THE dinghy purge has started along the Swan River foreshore. Melville city council rolled out signs Tuesday calling the program, “an environmental win for the foreshore”. Dinghy owners like Bill […]

COLIN BARNETT is safe—Joe Francis says he has no plans to lead the Liberal party, despite his elevation this week to Cabinet. The Jandakot MP, re-elected March 9 with an […]

A SHATTERED Adele Carles has laughed off suggestions she might run for Fremantle mayor in October. “The Sunday Times made up the mayor rumour, I laughed when I read that,” […]

BEN ELTON has mocked WA’s creeping authoritarianism in a broadside at an arts launch. The world-famous North Fremantle playwright, author and comedian sledged grog rules while launching the Sculpture@Bathers show […]

Gerrymander cruels upper house chances LYNN MacLAREN admits there’s some soul searching going on amongst Greens after the party was steamrolled by the conservatives at the state election a fortnight […]

IT’S not easy interviewing a deaf person. It wasn’t the communication barrier so much as the stream of smutty jokes that transcended speech and constantly derailed the interview with gales […]

EMMA CICCOTOSTO was a relentless soul with the voice of an angel. The Samson mother of four, grandmother of eight and great-grandmother of 11 was a foundation member of the […]

RAYMOND GUERINI is the key to a Da Vinci Code-like intrigue involving the Italian royal family. The 62-year-old retired Southern Cross farmer claims to be the grandson of the last […]

FREMANTLE sailing club will ask its members to vote on a $3.6 million expansion plan which nearby residents say threatens popular South Beach. The proposed 89-pen extension of C and […]

FREMANTLE yachties say existing facilities at the Fremantle Sailing Club can accommodate the young and disabled without resuming more land north of South Beach. One member, who did not want […]