VINCENT city council has turned down the volume on a West Perth party house. New rules will require a management plan to deal with party goers, proper signs showing contact details for complaints, 7am to 10pm check-in — instead of staggering in at 2.30am with a boombox on the shoulder — and a staffed reception…

STIRLING council will spend $200,000 introducing e-voting to its chamber. Staff have previously manually counted “ayes” and “nays” at council meetings. Once installed the system will allow councillors to press a button so their vote is automatically inserted into the minutes. As all e-voting systems come with microphones, the existing 11-year-old equipment will be redundant.…

THE president of the Maylands Autumn Centre says she doesn’t know how some members will pay for important health tests if prices rise, as predicted. From July 1, providers of radiology and pathology services say they will no longer be able to bulk bill services because the Turnbull government is freezing their incentive payments. The…

THE vast majority of Bayswater residents love the place, but they’d love to see more trees. They’re the chief findings of an independent community perceptions study that interviewed 689 people to gain a snapshot of life in the Garden City. A healthy 87 per cent rate Baysy a good or excellent place to live but…

The next instalment of the organisation’s annual Walk and Talk event deliberately coincides with Law Week and will take a look at the fascinating story of Alfred Hawes Stone. One of the first solicitors to arrive at the fledgling Swan River Colony, Stone was also an avid photographer. Born in Tunbridge Wells, England, Stone was…

THE Ruah homeless drop-in centre is running desperately low on clothes. The West Perth centre gets about 500 people a week coming through the doors and is running very low on essential items and with winter around the corner they need all sizes of mens’ and womens’ clothing. Key on the wanted list are razors,…

STIRLING city council has put off a decision to install on-street parking along Main Street. The initiative would have cost $35,000 and resulted in $123,500 of street trees being removed. A council report presented to the community and resources committee found that even with the parking, it wouldn’t have benefited business along the street and…

BEAUFORT STREET’S southern regions have always found funding love, from Vincent and Stirling councils pouring in cash to the old festival to the WA government splashing out big for road upgrades. The stretch in the northern ends near Inglewood has sometimes felt like the second favourite child, but retiring federal Perth MP Alannah MacTiernan wants…

PERTH city council is boasting that its residential rates will rise by a mere 1.6 per cent, keeping them in line with CPI. Trouble among the brass (CCC investigations into the lord mayor, former CEO Gary Stevenson taking an unexpected early exit, half the council falling afoul of travel contribution reporting rules) haven’t affected the…

SUPPORTERS of the fascist United Patriots Front have called for the sterilisation of young people who support the Safe Schools anti-bullying program. A tiny handful of UPF members was vastly outnumbered by Safe Schools supporters at a rally in Perth last weekend. Following the rally, the UPF Facebook page posted images of several Safe Schools…