The “unintended failure” of a commercial fishing net has been blamed for an event that forced the closure of a Perth beach.

Coogee Beach has been closed due to hundreds of dead fish which have appeared in the water. Beachgoers have been told not to ...

A number of tiger sharks were spotted by a keen wildlife videographer last week, who even used his drone to warn a woman that ...

Perth’s iconic Cottesloe beach has been shut down after a two-metre bronze whaler shark breached the barrier net on Wednesday morning, winding up trapped on the swimmer side of the ocean.

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A woman who fled war-torn Ukraine has drowned after being swept off rocks in front of her family. Olya Tikhanova, 40, was taking a picture at s Salmon Beach in Esperance – about 700km southwest of ...

An investigation is underway after a shark found swimming inside Cottesloe Beach’s shark barrier was shot and injured.

A woman has died after she was swept off rocks at a remote beach on WA ’s south coast. The 40-year-old from Perth was ...

A shark has become trapped on the swimmer-side of a net, shutting down an iconic Aussie beach, with one local taking ... Picture: ABC News Perth. Surf life savers first discovered the breach ...

It is currently not known how the shark managed to breach the net. Picture: ABC News Perth. Surf life savers first discovered the breach at 8am Wednesday morning before ordering swimmers to ...