The state government has tightened restrictions for travellers from high risk jurisdictions, while signing new directions which will require those in the healthcare sector to be vaccinated by 2022.
The state government announced it will employ another 170 graduate nurses in COVID-response roles, the same day new figures laid bare the strain on Perth's biggest hospitals.
Western Australia will reintroduce a hard border with New Zealand from midnight tonight, while travel from NSW will be halted under the state's new ‘extreme risk' rating.
The state government must cut environmental approval times and rethink its new onshore export ban to make Mark McGowan's gas-powered manufacturing plans a reality, a report shows.
The state government will provide quarantine assistance to arrivals from Kabul, as part of Australia's mission to evacuate people from the Taliban-controlled city.
Some operations at Fortescue Metals Group's Cloudbreak mine have been suspended and Qantas has cancelled flights after a mine worker returned a weak COVID-positive result.
Fortescue Metals Group has commenced contact tracing of up to 2,000 workers at its Cloudbreak mine after a maintenance contractor tested positive for COVID.
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and its projects have won a $1.7 million grant from the state's medical research fund, while UWA researchers will receive $1.2 million.
A further six crew members on board a cargo ship docked at Fremantle Port have tested positive for COVID-19 overnight, taking the total number of cases on the vessel to nine.
Two unvaccinated healthcare workers are in hotel quarantine after potential exposure to COVID-19 during the transfer of a sick crew member from a Fremantle cargo vessel yesterday.
About 60 Western Australians are expected to peacefully end their own lives within the next 12 months under newly implemented voluntary assisted dying laws.
Western Australia has recorded no new cases of COVID-19 overnight, as those in the Perth and Peel regions enter the third day of the four-day circuit-breaker lockdown.
A Western Australian woman who visited Sydney and returned home has contracted COVID-19, prompting increased restrictions including mask wearing indoors.
Rosanna Capolingua, a former president of the state and federal branches of the AMA, has been appointed chair of the health department's child and adolescent health services.
Cancer Council WA has been awarded a $2.1 million grant from Healthway for public health campaigns over the next three years to encourage healthy lifestyles.
Aged care sector leaders say it is difficult to recruit skilled workers when the award for nurses in the industry is about 30 per cent less than those working in disability or hospital settings.
The Australian Medical Association and Australian Nurses Federation are planning a rally outside Perth Children's Hospital to address "systemic problems".
Asian engagement is still critical to the state's trade agenda, Deputy Premier Roger Cook said today, while acknowledging the government may have muddled its messaging in recent weeks.
Premier Mark McGowan has called for an easing of hostilities between health unions and executives as the fallout continues over the death of Aishwarya Aswath.
Premier Mark McGowan says he's concerned by revelations about staff culture at Perth Children's Hospital exposed in a report into the death of Aishwarya Aswath.
