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A subsidiary of Kerry Stokes’ family office made the purchase of the laneway last year.

City backs blocking public from Kerry Stokes’ laneway against advice

The unprecedented $675,000 deal to sell the billionaire a public road included a requirement to keep public access. But the City of Perth seems set on another path.

  • Jesinta Burton

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A property commentator says the housing crisis has its root cause in governments gouging the property sector with higher taxes

Perth’s property slump: Data reveals more than half of suburbs in ‘negative’ trend

More than half of Perth’s suburbs are now in decline, with property sales sliding and former boom towns turning into real estate bust zones, new data reveals.

  • Sarah Brookes
Business leaders say high house prices and skyrocketing rents are affecting where people choose to work and making it harder to find talent, according to KPMG.

The big gains behind Perth’s best-performing suburbs

Perth’s property market is turning heads, with some suburbs soaring by more than half a million dollars. Meanwhile, others are seeing values plunge by $100,000.

  • Sarah Brookes
The pie list causes major FOMO.

Baker’s delights: Angelwood Pies brings irresistible blend to Leederville

Smart renditions of classic (and not-so-classic) flavours plus great coffee and service equals an irresistible blend of nostalgia and contemporary cafe thinking.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Claudia Maria Federico was sentenced over the stabbing death of her partner.

Little girl’s evidence helped convict mum of manslaughter, judge says

Claudia Federico denied she brought a knife to a heated argument with her partner Joe Nicoli in 2023, claiming instead it all occurred by accident while she was in the middle of cutting carrots. But her little girl had watched the whole thing unfold.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
St John paramedics have raised concerns about pleas for police to attend dangerous scenes being refused.

Cyclist killed in West Perth crash

The cyclist was riding north on Fitzgerald Street on Saturday afternoon when he was involved in a crash with a Hyundai Kona station wagon.

  • Cameron Myles
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Claudia Maria Federico is facing manslaughter charges.

Mum found guilty of stabbing partner to death in West Perth home

The jury took two days to come to a majority verdict. There were audible gasps from a packed gallery as it was read out on Thursday afternoon.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Claudia Maria Federico is facing manslaughter charges.

Perth mum washed knife, cut carrots as boyfriend bled out, court told

Claudia Federico was holding a large kitchen knife on the stairs of her West Perth home during an argument with her boyfriend last year. Now she’s on trial over his death.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Han Li Khor’s pastries.
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Naughty and calorific, this might be Perth’s most interesting (and delicious) brunch spot

It’s hiding in plain sight, and it’s got the goods. The baked goods, that is. Why pay for brunch? Here’s why.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
The damage to the truck carrying an industrial pressure cleaner.

What was that? Big boom rattles Perth CBD

A loud boom rattled workers in the western end of Perth’s CBD on Wednesday afternoon as an explosion on the back of a truck flung debris onto the Mitchell Freeway.

  • Cameron Myles

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