THE new $9.3 million Seventh Avenue bridge opened this week. It replaces the rickety 1913 timber bridge, which had an eight-tonne limit and carried around 3500 vehicles a day. The new bridge spans more than 80 metres and include footpaths, accommodation for four rail lines, bridge guard rails and increased capacity. The old eight-tonne load…

POCKETS of dangerous methane gas could scupper plans to build a new cafe down at the Maylands foreshore. After 10 years of umming and awwing, Bayswater city council recently set aside $21,500 to investigate building a sea-container style cafe at the river. But the plans might never get off the drawing board because of pockets…

BEING queer, young and Muslim is like being a “crescent-shaped peg” fitting into a “Southern Cross-shaped hole” according to new theatre troupe Third Culture Kids. Writer Dure Khan, originally from Peshawar in Pakistan, based her new play Once We Were Kings on her experiences with other young people navigating their way through being queer and…

THE Beaufort Street Network wants to hear “the good, the bad and the ugly” about the street so it can keep improving it. Network chair Pam Herron says Beaufort Street has seen some big changes over the past few years, such as murals, new trees, public art, the colourful Beaufort Street sign and the quirky…

DOG-fostering has helped Maylands woman Christine Jones recover from a violent dog attack that injured her and killed her pooch, Jeremy. It’s almost five months since two great danes attacked her on Railway Parade in Maylands, killing her little kelpie/King Charles cavalier cross who had been named after Jeremy Irons. In the months since, she’s…

YOU might soon see Bayswater locals nibbling on yams and beetroots in local parks after the council approved the creation of edible gardens on its reserves. The council will develop a policy that lets locals turn designated areas into fruit and vegie patches. “This is all about empowering locals to take ownership of their parks,”…

BIG developers operating in the Perth CBD may soon have to shell out one per cent of the cost of their projects for public artworks, and more Aboriginal art may one day grace the streets. Perth city council is playing catchup with Vincent and Bayswater councils in floating the idea for its own per cent…

ANNAPURNA Nepalese Kitchen is helping the earthquake appeal effort, holding a buffet lunch this Sunday May 3 and inviting people to pay what they want with all proceeds going to the Nepal Earthquake Victims Appeal. Local federal MP Alannah MacTiernan is asking everyone to get down there “and support our local Nepalese community assisting their…

A NORTH PERTH woman called the Voice this week saying the WWI postcard found on the fence of Graham Farmer Freeway earlier this month (Voice, April 25, 2015) might be a fake. She says several fake postcards had been made and shot from a cannon as part of The Giants puppet performance in February. When…

HISTORY was made Tuesday when Bayswater city council voted unanimously to fly an Aboriginal flag outside and inside its civic HQ. Previously the council only flew the flag during NAIDOC and reconciliation week. The council will spend $1500 installing a fourth flagpole for an indigenous flag, to be flown permanently alongside the national, WA and…