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First Nations honourCommentsPremiumPlan to rename Riverside Drive after Aboriginal elders

A part of Riverside Drive in the CBD could be renamed to honour local First Nations’ elders, under a proposal being pushed by Main Roads.

Michael Traill

New faceCommentsPremiumEx-journo fashionista appointed as new Nedlands mayor

Online fashion retailer and former journalist Fiona Argyle is the City of Nedlands’ new mayor — a position vacated amid controversy in February.

Michael Traill

Huge newsCommentsPremiumNew primary school for East Perth on cards: Lord Mayor

A new primary school will be built in East Perth ‘within this period of the current government’, according to Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas.

Kim Macdonald

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New site in running for Perth’s first wave park

A Perth area with a ‘strong surfing culture’ has emerged as a contender to host the city’s first wave park after failed attempts south of the river.

Nadia Budihardjo

Heritage debaclePremiumTown of Cambridge’s $300k beach kiosk ‘backward step’

The Town of Cambridge’s plan to overhaul a heritage building after it spent nearly $300,000 on preservation works has been slammed as a backward step that damages its historical significance.

Victoria Rifici

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FrontrunnerCommentsPremium
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Long-term mayor to be Labor’s Porter foe

Labor's candidate to take on Christian Porter in the must-win seat of Pearce has been revealed.

Peter Law

Mega pubVideoPremiumTown weighs court battle appeal over pub rates

A Perth council hasn’t ruled out taking its rates battle with Australia’s largest pub to the WA Supreme Court, despite a tribunal ruling that The Camfield doesn’t have to pay up.

Sarah Brookes

Eviction orderCommentsPremiumCity’s trespass threat shuts popular Bocelli cafe

The City of Perth has forced the closure of the iconic Bocelli Espresso Cafe amid a legal battle with giant industry superannuation property fund, ISPT.

Neale Prior

‘Mass murderer’CommentsPremiumStirling name change ‘not a priority’: report

Stirling officers have recommended councillors not prioritise a ratepayer’s move to change the City’s name and remove references to the colonial figure who led the 1834 Pinjarra massacre.

Nadia Budihardjo

Social media attacksToxic social media dividing council

Rockingham council members have spoken out about their issues with social media posts attacking their intelligence, age and more.

Holly Thompson

Eviction loomsPremiumBitter showdown brewing as Bocelli owners stand ground

The owners of Bocelli Espresso in the CBD have vowed to fight City of Perth after a top council bureaucrat threatened to seize control of the landmark cafe next week.

Neale Prior

Forrest chase-offCommentsPremiumBocelli owners in last-ditch petition bid to save cafe

The Agnello family has launched an online campaign to save their landmark Bocelli Espresso cafe in Forrest Place from demolition at the hands of a $19 billion property fund.

Neale Prior

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Fast trackCommentsPremium
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WA war on planning red tape heats up

The McGowan Government is looking at its next phase of an overhaul of WA’s planning system

Peter Law

Moniker on the backCommentsPremiumKings Square’s new name a ‘tokenistic piece of wrong’

The City of Fremantle has been labelled ‘woke’ and ‘wrong’ for renaming King Square, with a former deputy mayor arguing the new title is actually ‘patronising’ for Indigenous Australians.

Caitlyn Rintoul

‘come in from the cold’CommentsPremium‘Pop-up’ male homeless shelter to open in Perth

A CBD community centre will be converted into an emergency winter shelter for homeless men — but won’t offer beds.

Michael Traill

Fireworks returnCommentsPremium‘It will be better’: Skyworks back on Australia Day

Skyworks will return to the Swan River next year and the Lord Mayor has promised to make up for this year’s cancelled fireworks display.

Michael Traill

Cracker show or fizzer?CommentsPremiumBasil wants Australia Day fireworks to return in 2022

During his mayoral election campaign, Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas promised to deliver a ‘bigger and better Skyworks’. Here is what he had to say as his council weighs up multiple Australia Day options.

Peter Law

Code rethinkPremiumNedlands keen to dial back density increase

Nedlands councillors are considering protecting an area west of Broadway from development — but its staff have warned against the move.

Victoria Rifici

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Airbrushing history means we lose valuable lessons

The discussion around changing the name of the City of Stirling is an important one, but there’s a very good reason why we can’t just go around erasing our history.

Jenna Clarke

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‘He had no chance’CommentsPremiumDog mauled to death but Perth council won’t take action

A family whose puppy was fatally ‘crushed’ during a vicious attack at a dog park are devastated after their local council revealed the other animal’s owners would not be prosecuted. Here’s why.

Sarah Steger

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‘Lack of respect’CommentsPremium
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Cockburn defends claims councillors ‘drunk on the job’

Elected officials have been called out by City staff — and even their fellow councillors — during a State Government investigation into the dysfunctional southern suburbs council.

Michael Traill

Name change debateCommentsPremiumCould dual naming solve City of Stirling’s problem?

WA’s shadow Aboriginal affairs minister Vince Catania says dual naming should be considered as part of a controversial push to rename the City of Stirling.

Caitlyn Rintoul

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Sacked ex-council boss takes over at Canning

The ex-chief executive of the City of Cockburn who was sacked after an internal misconduct investigation has taken over at another Perth council that has found itself mired in controversy.

Michael Traill

History under siege?VideoCommentsPremiumCouncil to decide on renaming ‘racist’ City of Stirling

City of Stirling councillors are set to decide whether the State’s most populous local government will be renamed after a push from ratepayers to scrap its ‘racist’ colonial origins.

Caitlyn Rintoul and Nadia Budihardjo