FOR two weeks, 90-year-old Jim Grace has been showering with a bucket and been unable to use his gas stove. He is one of more than 100 Maylands tenants affected by gas being cut off following the detection of leaks in their Tenth Avenue strata complex. Mr Grace and his neighbours have been told by…

WITH a few final pleas of support from locals, Vincent city council voted Tuesday to give a symbolic thumbs up to WA transport’s bike boulevard plan for Shakespeare Street in Mount Hawthorn. The project’s designed to make the street safer for bike-riding, slowing traffic down to 30kph and installing treatments to make it crystal clear…

DARRYL MOORE and Alannah MacTiernan see eye to eye at last — they’ll both be disappointed with last weekend’s Liberal preselection decision for the federal seat of Perth. The party’s candidate in 2013, he had hoped to get the nod for this year and retiring Labor MP MacTiernan had hoped he would too. But no,…

THOUSANDS of small dead fish have been found near Lake Monger, floating together in vast rafts of rotting flesh in the waterway between the lake and Mitchell Freeway. The stench hung heavy in the air as another species — larger and darker — weaved through the corpses, competing with birds to nibble at the dead.…

IT’S not the thing you expect to hear from one of Perth’s heritage experts but Richard Offen describes the thoroughly modern glass-clad exterior of the new city of Perth library, in the midst of historic Cathedral Square, as “the heritage of the future”. While many might picture heritage buffs as pernickety fusspots complaining a building’s…

WA police pipe band is turning 50, and to celebrate it will organise a Ceilidh and additional performances.The band, which performed in the Royal Edingbrough Military Tattoo in Melbourne just a few weeks ago, will hold a dinner and dance on April 8 to raise funds for future performances. The event will include a meal…

POSTPONUS AGEISTUS! Adult Pottermaniacs desperate to attend a Harry Potter day reserved for children have cast a spell, causing the event to be postponed so organisers can figure out how to cater to a wider age group. The City of Perth library vastly underestimated the legion of grown up Harry fans dead-keen to get into…

BAYSWATER council is finally showing commitment to greening its city, says councillor Chris Cornish. At the annual autumn festival last weekend the council handed out 3000 native plants. “There was a dozen choices, from up to two-metre high trees to ground cover,” Cr Cornish told the Voice. “There was a big focus on plants and…