IT must be Perth’s most controversial toilet with locals packing the public gallery to debate a new loo going in at the small but overpopular Hobart Street reserve. One-hundred-and-twenty-seven people […]

They’re so PC—but in a good way A GROUP of Perth volunteers is refurbishing thrown-out computers and sending them to children in developing countries. Since 2004, the group has sent […]

HOWZAT RON WILLIS of Mt Lawley takes issue with Wisden on the Ashes for, amongst other things, claiming to be ‘the authoritative story of cricket’s greatest rivalry’. IN 2009 Wisden […]

CAMPING out in cars in Vincent’s streets has been banned after backpackers ruined it for everyone with boozy, messy sleepouts. More backpackers have been camping out on streets now that […]

FOR years Perth has been the only major city in Australia without a jazz festival (OK, Darwin too). But after a few local jazzy sorts like Graham Wood from Ellington […]

BIG BROTHER is watching you in Beaufort Street. Stirling city council has added another four CCTV cameras to the Beaufort-Walcott Street intersection, taking the total number of cameras in the […]

A COUNCIL-sponsored community bus is on the cards to deal with a “problematic and grossly inadequate” public transport network. Vincent city council staff say there’s a “poor connecting transport network […]