THE BIG Blue Head should be a little warmer this cold season, with guerilla knitters yarnbombing him some winter gear. North Perth Knit Natter and Crochet were behind the yarning, and a lot of planning went into the giant knitwear that was slung over the sculpture outside Vincent council last weekend. It started seven months…

NINE-year-old Rebecca Puccini from Dianella completed her 50th parkrun this month, smashing 5km in just 25 minutes. The free weekend parkruns started in Perth a few years back and now there’s about a dozen spread across the suburbs. Rebecca’s dad Alberto says he’d been trying to get her interested in running with him but had…

THE photo of Perth film maker and artist Curtis Taylor dominates the gallery wall of Il Locale Cafe. Dark and brooding, the image has a pulsating and primal quality. “I wanted that particular portrait to make a bit of a statement when people walk in,” photographer Robert Simeon tells the Voice. The photo is so…

BUREAUCRATS and a door that swings the wrong way have put the future of a Leederville gallery for emerging artists in jeopardy. Ink Remedy owner Rachel O’Shea has been looking at the same exhibition she hung for the Fringe World festival in January after Vincent council planners got in a tizz over her front door,…

A MISCONDUCT finding against Stirling councillor Elizabeth Re dating back to 2015 has been overturned by the State Administrative Tribunal. At the time the Local Government Standards Panel found that Cr Re had been aggressive to a council staffer. But the press release from her lawyer about the overturned decision has been met with legal…

ROADS will become parks as Vincent council looks to expand the amount of green space for the city’s ever increasing population. The council is consulting with locals around Hyde Street Reserve on the “Roads to Parks” project, which would see the reserve extended out onto Hyde Street between Alma Road and Forrest Street. That chunk…

MAJOR crash investigators are seeking information about the death of a 91-year-old man on July 2 after his mobility scooter collided with a car. About 5:15pm the scooter and a white Mitsubishi Outlander collided with each other near the intersection of Yirrigan Drive and Coralberry Crescent. It is believed the Mitsubishi was being driven west…

PERTH city councillors are finally allowed to speak to the media after abolishing the old restrictive rule at their meeting on Tuesday July 4, but councillors can expect a close eye to be kept on their social media accounts to make sure they’re not breaking the rules. Cr Reece Harley’s been pushing for the right…

AS shadow minister she slammed the Barnett government for “mean-spirited” cutbacks to childcare and neighbourhood centres, but now she’s the responsible minister Simone McGurk is refusing to reverse the decision. Late last year the Liberals ordered the Department of Local Government and Communities to stop rental assistance to centres across the state, causing a number…

WEST PERTH midwife Shani Adamson is aiming to raise $10,000 for a dangerous post-birth condition that leaves young African girls and women injured and shunned by their communities. Ms Adamson found out about the condition “obstetric fistula” when she was studying midwifery. The condition is almost unheard of in Australia because of our easy access…