Briana Shepherd is a multi-platform reporter in the ABC News WA newsroom. She also presents the local TV news bulletin. She has worked for the ABC since 2015.
A coalition calls for action to help the "huge hidden population" of young people in Western Australia who are experiencing homelessness, with children left feeling ashamed and alone even in the safety of school.
A homemade "fragment bomb" thrown into a crowd at a Perth Invasion Day rally yesterday was hidden in a child's sock with a Disney character on it, a woman who picked it up tells the ABC.
A 31-year-old man is charged with making explosives in suspicious circumstances after a device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of hundreds of people attending an Invasion Day rally in central Perth yesterday.
Three males are charged over the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old in the Perth southern suburb of Aubin Grove on Christmas Eve.
A 20-year-old man is charged with grievous bodily harm after Tim Picton, who spearheaded the campaign behind WA Labor's landslide 2021 victory, was allegedly assaulted in Northbridge.
Two seafood companies that conduct trawling in the Pilbara region launch legal action in the WA Supreme Court against the state government's new demersal fishing restrictions.
A review into the death of newborn baby Tommy Starkie reveals multiple failures in the care provided to his mother during her labour at Perth's King Edward Maternity Hospital earlier this year.
Dual Richmond premiership player Marlion Pickett receives a suspended prison term for possessing and dealing with proceeds of crime, in what a judge calls a "line-ball decision".
A serious crash on one of Perth's major freeway's brings train services to a halt and caused traffic chaos in the city's south.
The WA government is urged to toughen penalties for e-rideable offences and punish retailers who help people modify e-rideables to break the rules, after an inquiry sparked by the death of a Perth father.
A home owner who lost his house and his cat to a bushfire in Geraldton, in WA's Mid West, says "karma" is looking for anyone who may have deliberately lit the blazes.
Seven stores across Perth found to be selling illegal tobacco and vapes have their lotteries licences terminated, as attempts to disrupt the illicit and growing trade continues.
The deputy premier accuses the Town of Victoria Park of lying to ratepayers over the controversial $217 million entertainment and sporting precinct in Burswood.
A former Perth teacher who abused four schoolboys in the 1970s and 80s, in behaviour a District Court Judge described as "predatory", is jailed for 16 years.
Linda Reynolds is suing the Commonwealth and its lawyers over the handling of Brittany Higgins' $2.4 million compensation settlement, yet has removed specific allegations against the former Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus.
WA's consumer watchdog says scams are getting more sophisticated and cheaper to make, as an AI video of state premier Roger Cook sparks new concerns.
The state government defends spending $1 million on an advertising campaign about Western Australia's GST deal, as the fight to protect the state's carve-up of the distribution ramps up.
Two police officers were allegedly assaulted while shutting down an out-of-control Halloween party attended by hundreds of people in Perth's southern suburbs.
Perth's new Women and Babies Hospital will open on time in 2029, the state government insists, but it says the $1.8 billion budget may blow out.
The number of West Australians who voted at the weekend's local government elections is slightly down on previous years, following calls for participation to become mandatory.
Homicide squad detectives charge a 33-year-old man with manslaughter over the sudden death of a 25-year-old man in Perth's south-east.
An Australian-first pilot program gets underway in WA in the hope of not only giving the parents of children with complex needs a break, but helping them navigate the maze of different support systems.
More than 100 firearms are seized in a WA Police operation targeting 'sovereign citizens' in the wake of the fatal shooting of two Victorian officers.
Emergency services found the woman, 81, unresponsive at the scene in Doubleview and took her to hospital, but she couldn't be revived.
Witnesses used hoses to try and douse flames that engulfed a boat at Hillarys Boat Harbour, causing thick plumes of smoke to billow over the popular family destination.