VINCENT city council has decided to stick with the WA Local Government Association. Mayor John Carey has been fuming since WALGA brass rejected his plan to introduce stricter transparency measures at last year’s state conference, but his CEO Len Kosova has looked into withdrawing and says it’ll be too costly. Mr Kosova says the $50,000…

A PROPOSAL to triple patron numbers at a Coogee Street cafe has divided the Mount Hawthorn community. It was standing room only at this week’s Vincent council meeting as about 20 residents rose to speak for and against Jazz Cellar boss Roy Burton’s application to increase the cafe’s size from 15 to 40 patrons. Councillors…

BAYSWATER city councillors will no longer be able to kick off ambitious projects days before leaving office. This week the council enacted a long-called for caretaker period by unanimous vote. Resident Adam Parsonage led the push for caretaker periods and made it an election issue last year, saying councillors were tabling eleventh hour motions to…

THE new Third Avenue Bridge is up and running, easing a major traffic snag in Maylands. After $9.1million and eight months of construction the raggedy 105-year-old timber bridge has been replaced with a new steel and concrete number with a capacity to handle about 10,000 cars a day.

CASH intended for art around Bayswater could be diverted towards more trees under a plan by councillor Brent Fleeton. Under Bayswater council’s per cent for art program, developers have to set aside one per cent of the cost of big projects for public artworks; a little trade-off to beautify the city while they block out…

UBER is denting traditional taxis’ customer numbers so much it might see the taxi rank in Leederville removed. A Vincent council report says “the taxi industry is currently in a state of flux” with services like Uber and now Shofer chomping into the market. They’re not allowed to use the taxi bay and with so…

HOMELESS people left a fire smouldering unattended in the abandoned food hall on Parker Street, Northbridge, the Voice discovered this week. Following concerns by neighbours from swish apartments that the squatting presented a fire risk, the Voice peeked through a kicked-out front panel to a scene of chaos. Mattresses, bedding, food scraps, luggage, bikes, clothing…

A BAYSWATER councillor has slammed the Liberal party for using a tactic she says might trick voters into inadvertently sending it sensitive information. The Libs have mailed out packages spruiking candidate Jeremy Quinn, who’s in a close contest for the federal seat of Perth. The package includes a voter registration form which looks like the…

THE pricey $5 billion City Link project is at a loose end after the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority cancelled plans to work with Mirvac Group who’d been developing eight major lots near the horseshoe bridge. The lots were meant to be the you-beaut centrepiece of the urban renewal project, but the two parties couldn’t reach a…

PARENTS have urged education minister Peter Collier to try harder to negotiate a deal to secure a new western suburbs high school. The state government wants to relocate the International School of WA and build a new high school on its site, but ISWA has dug in its heels because it can’t get the deal…