VICTORIAN artist Gosia Wlodarczak has won this year’s $15,000 Fremantle print award. The artist’s large digital print Process Capsule Situations Sofitel documents her time as artist-in-residence at the Sofitel hotels […]

WITH less than 10 per cent of wetlands left and the Roe Highway extension soon to barrel through North Lake and Bibra Lake, researchers have sought to recreate a map […]

A MELVILLE councillor has moved to pull back powers from planning staff, warning there is potential for corruption to flourish. Cr Nick Pazolli has convinced his colleagues to recommend that […]

IT’S the last stand. After 16 years of losing every battle to preserve bush at Cockburn Central, Felicity McGeorge is down to one tiny wetland. Now, that remnant is under […]

THE old Fremantle police station is one of five local sites to be sold by the Barnett government to help reduce WA’s whopping $21 billion debt. The other four sites […]

FREMANTLE federal MP Melissa Parke has again broken step with Labor party bosses, criticising the country’s build up to war in the middle-east. Despite Labor leader Bill Shorten being in […]

IT’S not quite as sexy as turning the sod on the first house so there’s no pollies fluttering about, but the Chook thought it worth noting the ground’s finally been […]

JUNKO MORIMOTO was 13 when hell rained down. At 8.15am on August 6, 1945, she was at home with her family when an atomic bomb, dropped by American aviators, exploded […]

FREMANTLE Chamber of Commerce CEO Tim Milsom says he’s been lured north by a challenge he couldn’t turn down. Mr Milsom announced his resignation from the chamber this week to […]