
The Opposition has renewed calls to fund the B strain of the meningococcal vaccine after six out of the seven recorded cases of the potentially deadly disease in WA this year were identified as type B.
The WA Department of Health has sent an urgent reminder to medical staff to make sure they’re giving patients the right RSV immunisation after receiving reports of some being given the wrong type.
The fourth case of the rabies-like lyssavirus has led to a man's death in hospital, several months after he was bitten by a bat.
Jack Gramenz, Tom Wark and Fraser Barton
The three-time Olympic Gold medal winner has shared the three powerful words that kept her alive when she contemplated ending her own life just days ago.
Peta Rasdien
The World Health Organisation is campaigning for significantly higher taxes on tobacco products, alcohol and sugary drinks.
The death of a child due to influenza has been recorded, as the Health Minister described this year’s flu season as the worst in a decade — and experts warned the school holidays will supercharge the spread.
Outgoing chair of the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research John Barrington says achieving WA’s comprehensive cancer centre is well and truly more than just a pipe dream.
Chance Flowers spent two weeks in hospital and had surgery after suffering life-threatening symptoms from Strep A.
Rebeka Petroska 7NEWS
A man is critically ill after becoming only the fourth known person in Australia to be diagnosed with a rabies-like bat virus.
Fraser Barton
More cutting-edge housing for people living with disability has opened in Perth.
Justin Bianchini
Cancer Council WA is encouraging people in the Great Southern to quit alcohol for a month and pick up a hot drink for this year’s Dry July fundraiser.
Hannah Whitehead
Cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology is being used in Australian IVF labs, offering fresh hope for would-be parents struggling to have children.
Rachael Ward
A planeload of Australians are dying every month to drug overdoses, a new analysis of fatality statistics has shown, sparking calls for more work from governments.
More West Australians than ever are being admitted for their long-awaited elective surgeries after the Department of Health recorded its highest number of admissions in a week.
