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Big Don’s Smoked Meats founder Donovan Macdonald.

Big Don fires up Bayswater council tilt after loo frustrations boil over

Donovan MacDonald took to Instagram this week to declare his intention to run in the West ward where he lives and where his popular restaurant is located.

  • Hamish Hastie

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The Oval at Subi East.

Subiaco, Bunbury developments take out WA’s top landscape awards

One of the most significant urban infill projects in Perth’s built environment history and a “bold, memorable, and deeply inclusive” regional project won the top gongs.

  • Emma Young
Pictures of the tree stumps left after tree removal due to the Polyphagous shot hole borer, on the edge of Kings Park, fronting Mounts Bay Road in Perth.

Perth got millions for new trees. Not a single one has been planted

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. So why won’t $7 million in funding for new trees be used until winter 2026?

  • Sarah Brookes
Artists’ impressions of the new plans for Carillon City in Perth’s CBD. Picture: Supplied/Fiveight

‘Giving the city a new street’: Forrests’ $400m Carillon City revamp approved

The boarded-up arcade represents one of the city’s largest landholdings and its upgrade, including two 100-square-metre digital billboards, is hoped to inject new life into Perth’s heart.

  • Emma Young
Joondalup Resorts’ plan is for the area’s “desired future character”. But residents nearby are more worried about the area’s current character.

Joondalup Resort forms new northern front in Perth density debate

Planners welcomed a major residential development as appropriate for the area’s “desired future” character. Others are worried about the current character.

  • Emma Young
Concept designs for Hancock Prospecting’s $250 million office precinct in West Perth.

Rinehart’s $250 million development unveiled as Zempilas rules out heritage call conflict

Planning documents show former lord mayor Basil Zempilas’ move to drop a 120-year-old home from a City of Perth heritage survey is a key justification in billionaire Gina Rinehart’s bid to demolish it.

  • Jesinta Burton and Hamish Hastie
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A render of the Serai apartment complex with an inset image of Vanessa’s home in Alice Springs.

‘I’d rather watch the gardener mow the lawn’: Empty-nesters snap up Perth’s luxe apartments

Perth’s cashed up older community is splashing cash on the ultimate downsize, freeing themselves from the shackles of property maintenance.

  • Sarah Brookes
Images from Harry Cunningham’s series on Perth’s urban sprawl. Pictures: Harry Cunningham

The photographer turning the focus on Perth’s ‘endless sprawl’

Stark imagery of barren streets, mass-produced houses, and endless roads is the focus of a Perth photographer’s exhibition which captures the ugliness of the great Australian dream on the urban fringe. 

  • Sarah Brookes
An eye-catching arachnid known for its intricate courtship dance was discovered near Yanchep. Now, a housing estate is landing on its sandy doorstep.

Last dance for striking spider as Perth estate moves into its home

It’s a stunning example of the failure of WA’s planning system, say advocates: the loss of a rare and beautiful species for the “ugly monoculture” of sprawl.

  • Sarah Brookes
Black cockatoos are in dire straits across WA.

People ‘just picking up’ starving WA cockatoos as burglars target nests

At what point does a pet become a pest? Meanwhile, here’s why one of Perth’s foremost black cockatoo rehab figures is saying he’s ‘never seen anything like it’.

  • Emma Young

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