MOUNT HAWTHORN local Fiona Elmer has won a national award for supporting fellow families affected by the potentially fatal mitochondrial disease. Her four-year-old son Aidan failed to thrive after birth and was diagnosed with “mito” following a lengthy two-year process. It’s the second-most commonly diagnosed serious genetic disease (after cystic fibrosis) but little is known…

MAYLANDS’ main street will have a “bleak future” if it gets turned into a thoroughfare for buses, the Maylands Business Association warns. The Public Transport Authority is looking into running a permanent bus route down Eighth Avenue between Whatley Crescent and Guildford Road, but the MBA says a trial has proven it will be an…

TWO local artists have won a commission by Perth city council to add to the city’s ongoing photographic record of Perth. Graham Miller’s work A Place in the Sun focuses on people captured candidly around the city streets or lounging in local public spaces. As a foil, Jacqueline Ball’s work Swimming Home focuses on the…

PERTH lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi and the local government department have failed to reach  agreement during mediation at the State Administrative Tribunal. The department’s now in charge of prosecuting Ms Scaffidi over failing to declare gifts and travel, and the mediation was intended to prevent the issue going to a full public SAT hearing. Ms…

AFTER a fruitless search for the stolen gumnut baby sculpture Perth city council has installed a newly commissioned replacement. Based on May Gibbs’ Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the artwork at Stirling Gardens was installed more than a decade ago but last March a hooligan stole one of the babies. It would’ve required a fair amount of…

THE future of the ageing Maylands Waterland park is at stake with Bayswater council facing a big repair bill if it’s to stay operational. The place opened in the late 70s and is nearing the end of its operating life. It’ll cost around $2.7m to $2.9m to fix, plus another $220,000 to run between November…

MAYLANDS’ ailing lakes and how to address their degradation will be the focus of an information session this coming Monday, October 24. The session follows a 12-month water quality study, with consultants preparing a range of options on how to deal with toxic levels of algae and contamination from the old brickworks. Chlorinated Whatever the…

NORTHBRIDGE pharmacist Julie Adams has won WA’s leg of the Telstra Business Woman of the Year. Ms Adams joined forces with nurse Lorna Cook in 2013 to create Chemo@Home, which as the name suggests allows cancer patients to receive their treatment without having to attend hospital. Nationally accredited, the pair’s treatment is covered by private…

STIRLING has suggested a few tweaks to the Barnett government’s transport plan for Perth. The document lays out an overarching plan for handling the transport needs of 3.5 million people (Perth’s expected population by 2050), but Stirling reckons the transport department is too fixated on heavy underground rail and underestimates how many people will walk,…