BAYSWATER and STIRLING will be in for new water pipes, under a $40m Cook government plan to fix leaks on Perth’s old network. About 30 kilometres of piping will be renewed under the program starting later this year, with each stage taking about six to eight weeks to try and minimise disruptions. Some of the…

FIFTY of the brightest minds in the world will be converging on Perth next month as the brainiacs from Mensa hold their meeting of international directors. It will be the first time Australia has been chosen to host a Mensa meeting. Australian Mensa chair Jean-Marc Genesi will be traveling from Melbourne to attend as Australia’s…

THE City of Stirling has upgraded floodlighting at Millington Reserve, enhancing facilities for junior and senior AFL clubs.  The new lighting meets Australian Standards, improving training and evening matches to support the rise in local sports participation. With increasing female involvement, particularly at Scarborough Junior and Amateur Football Clubs, the lighting expands opportunities for women’s…

SPRING has sprung in WA and while bees are busy making honey for WA’s booming export market, a report by Curtin University researchers has found they’re under-pollinating an endangered orchid. Apis Mellifera were introduced during colonisation and the research has found they’re not as efficient as their native cousins in pollination.  Study lead and research…

JAPANESE botany could be front and centre of a plan to transform Perth’s verges into mini forests. Murdoch University research fellow Grey Coupland is an expert in Miyawaki forest revegetation and will be keynote speaker at an Urban Bushland information night in White Gum Valley next month.  The Miyawaki method, which was developed in Japan…

CHILDCARE operators could be invited to put in bids to build and run an out-of-school-hours facility on Gibbney Reserve in the latest bid to find a solution to a chronic shortage of places in Maylands. Councillor Nat Latter has put forward a motion for Bayswater council to support a lease on the reserve for a…

VINCENT council says a public artwork celebrating an important Indigenous institution should be repaired in the “coming weeks” after it was targeted by a graffiti vandal. The artwork in Weld Square is based on the little-known story of the Coolbaroo League Social Club, which formed in 1946 and offered Indigenous people an opportunity to gather…

UNHOSTED short-term rentals will only be able to operate 90 days each year without council approval under new rules introduced by the Cook government. The amendments to the regulations are an attempt to sort out the sector following a decade-long debate between those concerned about long-term rental shortages and disrupted neighbourhoods and those who feel…

BACK in 1987 when Limbo Dance Club opened its doors at 232 William Street, few might have predicted the lasting influence the nightclub and its band of small but diehard devotees would have on Perth. The bush doofs and raves that to this day get under WA Police’s skin all have their genesis in the…

MORE Bayswater residents are asking for a verge tree, as the City tries to combat the loss of its green canopy to infill. Bayswater council has just finished a bumper winter planting season, with more than 50,000 trees and shrubs finding their way onto verges, parks and reserves. Acting mayor Elli Petersen-Pik said the community…