KIDS at Maylands Peninsula Primary School won’t be using the playground in shifts anymore after new $40,000 equipment was installed. Students number have doubled to about 650 since the school opened in 2004 and earlier this year there was a weekly roster to use the playground equipment. The school’s P&C president Dan West said the…

A SATURDAY morning growers market at Bert Wright Park in Bayswater could open as early as next month. Organiser Future Bayswater have got stallholders on board, and the final hurdle is raising $12,000 for start-up costs. They launched a crowdfunding page on July 25, and after six days they had already raised more than half…

INGLEWOOD Police Station is one of 11 Voiceland properties set to get heritage protection from Stirling council. Following a heritage review by the city, consultants nominated 11 sites to be added to the city’s heritage list, which offers protection under the Local Planning Scheme. Mt Lawley Society president Paul Collins says his organisation has an…

VOLUNTARY assisted dying advocate Belinda Teh was met by premier Mark McGowan on the steps of parliament Tuesday (August 6), after completing her walk across the country to raise awareness of the issue. Flanked by health minister Roger Cook and other WA ministers, Ms Teh and the premier placed white roses in a basket in…

TRANBY on Swan is the first medium-density apartment complex in Perth to completely switch to solar-powered street lighting. Council of Owners chairperson Sue Cundale says they wanted to be greener and have smaller energy bills at the Maylands complex. “We started to think outside of the box and thought, well, why don’t we go solar,”…

VINCENT households are being encouraged to install solar panels in the city’s new Sustainable Environment Strategy. The five-year strategy, unanimously approved by councillors at the July 23 council meeting, focusses on minimising the city’s impact on the environment. Householders will be encouraged to install solar panels or batteries in order to reduce the use of…

ON August 25 an audience will gather in a small West Perth movie theatre for a state first: A public cinema screening of a global video game championship. “Defence of the Ancients 2: The International” (Dota 2) is one of the biggest events on the calendar for electronic-sports, a serious-business subset of video games played…

STIRLING council is set to cut red tape to help small market operators set up in the city. Under the proposed policy change, operators with up to 20 stalls will not have to apply for development approval if their market is on private land. The operators still have to meet a list of criteria including…

A YOUNG renter has turned her experiences of being screwed by stingy landlords into a game highlighting WA’s unfair tenancy laws. Megan Neal (24) has been criticised by landlords for breakfast crumbs in an otherwise spotless house or owning too many things, while she’s been sick from mould. But like most renters she was scared…

A NEW era of tightened purse strings has taken hold at Perth council. The city’s commissioners have suspended all heritage and business grants until they get a complete picture of the city’s finances. At Tuesday’s meeting they turned down a staff recommendation to spend $90,000 on six “business improvement grants” to upgrade venues in the…