WHATLEY Crescent businesses in Maylands have banded together to survive the Covid-19 storm, tossing aside rivalries to share deliveries. Chapels on Whatley co-founder Keith Archer said it would’ve been a struggle staying open while going it alone. He sells some tea online, but 85 per cent of his business is from people coming into the…

70 per cent of economy yet to sign up for the ‘war’ HERALD EDITORIAL WITH Coronavirus spreading like wildfire only 30 per cent of the economy shut down by government decree is doing the heavy lifting to reduce social interactions, slow the infection rate and reduce pressure on the health system. And what a price…

VINCENT’S verge rubbish collection, colloquially known as “Bring out your Dead” day, will not be happening during Covid-19 restrictions.  Usual bin collections will continue but the bulk pick ups due to start April 20 have been canned for now. A council report says “the city’s contractor has raised serious concern regarding their ability to undertake…

Commr says support a ‘political response’ to Covid-19 PERTH’S commissioners have invoked the Covid-19 crisis to support an apartment complex at Elizabeth Quay that’s 26 storeys above guidelines and critics say threatens to clog the precinct with cars. Brookfield had two projects at the quay before the council’s March 31 meeting; a 56-level apartment tower…

AN already-ailing arts industry has been dealt a devastating followup blow with several key pillars of the local scene failing to get funding from the Australia Council.  The Blue Room Theatre and Barking Gecko didn’t have their four-year funding arrangements extended after making it through to the final selection stage. They have instead been given…

EVERY day thousands of our fellow citizens go to work and court an ugly, painful death.  These are the front-line staff and volunteers in hospitals, health centres, local surgeries, St John’s Ambulance, Aged Care and the welfare sector battling the scourge of Coronavirus swirling around the world. We all know some of them as family,…

IT’LL be a very different Easter service for Sonlife church’s congregation this weekend as they log into an online sermon. Sonlife’s senior pastor Binh Nguyen says leading a church through a pandemic never came up in seminary, and he’s had to think “how do we still have community and fellowship, and that ability for people…