WHILE it’s now a decade since Pope Benedict XVI consigned limbo to history, WA’s churches are again concerned about souls stuck in an indefinite no-man’s land. But this time it’s asylum seekers, not the un-baptised, in limbo and 40 organisations including the Catholic, Anglican, Jewish and Uniting Churches are joining the Palm Sunday Walk for…

ONLY 15 per cent of Stirling households have a solar system, prompting the local council to consider trialling a $1500 rebate program. Stirling even lags behind Wanneroo (35 percent of households have a solar system) and Joondalup (28 per cent), according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. A report to council on other local government…

STIRLING mayor Mark Irwin and CEO Stuart Jardine will try to get the ear of key players in the Turnbull government to push the city’s infrastructure projects while heading east for a conference and an awards night. Mr Jardine will represent the city at the National General Assembly of local governments in Canberra from June…

STIRLING councillors have voted to abolish free parking on Field Street and in more sections of Beaufort Street. Motorists parking on Field Street or at 679/680 Beaufort Street will now get the first 60 minutes for free, but will then have to pay $2 per hour. Councillors voted not to introduce paid parking at the…

THEY’VE known nothing but “the future”, so the latest Year 12 Perspective’s exhibition will be an interesting look into how WA’s Millennials want to engage us, says WA Art Gallery curator Dunja Rmandic. “It is worth keeping in mind that many students completing year 12 this year would have been born in the year 2000,”…

A MAJORITY of Perth city councillors have released a statement pointing the finger at lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi for local government minister David Templeman’s decision to suspend the council. “The majority of council do not believe that the lord mayor should get the outcome she wants,” read the statement, which was publicly released on Wednesday…

BUNNINGS Inglewood burned near to the ground Monday night, with explosions heard suburbs away and the fire smouldering well into the next day. The Inglewood Monday Night Markets were just closing up when manager Rudy Perone noticed the fire, calling 000 just after 9pm. The area filled with thick, smelly smoke and a hazmat warning…

THE decision on Yolk Property’s development at 9-11 King William Street has been made, but the issue continues to split the community, with a supporter’s car being egged and a councillor hammered by threats to vote her out. Bayswater councillor Catherine Ehrhardt says she’s been peppered by negative comments after voting to support the development…

THE WA Planning Commission has thrown a spanner in the works of Stirling council’s plans to preserve the character of Beaufort Street north of Walcott. The council’s Beaufort Street Local Development Plan took five years to put together and won a commendation award from the Planning Institute of Australia for its consultation, but that wasn’t…

IT was stuck on freeze frame for a couple of months, but the Mount Lawley Society’s short film festival is back. The first festival in November 2016 sold out and co-organiser Christina Gustavson said they’d fielded requests about the next since then, with students from Central Institute of Technology’s film course eager to add a…