Photos of dog poo have put Vincent CEO John Giorgi in a stinky mood. He’s demanding an apology from resident Craig Willis who’d circulated the “offensive and repulsive” poo pictures to councillors, as an alternative suggestion for public art. Mr Willis wasn’t keen on the 300kg reading lamp proposed for outside a three-storey office and…

More than 12,000 people have signed a petition to oppose new laws that classify certain breeds of dog as dangerous. Maylands Labor MP Lisa Baker tabled the second 10,000-signature petition—one of the biggest in recent years—in WA parliament last week. She wants the proposed Dog Amendment Bill 2013 to focus more on owner education and…

The long-empty Greater Union cinema on Murray Street will be turned into a 21-storey hotel and office block after the plan won the thumbs-up from the Perth development assessments panel. Perth city councillor Rob Butler voted with unelected panellists Brian Curtis and Rory O’Brien to approve the project. The proposed tower had drawn criticism from…

Keith Yong wants to turn Perth into an international tourist destination. The Malaysian-born solicitor will run for Perth city council at the October elections. Mr Yong, 35, wants to make Chinatown and Northbridge cleaner and safer, attracting more tourists from interstate and overseas. “Cleaning up all the rubbish in the lanes at the back of…

Tim Clifford is an ex-Army reservist and worked 10 years as a FIFO on the mines. Not your typical Greens candidate, then. Raised with three sisters by a mum who juggled two part-time jobs while training at Tafe, the 31-year-old is furious with Labor for cutting parenting payments to 84,000 sole parents, the vast majority…

Bayswater mayor Terry Kenyon is keeping tight-lipped about whether he will run again for mayor at the October council elections. In Bayswater the mayor is voted in by councillors, after an election, not by the public. Cr Kenyon would only need to lose the support of one or two councillors to lose office. The mayor…

It was the street which brought the first milkshake to WA and from where a “down and out swaggy” became one of the state’s richest men. Barrack Street’s history is uncovered this week at the state library with rarely seen photos on display and stories told about its characters. “There are people like Peter Albany…

“We made a mistake on solar.” Mt Lawley Liberal MP Michael Sutherland concedes the Barnett government was wrong to cut the solar feed-in rebate from 40c to 20c per unit. The move had been expected to save $50 million over four years. Earlier this week, Colin Barnett announced he was scrapping the cut, following a…

After many years of debate, arguments in the park, and the odd defamation threat thrown in for good measure, the Forrest Park saga is finally nearing an end. Vincent council’s hoping the newly planted bushes between soccer players and dog walkers will end years of dispute between the two groups. Mayor Alannah MacTiernan says the…

Michelle Sutherland—who is married to Mt Lawley Liberal MP and parliamentary speaker Michael—will contest Bayswater’s north ward at the October 19 council elections. The Noranda resident and geography teacher at Hale School says she is passionate about preserving trees, transforming the Morley Galleria precinct into a town centre and improving the city’s cultural life with…