ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Thea Campbell is hoping to break the world record for most dogs at a grooming session, while raising funds for the Shenton Park Dogs Refuge Home. She’s holding the record attempt at a Doggie Dinner Movie Night, where they’ll show Lady and the Tramp, with doggie mocktails and free dog spaghetti, so pooches can…

ATTENTION—cats wanted! The University of South Australia is looking for 40 pet cats in Bayswater to be fitted with GPS tracking collars as part of a nationwide study. Previous research by the university found cats had five main personality types: skittish, outgoing, dominant, spontaneous and friendly, and they want to compare personalities to cats’ roaming…

BIG names in local music will play the free concert 6006 in the Park at Woodville Reserve on Sunday, January 28. Put on by community association North Perth Local and Vincent council, Felicity Groom, Tired Lion, the Rick Steele Band and newcomer Spacey Jane will take the stage, with a welcome to country performed by…

IT’S a new record for Bayswater Bridge with two trucks running into it in a single day. Perth drivers only made it two weeks into the new year before driving into the bridge, with a truck peeling its top off just after noon on January 15. Before the end of the day another truck would…

PERTH-based company Power Ledger is one of three finalists in this year’s Extreme Tech Challenge, and they’re off to Richard Branson’s Necker Island for the final round. The tech startup uses blockchain and a virtual currency that can be used as tokens for people with renewable energy generators, like solar panels, to trade excess power.…

HERITAGE PERTH is inviting budding historians aged 6-16 to enter its Capturing Change school holiday competition. Perth has changed dramatically since the early days of the Swan River Colony in 1829, but there are still spots where new buildings sit alongside remnants of the past, be it natural heritage or historic buildings. Capturing Change wants…

ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) The Sun moves out of Capricorn early in the week. This will feel like a rather large weight is lifted from your shoulders. As it moves into Aquarius, you will begin to feel like you suddenly have wider horizons and a greater sense of possibility. Your sense of intensity…

GHOST stories in Vincent, the dying art of neon bending, and a local beekeeper on a crusade to save stingers. They’re all ideas that rose to the top of the slush pile and were chosen to be made into documentaries by the City of Vincent film project. $15,000 has been allocated to make the three…

AN obnoxious weed with a cute name is invading Perth waterways. Recently spotted in Bayswater Brook in late December, Amazon frogbit rapidly spreads by jettisoning little fragments stuffed with pods, laden with dozens of seeds that can germinate up to three years later. The Central and South American weed can double its biomass in just…

LISA SCAFFIDI resumed her lord mayoral duties this week, stepping back into the job while awaiting a reduced penalty from the State Administrative Tribunal. She told a press conference on Monday there was no bad blood between her and Perth councillors James Limnios, Reece Harley and Jemma Green, despite them calling on her to quit…