‘We’ll sk8 up your place day and fkn nite’ BAYSWATER councillors have ignored threats and will relocate a skate and BMX park within Wotton Reserve instead of the Broun Park […]

THE city would soon be covered in smoke, but local school teacher Joel Kandiah captured this image at just the right moment early in the morning of April 28 as […]

RESIDENTS living around Beatty Park Reserve fear their houses will be flooded in the next big rain because Vincent council broke a longstanding promise not to use woodchips in the […]

IN this week’s tale from the Vincent Local History Centre we have the story of Newcastle Street’s nurse Alice Stockley, a pioneering midwife and nurse who supported her family solo […]

WHEN a snap lockdown cancelled Anzac Day commemorations, the Friends of Anzac Cottage had just 27 hours to pull together a replacement virtual service. The Kalgoorlie Street cottage was all […]

WHILE some councils are pulling their funds out of fossil fuels, Perth city council’s just handed miner Kerry Stokes’ West Australian Newspapers $30,000 cash for an event celebrating the future […]

VINCENT ratepayers have footed a $5,274 bill for a few dozen people to attend three Christmas street parties. Vincent council staff approved the “community support grants” in December 2020 after […]

AS an Autumn sun heralded day break across the vast Pilbara on a May morning 75 years ago, dozens of Aboriginal station workers woke to a new dawn. The day […]

FRUSTRATED by the McGowan’s government slow response to solving homelessness, Perth council is planning to open “pop up” accommodation for rough sleepers in carparks or vacant buildings. Lord mayor Basil […]