EVEN God isn’t immune from WA’s economic slump. After 74 years, Carols by Candlelight at Langley Park has been cancelled due to a lack of sponsors. Organiser Variety WA is $290,000 short of the $350,000 it needs to hold the event, and on Monday announced the nativity set won’t be coming out this year. Perth…

A BIKE trail at Hinds Reserve is gaining momentum after Bayswater councillors narrowly approved a $9000 feasibility study. Councillor Catherine Ehrhardt moved a motion in June to look into an externally funded single trail, but since then the scope of the project has expanded to include three trails at a cost of about $319,000. The…

A RALLY is planned for October 29 to save the Brian McKay mural at the Central Park building in the CBD. The building’s owners, Perron Group and Frasers Commercial Property, want to move the huge wall of murals by about four metres to make way for refurbishments. The Perron Group, founded by Perth philanthropist Stan…

THE life and death of WWI pilot Alaric Pinder Boor will be commemorated in a special remembrance concert at St Mary’s Cathedral on November 4. Historian Richard Offen will narrate the story of Lt Boor, a Christian Brothers College (now Aquinas) student who died ahead of the famed Battle of Beersheeba in Palestine. Lt Boor…

A LIFEGUARD at the Terry Tyzack Aquatic Centre has won a WA Bravery Award. Tanika Buscombe was on duty at the centre when a man was found unconscious across the road at Wordsworth Reserve. She rushed across and provided CPR until a St John’s ambulance arrived. This month, Ms Buscombe was recognised by the Royal…

ANGOVE STREET will be crammed with skeletons, ghouls and dismembered corpses later this month. No, it’s not the venue for the next party room meeting of the Liberal government, but the street’s annual Halloween bash. Part of the street will be closed to traffic, providing a space for kids to trick or treat. There’ll be…

DIANELLA secondary college have a launched a new program to help migrant pupils and their families feel at home. The suburb has some of the highest levels of refugee and migrant settlement in WA. The Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre will work with the college to provide support services, including an annual camp for students and…

LIVING with the debilitating and somewhat controversial Lyme’s disease and caring for a terminally ill son, Vicki White struggled to get help from WA’s labyrinthian health system. The former nurse and special needs education assistant says she was shuffled from service to service to answer her many questions, and the rigmarole soon became part of…

DECRIMINALISING illegal drugs in WA could help reduce their devastating effects on society, says North Metro MLC Alison Xamon. She’s won bi-partisan support for a parliamentary select committee to do a study on alternative approaches to tackling the state’s drug crisis, including decriminalisation, which was introduced in Portugal in 2001. Ms Xamon said the Portuguese…

BAYSWATER council is trialling a vertical garden on the corner of Whatley Crescent and King William Street. If all goes to plan the garden could be extend along Whatley Crescent, transforming an existing fence into a lush street feature. The vertical garden is a partnership between the city, which funded the trial, Baysie Rollers and…