STIRLING mayor Giovanni Italiano is joining a chorus of voices calling for the entire council merger program to be scrapped. This week Colin Barnett conceded his plan to nearly halve the number of WA local governments from 30 to 16 had failed, after ratepayers in East Fremantle, Kwinana and South Perth formally rejected amalgamation. The…

THE sound of her car bursting into flames awakened Susannah Connor 1.30am Monday. The Highgate woman rushed outside her Harley Street home to see her Volvo 950 burning beyond repair and her neighbour’s car also on fire. “It’s verge collection time and it looks like someone set a mattress alight and the flames spread to…

VINCENT mayor John Carey says a betting man wouldn’t put money on the merger with Perth going ahead. Premier Colin Barnett said this week he was running up the white flag on mergers after three were formally rejected by residents in referenda. The Perth-Vincent merger was never put to residents for their view because the…

MARTIN TOLDO is trying to overturn a council decision to delay dealing with issues raised at the recent Bayswater AGM of electors. He has lodged a rescission motion that, if successful, would see the items come back to the council this month. His move is supported by councillors Terry Kenyon, Mike Anderton and Chris Cornish.…

FOUR-YEAR-OLD Téa Lake can barely move or communicate. She has tubes inserted into her stomach and lower intestine to administer medicine and enable digestion. If that wasn’t enough, she takes potent tranquillisers four times a day to prevent severe epileptic fits. Téa is the only person in Australian known to be born with microcephaly-capillary malformation…

THIS massive mural’s gone up on the side of an apartment building in Little Parry Street. We hear it’s a collaboration between artists Hosae, Daek, Ayers + Pures along with some of the Voice’s favourite street artists we’ve featured before: massive mural specialist Kyle-Hughes Odgers and alien creature-creater Martin E Wills.  

REMEMBER that time your landlord bought your new light bulbs for you? That’s right, nobody does, yet Vincent ratepayers are being slugged $9000 for light bulb repairs at Leederville Oval so the East Perth and Subiaco footy teams can play under lights. Vincent CEO Len Kosova has looked over the 21-year lease between the clubs…

PRIDE Fairday is on this Sunday February 15 at Hyde Park with live music, stalls, food, kids’ play areas, roving Sugar Blue Burlesque performers, and the semi-famous dog show. It’s on 11am to 6pm, and you can BYO if you are super responsible about it. TREMENDOUSLY bearded tree lover Greg Smith says he was a…

ART curator Leigh Robb is hoping her couture swimsuit will repel sharks when she does the Rottnest Channel Swim later this month. She is part of a four-woman team, nicknamed the PICAnauts, who will take on the 19.7km open water event from Cottesloe Beach to the island. “I heard sharks don’t like bright neon colours,…

AFTER three years of toing and froing, a men’s shed in Bayswater is still nowhere in sight. Cr Terry Kenyon has had enough, and has tabled a motion demanding that a men’s shed be erected in the city within two years. In 2012, Osboine Contemporary Aged Care, a residential home for the elderly, spearheaded the…