HERITAGE PERTH needs volunteers to pull off its increasingly popular Perth Heritage Days. This year’s event will be run between October 15 and 16, with guests shown around historic locales not normally accessible to the general public. Volunteers are needed as guides, exhibition attendants, marshals, patron counters and to help manage crowds and general queries.…

WHEN Voice readers Sandy and Chris Marsh spotted the remains of a dove in their Northbridge back garden they suspected neighbourhood cats. But they quickly spotted a more majestic predator sitting on the nearby fence, a brown goshawk rarely seen in the inner city. Mr Marsh grabbed his camera and they snapped a photo of…

THOUGHTLESS drivers parking across suburban footpaths are making life dangerous for people with disabilities, old folks and parents pushing prams. Disability advocate Suresh Rajan lives in Yokine and goes for prodigious walks every morning, routinely racking up 15km or more, but he doesn’t have to walk far before spotting the first car across the footpath.…

VINCENT council has been told there’s little chance of any state funding for its trial of 40kmh speed limits across its southern areas. The council allocated $150,000 for the project in this year’s budget and hoped Main Roads and the Road Safety Commission would chip in half. That support is “unlikely,” according to a report…

HUMBLE traders, former pollies and long-time citizens share stories at the Museum of Perth’s new exhibition Shaping Perth. Helena Cohen Robertson from non-profit organisation Know Your Nation curated the oral histories from 12 Perth people which help shed light on how Perth has grown and changed through the years. Penny Hoffman’s mother managed the Derwood…

SEA SHEPHERD eco-warriors will be highlighting their campaign to prevent BP drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight at an upcoming public event. Promising stories, breathtaking imagery and eye opening footage from their Operation Jeedera campaign in the bight, as well as other issues, An Ocean Conversation is at the state theatre on August…

IT took just 24 hours for the first bride and groom to discover Fremantle’s grand new entry statement Rainbow. Marcus Canning’s sculpture of nine sea containers painted and welded together in a colourful arch formed the perfect backdrop for their wedding portraits, while it literally bought traffic to a stop as locals and visitors alike…

THREE huge cranes struggled as they worked in unison, daylight fading, to slot the last section of the giant rainbow arch of sea containers into place on Beach Street Reserve, just up the road from Fremantle’s old traffic bridge on Canning Highway. Nine metres high, 19 metres long and tipping the scales at 66 tonnes…

BAYSWATER council is looking into buying part of the wetland next to the Eric Singleton bird sanctuary to prevent any more clearing for houses. A press release from mayor Barry McKenna says the council is investigating “all options” to try and save the wetland which is adjacent to a proposed sub-division already partly cleared by…