Class sizes in WA schools will increase next year because no teachers are being employed to cope with almost 10,000 extra students. Education minister Peter Collier’s media minder Russell Yeo confirmed to the Voice this week the state’s 21,000 teachers will have to absorb “less than half a student per teacher” as a result of…

STIRLING mayor Giovanni Italiano indulges in some friendly sledging outside the new $4.66 million changing rooms at Grenville Reserve. After seven years planning and work, the rickety club and change rooms in Tuart Hill have been replaced by a state-of-the-art sporting and multi-use facility. Users include the Titan’s Woman’s Football Club and Tuart Hill Cricket…

A POPULAR on-road cafe plan has been canned—for now—following accusations it was tantamout to favouritism. Vincent city council had trialled the on-road cafe—ORC for short—outside Foam cafe in Leederville, turning a couple of carbays into a mini al fresco area, echoing set ups in San Francisco. It was so well utilised neighbouring councils came sniffing…

THE folding of the Swan River Trust into the WA parks and wildlife department will not affect funding for current and future projects along the Swan River, says WA environment minister Albert Jacob. Former Bayswater mayor Terry Kenyon and Labor Maylands MP Lisa Baker have expressed concern various projects could fall by the wayside. Their…

Vincent’s new deputy mayor Ros Harley warns Oxford Street’s residential area could be forever changed for the worse if the council keeps approving the spread of offices. The council voted to approve a plan to knock down a 1929 home and erect a three-storey development, which will mostly be offices with five units up top.…

The original stonework of the Alexander Forrest statue has been revealed after Perth city council workers removed a lime wash coating on the base. The statue by Pietro Giacomo Porcelli was erected in 1903 to pay tribute to the famed surveyor (a brother of Sir John Forrest), who died in 1901. Situated at the busy…

Docos chart the Hyde Park Hotel When Woolies turned the old Hyde Park Hotel into a boutique watering hole, independent music in Perth suffered a blow and artists were left to cry in their beer. Fridey at the Hydey documents the last years of the pub and its hey-day as a punk venue, and features…

School pack facts about the Anzac legend School kids will get to learn all about the men and women who offered up their lives for their country, thanks to an education drive at the Anzac Cottage in Mt Hawthorn. Anne Chapple says a Lotterywest grant will help pay for a primary school information pack. “It…