WA Police

A police investigation is under way after a gunman went on a rampage, threatening people and plunging a small town in Western Australia's Wheatbelt into lockdown.

The convicted killer and rapist cut off his ankle monitoring device and has been on the run for more than 24 hours.

A group of people were one street, "in the process of calling police" when officers made the grim discovery.

A 19-year-old man charged after a series of baffling events in Western Australia's mid west has been granted bail.

Police are appealing for the public's help to locate an 11-year-old girl missing for two days south of Perth.

Police are investigating reports a 12-year-old girl was approached by a man while walking home from school in Perth on Monday.

Four others, including a four-year-old boy, were also injured in the crash.

A couple in their 50s have died and another couple, also in their 50s, have been taken to hospital after a car rolled onto its roof in Boxwood Hill.

Officers took an hour and 15 minutes to reach the domestic violence victim following multiple calls to triple zero.

A WA man has been charged for allegedly exposing himself and performing obscene acts - including in front of young girls.

A nasal spray used to treat drug overdoses will soon be carried by all police officers in Western Australia.

A mystery object believed to be space junk has been removed from a Western Australian beach as questions swirl about where it came from and where it will end up.

A police officer killed in the line of duty has been given a final salute in an emotional funeral in Perth.

Police said the scene was "very confronting" for emergency services.

A woman has been hit and killed, trying to wave down another driver after her car broke down in Western Australia.

The Perth girl's collarbone and leg were broken on impact but the driver did not stop after hitting her at a pedestrian crossing.

A 51-year-old man from Western Australia has been charged over four historic sexual assaults from the 1990s.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man forced a woman out of a parked car and threw her into oncoming traffic in Perth, forcing a truck to swerve out of her way.

Detectives from the state's homicide squad are investigating.

The 23-year-old Belmont man is facing a litany of charges after he allegedly ran over and dragged a police officer who was attempting an arrest.

Detainees involved in a riot at a Perth detention centre have been taken back into custody after "extensive damage" was caused in the unrest spanning more than 14 hours.

Police allege the 68-year-old travelled from China to Perth but stopped in Melbourne where he met with a 29-year-old about a proposed business deal and flew with him to WA on April 23.

A court heard the teen "wasn't thinking" as they watched CCTV footage of the deadly incident.

A man remains under police guard after a Perth mother-of-two was allegedly stabbed in front of her two children.

A father is praising his older son for fighting off a man and raising the alarm after his younger brother was also allegedly taken by a kidnapper.

The teenagers, aged 16 and 17, were allegedly armed with hammers to ransack a local grocery store.

Detectives say a teenage girl was assaulted by a stranger on New Year's Eve at Thomson Bay, Rottnest Island, between 10.15am and 12.30pm.

A teenage aged care worker has been charged with murder after a grandmother died at a WA aged care home last month.

Three people are on the run after a fiery, high speed crash on a Perth freeway, which witnesses described like a scene out of movie Fast & The Furious.

The plane crashed in the Caiguna area, about 350 kilometres west of the Western Australia-South Australia border, around 9.30am Friday.

Diane Miller, who was allegedly struck in the head with a piece of concrete, leaves behind an eight-month-old son.

A pregnant mother's loved ones have said what they fear could be their final goodbyes as she fights for life in a Perth hospital.

Diane Miller's family are preparing to say goodbye today after doctors gave her hours to live after a teen allegedly threw a piece of concrete at her.

A trio is undergoing surgery after an alleged machete attack in Western Australia. (Warning: graphic content)

A teenager could be free in just three months after being sentenced over a violent, broad-daylight robbery on a pregnant Perth mother.

The 20-year-old claims "about 10-12 of them just started pummeling me and stomping on me" after he asked them to stop riding their dirt bikes.

Lloyd Rayney is wants WA Police to re-investigate his former wife's murder, which remains unsolved 15 years after her body was found in a bush grave, claiming new clues have come to light.

Homicide detectives have been called to investigate a man's death in the town of Mount Barker in Western Australia.

Her family's been told she's no doubt dead but what happened to her that stormy night in 1988 will likely remain a mystery.

An alleged Perth drug kingpin is behind bars abroad after a dramatic arrest in North Macedonia.

An elderly WA woman is in Fiona Stanley Hospital after she was allegedly mowed down in her own driveway in a carjacking ordeal.

Two young men have been charged after a 28-year-old man lost an eye after being allegedly struck by a potato in Perth.

The body is believed to have been in bushland near Kalamunda, WA for a "couple of days" before the woman's grim discovery.

Police are searching for two people seen leaving the area before the "deliberately lit" fire exploded.

The 70-year-old used self defence she learnt in the army, winding her attacker before taking on his accomplice, hitting him "hard in the scrotum".

WA Police confirmed today that their investigation had been finalised and no criminal charges had been laid.

Another two teenage girls have been accused of a violent daylight attack on a woman in Perth, just weeks after a teen was filmed assaulting a pregnant mother pushing a pram.

The man allegedly made three separate attempts at approaching children, and tried to entice them to get into his car.

Police are hunting a gunman in Perth today after a man was shot dead in a suspected gang-related killing.

Police have launched an investigation after a 16-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted at an oval in Western Australia.