FREMANTLE council is ducking for cover after a 10-metre limestone retaining wall being built next to a school was so unsound it had to be demolished before it collapsed. Contractors—who […]

A SOUTH LAKE resident bashed after thwarting would-be car thieves on the weekend says police who attended the scene treated him like an “inconvenience” rather than a crime victim. John, […]

A GROUP of neighbours trying to get their local park upgraded believe they’ve discovered a glitch in Melville council’s Robin Hood grants program. The Macrae Macleod Community Green Space Fan […]

ALDI says there’s little it can do about its proposed supermarket in Hilton facing away from South Street (“ALDI cops a Hilton hiding,” Herald, April 25, 2015). Locals say the […]

KRZYSZTOF BARNAS is planning to stay awake for almost three days straight while tattooing customers. Barnas, 29, aims to tattoo one person after another for 70 hours, with just a […]

FREMANTLE’S Candice-Marie Fox has received hate mail for claiming her consumption of up to four pineapples a day helped cure her cancer. The 31-year-old was bombarded with hate mail after […]

BILLY HUGHES was prepared to sacrifice an entire generation of young Australian men to help his imperial masters in Britain win the first world war, a local historian has discovered. […]

MANY Aussies can say hello in a half-dozen foreign tongues but few know even a single word of any Aboriginal language. Noongar woman Sharon Gregory’s trying to change that: for […]

JOHN CURTIN College of the Arts is amongst the first recipients of a new award that aims to stem Australia’s scientific brain drain. WA governor Kerry Sanderson visited the Fremantle […]