If there’s one lesson from Western Australia’s mining boom, it’s that money can buy you everything — except an imagination. A decade and a half of hyper-accelerated growth, wealth and corruption has ...

A private Perth company led by former oil and gas executive Andrew Ross is close to realising its vision of building artificial wave parks across Australia. For Mr Ross, URBNSURF brings together his ...

The Beldon mother-of-two expects it will take her about six hours to complete the 42km marathon course while pushing her youngest daughter, three-year-old Abigail, in a pram. But she said despite the ...

The 13-year-old Activ ambassador is confident he will be waiting at City Beach Oval for his father and aunty as the trio compete in the 41st City to Surf. Father Wayne Rudd, 64, said he had no doubt ...

Mullaloo Surf Life Saving Club, in Perth's northern suburbs, has developed its own shark detection system after a club member had a very near miss with a great white three years ago. The BeachLAB ...

Chris Hemsworth has welcomed American surfer Kelly Slater to Perth and even joined him on the surf. The Hollywood actor, 39, put his tour guide hat on as Slater arrived Down Under this week to compete ...

There are a number of places you might choose if you want to go surfing in Perth, Australia, but Alfred Cove, on the Swan River, probably isn't one of them. It might be soon, though, courtesy of plans ...

SLSWA released the advice before Christmas after more than a dozen drownings last summer and an “extreme” number of rescues ...

A 40,000-seat stadium set to be demolished next year could be replaced by an urban surf park - with 220 waterfront apartments, an expansive plaza and a limitless supply of perfect waves. Currently, ...

World No.1 Iga Swiatek and Top 10 ATP star Hubert Hurkacz swapped their racquets for surfboards on Thursday in Perth, where they visited Scarborough Beach with the rest of their United Cup teammates.

Two months ago, Lauren Walker married the love of her life, Trent Walker, exchanging I Dos in the state’s idyllic Margaret River area. However, two weeks ago, Mrs Walker was forced to say goodbye to ...

The first surfers at Nias were joined by a backpacker who got sick and vanished. When a film about their ‘discovery’ of the spot screened in Australia, the woman’s remarkable story finally came to lig ...