A LOCAL health worker says the handing over of a former Aboriginal kindergarten in Hilton to a “mixed” organisation is an “injustice”. Jean Lewis worked at the Kulunga Aboriginal Kindergarten […]

FREMANTLE council has been left with a $564,949 bill after it emerged it had underpaid 143 casual and shift workers over several years. The discovery came to light during the […]

PESKY teens in Hamilton Hill brought two Transperth buses to a shuddering halt by cutting off their gas mid-journey. The Chook experienced two incidents on Monday and Tuesday this week […]

MELVILLE councillors have approved a controversial $150,000 footpath on Beach Street in Bicton, giving pedestrians safer access to the Swan River. More than 40 residents had signed a petition opposing […]

RETIRED fisherman and popular Palmyra markets stallholder Don Heather recently launched an autobiography that’s packed to the gunwales with fishy tales. Of Fisheries and Islands is a rollicking read about […]

HE introduced American automobiles to WA, sold the state’s first petrol-driven car and helped found what is now the RAC, but not many people will have heard of Claude Deane. […]

CHRISTMAS Fremantle-style is well and truly here, with a mysterious decoration appearing on the corner of Holland and Onslow Streets. The brainchild of Mandy Rogers from Amandanaga Objectology, the curious […]

THE new-look Melville council led by mayor George Gear has wasted no time in tackling the controversial hi-rises at Canning Bridge. At Tuesday night’s council meeting, councillors backed Cr Nick […]