TINY turtles raised by the villagers of Bayswater have been released back into nature. The eggs were laid in Deborah Bowie’s backyard, just near the Carter Wetland in Bayswater and hatched in September. But with the neighbouring wetlands partially cleared for a housing development, the locals stepped up to help raise the wee testudines by…

FERTILISER might help your garden grow, but its overuse is killing the Swan River, says Gardening Australia presenter Josh Byrne. Each year around 250 tonnes of nitrogen and 26 tonnes of phosphorous leach into the Swan River, resulting in algal blooms that reduce oxygen levels in the water and can kill fish, he says. The…

THE foundation stone for the original St Luke’s Anglican church was laid 110 years ago, and in the years since it’s changed a lot to meet the needs of a new demographic around Maylands. In 1900 the suburb was staunchly working class, home to workers from the Maylands Brickworks, Aerodrome, Schulstad’s Engineering Works and Mills…

NEW local government minister Paul Miles has backed lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi’s stance on forbidding councillors speaking to the media Opposition leader Mark McGowan has reiterated calls for the council to be sacked. Three councillors — Jemma Green, Reece Harley and James Limnios — want the policy scrapped so they can communicate their views to…

HISTORICAL tapestries depicted 240 years of Quaker history in Australia are going on display at Quaker Meeting House in Mt Lawley. The Quakers separated from the Church of England in the mid-1600s and are marked by their strong pro-peace stance and emphasis on worldly works. They have a long tradition of tapestry, with one of…

THE eighth annual Perth Heritage Days are on this weekend with the theme; “Perth — How We Worked”.  Heritage Perth is running tours of historic places like Government House, the 1892 Palace Hotel, and the newly (and splendidly) restored Trades Hall on Beaufort Street which was done up when CFMEU moved in. There’s even a…

PERTH lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi has been reported to the local government standards panel for allowing ally Janet Davidson to steal fellow councillor Jemma Green’s thunder over a vote on a media gag. Cr Green had put forward a notice of motion before the September 20 meeting which would have paved the way for councillors…

LORD mayor Lisa Scaffidi was quizzed by a Northbridge local at Tuesday’s council meeting over a donation to councillor Lily Chen’s campaign for the state seat of Mirrabooka. Graham Hansen submitted the question, which read: “I understand that you donated a gift to Lily Chen’s election campaign for the Liberal Party in the seat of…

THE public transport authority has removed three bus stops along a discontinued stretch of bus route 15 despite a challenge to the service’s axing being before WA’s supreme court. Members of the Senior and Disabled Bus Action Group (Sandbag) claim Transperth discriminated against people with poor mobility when it changed route 15 last year, with…

WA LABOR is still butting heads with the Barnett government following a decision to pull support from a handful of childcare centres around the State. Of the 310 not-for-profit community childcare centres in WA, 33 operate from state-managed properties with rent and maintenance assistance, but this is set to cease from June 2018. Equal playing…