WHILE Aboriginal actors occasionally make it onto our TVs and movie screens, Aboriginal producers and directors on the other side of the camera are even more rare. Murray Street-based Yirra […]

SCOUTING is booming in Perth, with so many kids desperate to sign up that Scouts WA is scrambling to find enough scout halls and volunteers. Subiaco has a four-year waiting […]

RESIDENTS face being slugged a 3.5 per cent rates rise if Bayswater council can’t recoup the $1.2 million it spent on the Barnett government’s aborted mergers process, a local councillor […]

A THIEF who hates the sound of children’s laughter has stolen one of the bronze Gumnut Baby sculptures from the CBD’s Stirling Gardens. The two sculptures were installed a decade […]

FEDERAL and state MPs are backing a residents’-led campaign calling on Bayswater council to fly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags all year round. Currently the flags fly only during […]

ARTISTS across Perth have garages full of paintings, sculptures and other strange creations, all because they never get around to selling them. Mt Lawley painter Sioux Tempestt says many artists […]

LABOR’S Alannah MacTiernan (right) will hold a meeting on the NBN at Bassendean community centre on April 1—no, it’s not a joke. The federal MP is pushing for local suburbs […]

MOUNT HAWTHORN will have its own streets and laneways festival, following the runaway success of similar events in Beaufort and Angove Streets. Community organisation Mt Hawthorn Hub and Vincent city […]

SPORTING clubs in Bayswater who lease buildings on council land will now get free rubbish removal. Cr Alan Radford, who pushed for the move, says clubs will save more than $300 […]

THE dysfunctional Newcastle Street/Carr Place intersection has an upgrade on the cards to turn it into a mini piazza. Just near the busy Leedy hotel, the area’s a mess of […]