VINCENT city council is preparing to sell the old Angove Street police station, expecting more than $1.7million to help cover last year’s budget bungle. The council bought the building from the cops back in 2009 after a proposal from Multicultural Inc to put in a wellness centre. It was purchased at auction for $1.725m, but…

ARE you into men with fat bellies and bald heads? If the answer is yes, make sure you check out the buddha weekend at Langley Park on April 18 and 19. The event celebrates the birth of the founder of buddhism, Sakyamuni Buddha, and includes tai chi and meditation sessions, fireworks and a baby blessing…

TINA ASKAM will take residents on a scratch and sniff tour of Maylands as part of her walking exhibition—here’s hoping it won’t include an off-the-leash dog park. The exhibition is the culmination of two years’ research by Askam, a PhD candidate, which involved 50 walks with locals, aged eight to 80, through the suburban heart…

WHILE Aboriginal actors occasionally make it onto our TVs and movie screens, Aboriginal producers and directors on the other side of the camera are even more rare. Murray Street-based Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company’s looking to change that, launching a crowdfunding campaign to get young trainees Shakara Walley and Ian Wilkes into a 12-month program so…

SCOUTING is booming in Perth, with so many kids desperate to sign up that Scouts WA is scrambling to find enough scout halls and volunteers. Subiaco has a four-year waiting list for the woggle while the West Perth troop is looking for a new hall after the building it used was sold (it can stay…

RESIDENTS face being slugged a 3.5 per cent rates rise if Bayswater council can’t recoup the $1.2 million it spent on the Barnett government’s aborted mergers process, a local councillor warns. “There is a big hole in the budget now,” Cr Mike Anderton says. “Pensioners will not be able to afford another three per cent…

A THIEF who hates the sound of children’s laughter has stolen one of the bronze Gumnut Baby sculptures from the CBD’s Stirling Gardens. The two sculptures were installed a decade ago, inspired by May Gibbs’ characters Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and symbolic of the animals and trees that had lived in the gardens. “Someone has cut…

FEDERAL and state MPs are backing a residents’-led campaign calling on Bayswater council to fly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags all year round. Currently the flags fly only during national reconciliation week and NAIDOC. The Maylands ratepayers and residents association says it’s not good enough. “The flags are flown all year round at other…

ARTISTS across Perth have garages full of paintings, sculptures and other strange creations, all because they never get around to selling them. Mt Lawley painter Sioux Tempestt says many artists are so immersed in the creative process they can neglect the more worldly side of the business and hardly ever make a buck from their…

LABOR’S Alannah MacTiernan (right) will hold a meeting on the NBN at Bassendean community centre on April 1—no, it’s not a joke. The federal MP is pushing for local suburbs including Bedford, East Perth, Inglewood, Maylands, Morley, Mt Lawley, Highgate and North Perth to receive fibre-to-the-home broadband, as Labor had proposed when it first started…