Piper Duffy is a multi-platform reporter with ABC News. She joined the ABC while finishing her journalism degree at Curtin University.
As a teenager, after being shifted through five foster homes, two refuges and a semi-independent living, Rose felt she was better off living on the streets.
Rose Taylor spent her teen years in foster care and on the streets. Now she's using her experience to ensure others don't fall through the cracks.
Along the east coast of Australia, grey-headed flying foxes are being found dead and malnourished. Without their nightly pollination, experts say it could spell disaster for forests and other animals.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says the plane involved was a kit-built aircraft.
Experts are warning a suspected flying fox mass starvation event across the east coast of Australia could disrupt the health of forest ecosystems.
More than 40,000 spectators attended the "modern day corroboree" on Worimi Country at Raymond Terrace in New South Wales.
Planned train track works will not go ahead on the day of the NRL grand final after hundreds of Newcastle Knights fans were stranded at stations following a freight service breakdown ahead of the preliminary final.
Two men who sexually penetrated a child in a van with a mattress in the back and seats removed will serve at least a year in jail.
A month after administrators were called in, the Cliff Head oil platform prompts a safety warning from the Maritime Union of Australia.
Charges of indecent and unlawful assault against obstetrician John Mateljan, 74, were discontinued, with the doctor awarded $45,000 in court costs.
Low water levels for the 2026 Avon Descent whitewater race have prompted a 17-kilometre cut to the course to avoid competitors running with their kayaks.
Australia's first new oil refinery in decades is touted for WA. A site under consideration in the state's Mid West faces a big hurdle in connecting to power.
Charities sponsor new program to deliver specialist hearing checks and services directly to school students in WA's Midwest.
As junior oil and gas companies Pilot Energy and Triangle Energy enter voluntary administration, an aging oil rig is sitting idly at sea off the coast of WA's Midwest.
For most of his life, Cam Sojan knew nothing of his family history until he stumbled upon a historical society in Western Australia's Midwest last year, which revealed his Sikh ancestry.
From cooking for farmers during seeding or creating a meat box that "wasn't edible", these chefs from Western Australia are now showing off their skills on a national stage for this year's season of MasterChef Australia.
This week, phones in some regional towns have received a warning text alert and emitted an alarm as part of national warning system testing. Next month, your phone could receive it too.
The life of a world famous architect-turned-Catholic priest is being examined to decide if he should be named Western Australia's first saint. John Cyril Hawes constructed more than a dozen famous church buildings across regional WA.
As a major miner seeks approval to extend its magnetite ore operations in regional Western Australia to 2048, shires are increasingly concerned about ensuring there's enough groundwater to go around.
Kalbarri residents will be forced to travel more than 100 kilometres to visit a doctor when the regional WA town's only GP clinic closes due to financial pressure.
Topic: Doctors and Medical Professionals
A Midwest city council buys Crown land for $1 to develop more than 100 dwellings to house key workers, but WA's shadow local government minister says it is an example of more responsibility being placed on councils.
In the midst of a mass coral bleaching event along the West Australian coast, a group of scientists have discovered a section of reef that has been able to withstand the heat.
Geraldton police investigate whether complaints about hooning were behind an alleged assault that left a father-of-three in a critical condition.
Geraldton residents say dust from expanding iron ore operations is blanketing homes, boats and businesses, fuelling fears the coastal city could turn into "the next Port Hedland".
Jardyn Rigo is sentenced to more than six years in jail for killing music promoter Andrew Scally in a street fight.
