CAMPING gear that Perth city council confiscated from Matagarup activists has gone missing or been destroyed. The council confiscated truckloads of gear last year in an attempt to stop mainly […]

RETIRING federal Labor MP Alannah MacTiernan says new-fangled schooling is no good, and she wants a return to more structured reading, writing and arithmetic. At a public forum last Saturday […]

HUNDREDS of activists flooded Forrest Chase Monday in a snap protest of the Turnbull government’s dropping of parts of the Safe Schools program. The program’s designed to stop homophobic bullying […]

JACOB’S LADDER near King’s Park will stay closed pending “immediately” required repairs. Popular with exercisers but a bane for neighbours tired of 5am huffing and grunting, the stairs were closed […]

PARLIAMENT HOUSE is getting surrounded by drones, with three beehives installed around the outer gardens. It’s a three-way project between UWA’s Centre for Integrative Bee Research, parliament house and hobbyist […]

BAYSWATER is abuzz with news the council is considering saving a massive hive of bees from a dying tree earmarked for the chop. Bee man Joseph Kwintowski notes a colony […]

BAYSWATER railway station will get a facelift using money left over from the Forrestfield Airport Link, transport minister Dean Nalder says. Community group the Baysie Rollers met with Mr Nalder […]

IT’S meant to be a living wall but Perth council’s horizontal garden at the Northbridge Piazza looks more like the living dead. Formerly known as the “green wall” it’s been […]

ANGST over plans to redevelop Charles Street is a storm in a teacup, Mt Lawley MP Michael Sutherland says. The Barnett government says its $31 million widening and bus lane […]

SACRED HEART primary school kids got up close with the turtles this week in a class excursion to Hyde Park. The year 2 kids met UWA researchers Blaine Hodgson and […]