Traders petition to keep bin service BUSINESS owners are petitioning Vincent council not to abandon its commercial rubbish collection. A rapidly-filling petition titled “Don’t treat us like garbage” asks the […]

Fires an ‘accident’ THE charred remains of Tent City in East Perth are now almost completely uninhabited. After months of campaigning for their right to shelter, 44 rough sleepers from […]

MORE than $10 million is needed to refurbish Bayswater Waves as yet another council grapples over an expensive aquatic centre. “Urgent roof repairs” are needed, the gantry lighting system’s busted, the […]

A STATE government-funded cafe selling $3 coffees has been undercutting private enterprise, city cafe owners have complained. The Crew & King Cafe is run by the Perth Theatre Trust and […]

BAYSWATER council will soon begin the long process of unpicking its complex rates system after giving some homeowners a “Covid-19 concession” in last year’s budget. The strange concession, dubbed “not […]

NAMES are being sought for the soon-to-be revamped Leederville laneway between the Leedy Hotel and the ABN Group HQ currently under construction. The laneway’s been dingy for years but is being […]

THE National Trust WA received funding last year to run its first writer in residence program. The funding came from the Department of Culture and the Arts, which in 2019 […]