State and local government are working to improve rail crossing safety in Bayswater, following a close shave at Caledonian Avenue two months ago. A man in his 80s escaped uninjured after his car was hit by a train at the Maylands rail crossing in April. The train clipped the rear of his car and spun…

UPDATED: August 13, 2018 The first names are up on Vincent’s street prostitution convictions website. The names of two men were posted Tuesday after both pleaded guilty May 30 to seeking a prostitute in a public place. One was fined $750 and the other $500. One of the men who pleaded guilty told the Voice…

An infamous Inglewood brothel has closed its doors— just days before a trial was held in which its owner was fined $80,000 for operating the bordello. Stirling city council rangers searched 835 Beaufort Street after complaints from local residents the house was being used as a brothel, not a legitimate massage parlour. The premises is…

The Forrest Park saga is nearing an end, with Vincent councillors voting to erect a barrier between soccer players and dog walkers. The Perth Soccer Club opposes the barrier but dog walkers want it there so they can let their pooches run around off the leash. There’ve been occasional blow ups and shouting matches at…

Locals seemed deeply unimpressed by concept images for a toilet at the Hobart Street Reserve. In May the council approved the outhouse, with Crs Josh Topelberg and John Pintabona opposing it. The contentious khazi was the subject of 191 submissions, with 60 in favour but most opposed, concerned it would encourage anti-social behaviour and be…

A Colorbond fence could end up costing Morley’s Coventry Village shopping centre more than $20 million in fines and backpayments. Bayswater city council launched legal action last year after Coventry failed to remove the temporary fence at the rear of the village and replace it with concrete. Approved plans stipulated concrete, with the council agreeing…

Like many of us growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, William Heerey was saturated by American TV and movies. Your morning cartoons were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, you pretended to be Robocop at school, playing with toy guns, and then headed home to watch Back to the Future on VHS. When the Perth-based street…

Sites suggested by Bayswater city council as a home for a men’s shed have been described as “unsatisfactory” by coordinator Jim Chantry. A council report earmarks Maylands Autumn Centre, the pre-primary schools of Morley, West Morley and Embleton and the migrant centre on Guildford Road. Mr Chantry, who is helping the council establish the shed…

A popular festival that drew 8000 people to the Perth Cultural Centre in February is shifting to Fremantle. The planned move of the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival caught the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority, which runs the cultural centre, on the hop. MRA CEO Kieran Kinsella says his organisation has been involved in negotiations over next year’s…

Woolworths is appealing the rejection of its $3.5 million plans to redevelop the Peninsula Tavern in Maylands. The Bayswater development assessment panel this year knocked back the makeover on planning grounds, including non-compliant building setbacks. Woolies will now appeal that ruling to the unelected but powerful state administrative tribunal. The application for the Railway Parade…