FREMANTLE council’s planning committee says it can’t support mining billionaire Andrew Forrest’s six-storey hotel on the Spicer site. Mr Forrest’s company Fiveight has proposed a 117-room hotel on the site […]

JOHN DOWSON is the president of the Fremantle Society. He’s delighted Fremantle council ignored the advice of the city’s planners to approve a six-storey hotel application for the Spicer’s site […]

CYCLISTS are furious about the unsafe riding conditions along Cockburn Road in Coogee and are calling for the edge of the road to be urgently fixed. Cyclist’s Action Group founder […]

MELVILLE Bowling Club president Tim Smith has resigned as a “circuit breaker” to try and get funding for a new clubhouse back on track. Mr Smith acknowledged that his close […]

ENTREPRENEUR Melody McCarthy is the brains behind Perth’s latest fashion phenomenon, which has stormed the country and is now poised to go international. Fashion Thrift Society, which Ms McCarthy founded […]

EAST FREMANTLE is just one game from putting its horror run behind it. Today (Saturday September 17) the Sharks will run out onto Pentanet Stadium in Joondalup with an opportunity […]

FREMANTLE City Football Club’s under-14 team (right) have also had a big turn-around, leaving last year’s cellar-dwelling behind to make it to the division 1 grand final tomorrow (Sunday September […]

A FORERUNNER of the Fremantle Traffic Bridge – the ‘sticks’ railway bridge – was in the thick of the action during one of the most dramatic events in WA’s industrial […]

EXTRACT from Ron Davidson’s Fremantle Impressions CONFLICT with Perth is serious on May 4, 1919. Premier [Hal] Colebatch and a volunteer group including commercial travellers come from Perth in two […]