The Shire of Gnowangerup is spending $400,000 a year to ensure the town has a local GP, a sum which represents 8 per cent of its rateable income, according to shire president Kate O’Keeffe.
Claire Middleton
Travelling from Newdegate, a budding young leader caught the attention of policymakers when his committee’s regional recovery bill passed unanimously at the 2025 Y WA Youth Parliament.
Hannah Whitehead
Road upgrades and flagship recreation projects headline the City of Albany’s draft 2025-26 budget, which includes one of its largest ever capital works programs and forecasts a rate hike for rural landholders.
Melissa Sheil
Emotions ran high at the opening of the Great Southern’s first artificial surf reef on Wednesday as the project’s key movers and shakers reflected on the hard-won fight to establish the reef.
A Perth council is setting off down the highway to hell with plans to honour legendary AC/DC lead singer despite many considering Freo to be Bon Scott’s spiritual home.
Michael Palmer
After a week of council chaos in Nedlands, the race to reclaim the mayoral chains in surrounding western suburbs has quietly kicked off, with sitting mayors beginning to reveal their plans to re-run.
Harriet Flinn
A community-run Montessori playgroup in Bayswater says it has been blindsided by the council’s plans to sell the land it has leased for nearly a decade.
Sophie Gannon
Councils whose spending was questioned in a local government audit have defended their spending but agreed to tighten controls.
The newly primed northern circuit of the Albany Motorsport Park’s asphalt racetrack was revealed this week, part of the next stage in the highly anticipated development.
Jacki Elezovich
The closure and potential sale of the Woodanilling Tavern has divided the small country town in the Great Southern with the Shire of Woodanilling stuck in the middle of a change-of-use row.
The man who helped revolutionise WA’s agriculture industry, establish several environmental groups and serve his local government for four decades was deservedly recognised with a King’s Birthday Honour.
After more than 30 years of campaigning, Albany surfers finally got to ride their Middleton Beach waves as the Southern Ocean Surf Reef officially opened on Wednesday.
The allocation of more than $3.3 million in bushfire mitigation funding to high-risk local governments has been met with “gratitude and relief” by one of its first-time Great Southern recipients.
Laws surrounding tiny homes could soon be eased in the Shire of Plantagenet as a policy to allow residents to live in them for up to two years on private properties is open for public comment.
Taking part in the Y WA Youth Parliament is a fantastic opportunity according to Bayonet Head teenager Blake Medbury, who was Albany’s representative in the annual forum which took place from July 7-10.
A highly contaminated Wheatbelt tannery has been left abandoned and untreated for two decades, raising serious concerns for neighbours and the nearby town.
There’s a political adage that decisions are made by those who show up. Unfortunately for the electors in Nedlands, this is who showed up.
Ben Harvey
Sacked mayor Fiona Argyle has revealed where she believes the uprising against her from within — which came to a council-imploding head this week — really began.
Matt Zis
A Perth council’s budget has been praised as ‘realistic’ and the ‘best in the State’.
Optus and Vodafone have warned customers they could be in a dead zone after the Town of Victoria Park ordered they remove their towers from the Lathlain Park grandstand to make way for a proposed redevelopment.
With less than four months to go until the local government elections, City of Fremantle mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge has her sights set on another four years holding the reins.
Caitlin Vinci
The City of Vincent looks set to double down on its refusal to reconsider conditions for two concrete plants in the Claisebrook precinct, despite a State invitation to reconsider.
Victoria Park mayor Karen Vernon said it had responded to feedback from residents and lowered the rate increase, which was ‘sufficient to cover the town’s operating and capital expenditure’.
The door might be open, but it’s time to give some mayors a shove through it.
Jessica Page
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