Tears as What the Flip loses its spot at Hyde Park  A BUSINESS owner was brought to tears by a Vincent council decision that’ll see his food van banned from operating in Hyde Park. Vincent council will instead lease a storage shed in part of the park’s western building to the operators of Mount Lawley’s…

A NEW easy-access vaccination clinic’s opened up in Northbridge after the major vaccine hub at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre had to close due to upcoming events bookings. The PCEC hub delivered some 123,000 vaccinations since receiving its first batch of vaccines in March this year.  The new 16-booth Northbridge clinic is at 30…

WITH Movember recently putting the spotlight on men’s health, particularly cancer, it felt the right time to chronicle my own recent experience with testicular cancer. A word of advice for all men, but especially young men, is to be vigilant of any strange lumps on your nuts; push past the awkward embarrassment and have it…

HE’S performed around the world with Cirque Du Soleil and the Australian Ballet, but now Robbie Curtis is coming home to star in not one, but three Fringe World shows. His versatility is perhaps best showcased In the Arms of Morpheus, an entertaining mix of comedy, magic and physicality.Inspired by the Greek ‘God of dreams’…

HYDE PARK’S food vans would be turfed out and Veggie Mama given exclusive rights to serve food in the park under a plan being pondered by Vincent council. Vincent staff have recommended councillors vote to lease the west end storage shed to Veggie Mama for $30,000 a year, at the lowest end of the estimated…

A SECOND storey on an inner-city Perth house has been described by some neighbours as threatening more than a century of heritage and tradition in the preserved rows of workers cottages. The Brookman and Moir Street precinct contains 58 workers cottages built around the 1897-1898 gold rush. The modest houses  on smallish blocks were designed for…

HYDE PARK’S lakes took on an alarming hue this week, but an expert tells us it’s no cause for concern yet. A large part of the western lake has a thick green covering and the eastern lake has a reddish crust over most of it, evocative of algal blooms of past years and leading passersby…

BAYSWATER council will lose CEO Andrew Brien who formally tendered his resignation one day before the final meeting of 2021.  After four years at Bayswater Mr Brien will take up a new gig as CEO at Kalgoorlie-Boulder, serving his last day at Bayswater February 25.  Councillors scrambled at the December 7 meeting to get through several…

AFTER more than a year of searching for an Aboriginal name for the new extension of Stephenson Avenue, it will be named “Stephenson Avenue”. The Stephenson Avenue extension linking the road to the Mitchell Freeway and then further north to Cedric Street is the centrepiece of Stirling council’s plan to become a second city centre of…

MAJOR crash investigators are calling for dash-cam or mobile footage that might shed light on a crash last Sunday (December 5) that left a 64-year-old man with serious hand injury. The man’s white Hyundai iX35 LM collided with a silver Hyundai Accent driven by a woman in her 50s, around 7.35am at the intersection of…