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Roger Cook labelled councils “unaccountable”, WALGA president Karen Chappel hit back.

Perth councils fire back on premier’s ‘unbecoming and baseless’ attack

A battle has erupted between the local and state governments after Premier Roger Cook implied Perth councils were being influenced by minority voices.

  • Claire Ottaviano

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A Buff Banded Rail caught by a cat at Lake Gwelup.

Roaming cats kill 47 million native Perth animals a year. These crusaders want that to end

The WA Feral Cat Working Group has urged the government to make an election promise to allow councils to introduce laws forcing Perth’s cat owners to keep them on their property.

  • Hamish Hastie
A cat’s life.

To catio or not to catio? Perth cat owners, there is no question

The popularity of cat enclosures is growing as owners look to better the life of their feline friends (and the environment).

  • Claire Ottaviano
The City of Wanneroo hosted the biggest council-led Australia Day citizenship ceremony in the country seven years in a row.

Residents in northern Perth suburb want ‘nation’s biggest’ citizenship ceremony to stay on January 26

City of Wanneroo staff said the decision to change or retain the date of its Australia Day citizenship ceremony was likely to cause upset either way.

  • Claire Ottaviano
Between 2019 and 2023, 136 people were killed or seriously injured on roads in Busselton and 59 in Augusta Margaret River.

Trial could green-light speed limit drop on WA roads

Could cutting speeds be the answer to the state’s spiralling road toll? A three-year, unprecedented trial aims to show the potential benefits of slower roads.

  • Claire Ottaviano

Taking the shot: It’s time we confronted WA’s road trauma crisis

We’ve all seen the increasing media coverage of the deaths occurring on our roads. These reports only last a minute or two, but the devastation lasts a lifetime.

  • Allan Blagaich
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Drive in movie goers enjoy a screening under clear Autumn skies. Long exposure.

Petitioners take aim at Perth drive-in theatre proposal over tree removal, late-night noise

A proposed 807-car drive-in includes four outdoor cinema screens, a central café building and mini golf course.

  • Claire Ottaviano
City of Joondalup Mayor Albert Jacob condemned the person responsible for cutting down new trees.

‘They’re an idiot’: Mayor lashes those behind Perth park tree carnage

Over the past two years, 56 trees planted in four separate occasions at a park in Ocean Reef have been poisoned or cut.

  • Claire Ottaviano
The quarantine area for polyphagous shot-hole borer has been expanded to cover the entire Perth metropolitan area and now includes two zones to help contain the spread of the destructive pest.

Send me a sign: Councils say state too slow in shot-hole borer fight

Councils are terrified the borer will get into the hills and beyond to the Wheatbelt, saying this would be “both environmentally and financially catastrophic.”

  • Hamish Hastie
Widows in Perth have been told they cannot be buried in pre-purchased plots beside their husbands because of a technicality.

Perth families denied burial plots seek ‘compassionate’ way forward

After closing a cemetery, a Perth metropolitan council has advised widows they can no longer be buried in the lots they bought beside their husbands.

  • Gary Adshead

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