STIRLING council has picked up a national award for promoting indigenous recognition. Last month mayor Giovanni Italiano and CEO Stuart Jardine traveled to Parliament House in Canberra to pick up the award in the national local government awards. Stirling was the only WA council to take out a category, for its Stirling Aboriginal Engagement Project.…

PERTH city council is encouraging ratepayers and visitors to get intimate with the city’s oldest public garden. As part of its Walk & Talk series, the council’s long-standing arboricultural expert Alan Dolphin will be giving a guided tour of Stirling Gardens. Mr Dolphin started in the council’s parks and gardens department as a trainee in…

TIMES Square, Tokyo Midtown, Perth? Hardly, as Perth council works on a new signage policy to remove some of the red tape surrounding advertising material and pave the way for large electronic signs – but Keeps a strict hand on where they’ll be allowed. Under the new rules it’ll be much easier to have a…

STIRLING ratepayers are facing a modest 1.75 per cent rate increase, one of the lowest in the metro area. The state’s biggest council has a budget totalling $307 million, with $95m going towards capital works ($28m on roads, paths, drains and parking, $8.2m on new parks, $10.1m improving the council’s own buildings and a $20m…

WHEN it comes to sex appeal, the Italian Tenors leave Shades of Grey in – well – the shade and Madame Ciccone seems a tinny-titted support act. With a mix of pop/opera, sass, suits and seductive songs the easy-on-the-eye trio’s YouTube promos are backdropped by drop-dead gorgeous Italian settings and enough slow-mo and soft lighting…

PERTH council will track pedestrians by honing in on their mobile phones from this week. The council will use the data to work out where people walk, how long they linger and how often they come back as a way of measuring the success of events. It can then decide whether the events are worth…

VINCENT council will oppose a proposed fire station on Carr Street. Mayor John Carey saying he’s “greatly disappointed” with the department of fire and emergency services’ handling of the plan. The department says 27-33 Carr Street (which the state paid $8.7 million for) is the best spot for the $19 million station, taking into account…

STIRLING councillors are remaining steadfast in their refusal to let an owner knock down a heritage protected property at 26 Holmfirth Street, Menora. The house is located within the Menora heritage protection area, where houses built before 1960 are protected unless their heritage fabric is so compromised they no longer represent an architectural style. Unfortunately…

A MENORA home which has gone through two painstaking restorations has taken out top honours in this year’s Stirling heritage awards. Sue and Trevor Darge had already picked up a heritage award in 2010 when they renovated the art deco home and added a second storey, but in July 2013 most of the home was…

MIFFED Vincent CEO Len Kosova says Perth Liberal MP Eleni Evangel was given a detailed explanation of why a letter to pensioners in the city wasn’t political well before she publicly criticised the council. Last week Ms Evangel, who’ll be facing Vincent mayor John Carey in next February’s state election, got stuck into the council…