by—Phoebe Phillips Fremantle city planners have begun meeting with residents to develop ways to deal with a growing population. Nearly 250 people participated in the Fremantle City Council’s launch of Fremantle 2029 which explored solutions to housing, transport, environment and economy...

–by Carolyn Rebeiro Graphic video footage of a WA cow, dubbed Jacob, being tortured in Egypt for ‘fun’ has been exposed by animal activists calling for an urgent ban to live exports. In the video, published by Animals Australia on the banliveexport.com website, Jacob has his eyes poked out,...

-By Cassandra Sim Half of all plants and a third of animals will lose more than 50 per cent of their habitats by 2080 if greenhouse gas emissions are not lowered,  scientists say. According to a study published on Nature Climate Change, early mitigation of climate change could help reduce the risks to...

–by Rhovie Hulleza Dogs date back to more than 30 thousand years ago, yet a Chinese study finds dogs may have been domesticated earlier than previous studies suggest. Ya-Ping Zhang and colleagues performed whole-genome sequencing- figuring out the order of DNA bases- of grey wolves, Chinese indigenous...

–by Melissa Blom Gilded masks, amulets and ancient Egyptian spells are just some of the artefacts that will take visitors on a 3000 year journey back in time at the Western Australian Museum. Perth will be the only Australian city to host the prestigious “Secrets of the Afterlife” exhibition that...

–By James Whittington Dressed in everything from suits to safaris, hundreds of people have travelled thousands of kilometres in old cars to raise more than $1m for the Cancer Council. A record 168 rundown cars arrived in WA on the weekend as part of the fourth annual Shitbox Rally. Ten WA teams...

–by Phoebe Phillips Nearly 60 babies have been born into detention in the past three years, according to the Australian Asylum Recourse Centre. But a spokeswomen from the Department of Immigration refused to comment on how many of these children remained behind bars in WA. Meanwhile, refugee activists...

–by Sydney Menezes The CSIRO are in the middle of creating a new range of new robots to assist humans in the workplace. The new robots are being designed to carry out specific tasks that aren’t as easy for humans. Their Stealth Robot has the aim to track and observe animals while blending into the...

–by Sarah Ammon Students and staff gathered at UWA on Wednesday to protest against the Labor government’s $3 billion funding cuts to tertiary education. The rally highlighted the possible fallouts of the cuts, like larger class sizes as well as the cutting of courses. “Education should be a right...

– by Cassandra Sim Teenage girls are more susceptible to the risks of passive smoking than boys, according to a study of more than 1000 Perth adolescents. The results, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, found girls with exposure to passive smoking had fewer high-density...