A popular inner-city hostel is set to open its second “sister” venue, just 200m from its Newcastle Street site. Spinners Hostel is operating on Newcastle Street, but now, plans are underway to convert an old Fitzgerald Street office into its second venue. At a council meeting last Tuesday night, the City of Vincent council unanimously … Read more
Businesses concerned about speeding traffic and the safety of pedestrians have welcomed Stirling council’s unanimous decision to make permanent a 40km/h speed limit along a section of Inglewood’s Beaufort Street. The busy section between Central Avenue and Crawford Road is a hotspot for hospitality businesses and carries about 23,000 vehicles per day. A two-year trial … Read more
In a race against time to save one of the world’s most endangered parrots, Perth Zoo has engaged two German bird experts to conduct a world-first artificial insemination procedure. University of Giessen birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish clinic director Michael Lierz and Wuppertal Zoo bird specialist Dominik Fischer visited the zoo last month to collect … Read more
Football West has won its battle to stay in Maylands. It has been given a five-year lease of Gibbney Reserve Pavilion by the City of Bayswater. There had been a tug-of-war over the facility during the past few months between the sporting body and the Maylands Peninsula Primary School community, which wanted it made available … Read more
In extraordinary footage reminiscent of a David Attenborough documentary, row upon row of spiney antennae peek out from under reef and rock ledges and undulate with the current. “It’s now mid-summer and the sun is shining at full strength. The increasing warmth is the cue for the western rock lobster, or panulirus cygnus, to start … Read more
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