VOTING is open for the most popular photograph at this year’s Vincent’s local history awards. The awards attracted a record 205 photographic entries, with voting for the most popular open at http://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/library or in person at the library on Loftus Street until October 27 (the winning voter gets a framed copy of their favourite pic).…

A POCKET Park on Progress Street, Morley will get a $65,000 makeover. Bayswater council is collaborating with local group The Morley Momentum to turn the 130sqm block into an attractive public space with seating, decking, festoon lights, greenery and a footpath. It’s estimated the makeover will be finished later this year.

VINCENT voters have been sluggish in this year’s council elections. With the mayoral position and north ward vacancies filled without a contest, just 20 per cent of south ward voters have bothered to return their ballot papers. In the 2017 election 26.69 per cent voted. Although voters have been apathetic, sign stealers have been active.…

BAYSWATER council has added two electric bikes to its fleet. The new treadlies mean staff could nip up to Officeworks or Donut King and back without a grunt of carbon dioxide, let alone the nasties that spew from the exhaust of a stinky car. ”Our bikes are recharged using solar panels already in place at…

POLICE have charged a “ride-share” driver with the indecent assault of a female passenger. Police say on October 5 around 11pm, the driver told the woman, who is in her 20s, that the rear passenger doors were broken so she had to ride up front with him. During the trip from a southern Perth suburb…

“SERIOUS consequences” are in store for witnesses who forged documents, gave dishonest testimony or withheld information from the inquiry into the City of Perth.  After 40 days of evidence, 23 witnesses and 4000 pages of transcripts, inquiry lawyer Philip Urquhart wrapped up the public hearings last week warning those who’d tried to frustrate the inquiry…

“WE have been conflicted hundreds of times.” It finally dawned on Perth’s councillors in 2016 that they’d breached conflict of interest rules by accepting pricey VIP tickets and swank showbags for events propped up with ratepayers’ money. But the Voice had been banging on about the apparent conflict of interest for more than 10 years.…

A ONE man sit-down protest has stopped the felling of a 30-year-old tree in Inglewood – for now. The “Council of Owners” at John Place units wanted the grevillea robusta removed because it was termite-ridden, situated on unsuitable land and might grow to double its size. They said they consulted five arborists and the consensus…

AN OUTPOURING of grief has met news of the death of much-loved Herald photographer Matthew Dwyer. Police confirmed that a body believed to be that of the 51-year-old was “located at the base of a steep incline” at Bluff Knoll in the Stirling Ranges near Albany on Thursday around lunchtime. It followed an extensive overnight…

BERLIN prodigy Heidemarie Wiesner is playing three stunning classical concerts in Perth this weekend (October 11-13). Wiesner started playing piano at 5 “because I wanted to”. Following in the footsteps of her mother and sister, Wiesner received the coveted Schumann Prize at age 17 and has devoted her life to music. In an illustrious career,…