A 31-STOREY student accommodation tower has been approved for Wellington Street, with an opening date coinciding with plans to move Edith Cowan University’s campus to the CBD in 2026. With a gym, cinema and podcast rooms on the first floor podium and a sky lounge, terrace and games rooms on the rooftop, the flats will…

THE nation’s keenest treetop athletes will descend on Bayswater for the ArbWest State Tree Climbing Championship this week as part of ArbFest 2024.  World number 2 climber Jack Lewis will compete, as well as Australian women’s national champion Alana Murray, who is ranked fourth in the world. ArbWest vice president Kelvin Ussher said ArbFest was…

THE Cook government has announced it will put $12 million into Highgate Primary School to ease pressure on its crowded classrooms, but negotiations over a new school for East Perth have become bogged down in another tiff between Labor and lord mayor Basil Zempilas. Education minister Tony Buti announced the Highgate extensions this week, saying…

MARCH is Women’s History Month, and although the women about to be profiled are not historical, they are certainly making history. This is the first in a series of articles about some of the 2024 inductees to the Western Australian Women’s Hall of Fame.  LORRAINE HAMMOND is an associate professor at the School of Education…

A SECOND e-scooter operator has launched across the City of Vincent this week. Singaporean-based Beam Mobility has rolled out 250 of its distinctive purple Saturn 5 e-scooters in Vincent; it already operates in the Perth CBD and in January started offering them in Stirling as well. It joins Neuron in Vincent council’s 12-month e-scooter trial,…

BAYSWATER will be abuzz with a celebration of its multicultural community during Harmony Week 2024. Free activities from 3 – 6pm on March 17 at The RISE Amphitheatre include a picnic and concert with the mesmerising rhythms and melodies of the Middle East and Turkey played by Group Ezgi. Bayswater mayor Filomena Piffaretti said the…

PARA SPORT will be back in Forrest Place later this month thanks to Rebound WA. The Para Sport Festival allows people from all walks of life to explore recreation and sport opportunities available to Western Australians with physical disabilities and blindness, with wheelchair basketball and bowling crowd favourites. Rebound WA is a charity that aims…

MEMBERS of the WA media and arts community will be protesting in solidarity with journalist Antoinette Lattouf over her sacking by the ABC for posting about Gaza on social media.  Ms Lattouf was sacked in December, days after she had shared a post from Human Rights Watch regarding Israel’s war in Gaza on her Instagram…

THERE are calls for a total ban on filters in cigarettes after recent research found more than half of all smokers don’t bother putting them in a bin. With filters taking the unenviable title of the most littered item in Australia, No More Butts executive director Shannon Mead said they were a burden on the…

MASTER model maker Gerry Westenberg’s replica of Henry VIII’s famous 16th century flagship Mary Rose has caught the eye of an international YouTuber, and he flew to the UK last week to hand it over personally. The model is a 1/96 scale replica of the Mary Rose, which sank in mysterious circumstances during the Battle…