VINCENT mayor Alison Xamon wants the state government to give councils more advice to try and stem the number of local laws being knocked back by one of its oversight committees. Over the past few years several councils have tried to pass laws to keep cats confined at home, only to have them rejected by…

THE STS Leeuwin is back out sailing, while the foundation that runs the training vessel is emerging from voluntary administration and trying to calm the waters for volunteers left seething by the treatment of its former CEO. Carol Shannon’s sudden sacking by Leeuwin’s board of directors back in April sparked a volunteer mutiny and staff…

THE third and final stage of the Dianella BMX and mountain bike track is ready to go, finished just in time for the school holidays. It’s been a long race to the finish line for the the project, with Dianella’s Regional Open Space being having been pegged as the ideal spot for a dirt BMX…

PERTH’S Safe Night Space for women may live on at a new location in Ruah’s existing James Street facility in Northbridge. In the meantime the Cook Government has announced $210,000 for interim emergency accommodation for women who’d otherwise have slept in the East Perth SNS before it was closed down. The funding was described as…

A CHILD wandering away from Camp Australia’s out-of-school-hours care at Coolbinia Primary has seen the operator hit with a $14,000 penalty. It was one of three levelled against Camp Australia this week for similar scenarios across an incident-filled summer of 2022-23. The four-year-old child was attending a school holiday care program at Camp Australia’s Bradford…

LOCAL authors from the Vincent Writers Group have compiled a new tome titled Scribblers with a View.  The work follows on from their second anthology Reflections and Introspections from 2019, a well-received collection of poems and short stories. The new book was launched at Mt Hawthorn’s Bodhi Tree Bookstore Cafe on November 29, and is…

WE got fabulous entries of all shapes and sizes for our Summer Reading competition, so thanks to all the creative souls who got cracking. We’ll be running them over the next month, then we’ll announce the winners. First cab off the rank, is Nick Hingston’s reflections on a time he spent working in WA’s beautiful, but…

“PRISONERS in our home” – a midge plague around the Maylands peninsula lakes has residents unable to step outside without being swarmed by countless insects. Some are refusing to pay their rates in full until Bayswater council deals with the pests.  Several residents grew emotional at the December 5 council briefing as they described the…

STERN new speech restrictions being considered in Bayswater would require councillors to “clearly state” they weren’t representing the views of the City of Baywater when making any public comment, even when posting family photos on Facebook.  Some councillors were flabbergasted at the December 12 meeting, believing the proposed Communications and Social Media Policy goes a…