A legal barney between the Shire of Mt Magnet and a local vanadium play over rates charges has escalated to the point where the State Government has to draw up new laws to fix the mess.
Simone Grogan
Two Wheatbelt stalwarts were recognised on a State level for their dedicated work and ideas in local government at the 2025 WA Local Government Association awards earlier this month.
Hannah Whitehead
Lorraine Young says her decision to finish as Cottesloe mayor in October isn’t the end of her council career.
Harriet Flinn
The meeting agenda outlined some of Nedlands’ most urgent issues for discussion and decision.
Harriet Flinn and Oliver Lane
The town was one of six local governments subject to an Office of the Auditor General investigation of their spending.
Michael Palmer
Denmark Visitor Centre will be shut down after the Shire of Denmark council voted on Tuesday to close the facility and re-purpose the building to house the Denmark library, despite booming tourism figures.
Jacki Elezovich
Shire of Denmark council voted on Tuesday night to hold a special meeting on August 12 to decide the next steps for a town pool, with the community turning out in force to show their support for the motion.
Deputy Lord Mayor Bruce Reynolds will nominate for the Perth Lord Mayor position in the October elections, with the bold pitch of making Perth the safest capital city in the country.
Oliver Lane
The Shire of Katanning president has assured residents they will see “solid use” of its rate rise, as the shire adopted its 2025-26 budget earlier this month.
Melissa Sheil
Business is booming in Albany, with a report revealing local spending is 10 per cent higher than this time last year and a surge in Sunday revenue after the 2024 decision to allow seven-day trading.
A decades-long call for Denmark to have its own aquatic facility is being renewed, with the council to consider conducting a poll to gauge the community’s appetite for a pool at this week’s ordinary meeting.
Shire of Denmark rates will be decided at a special council meeting on Tuesday where a rise of 4.8 per cent is expected to be approved.
Claire Middleton
The rate rise will help fund the Shire’s plans to deliver substantial upgrades to local community spaces.
Ava Berryman
Despite booming tourism, Denmark is considering shutting down its visitor centre and turning it into a library, arguing the funds will be better spent “managing the consequences” of extra visitors to the town.
South Perth Mill Point ward Councillor Nic Coveney has announced his resignation over the weekend via a post on social media.
Sophie Gannon
The Chief Commissioner tasked with overseeing the City of Nedlands says his experience in a mass resignation of councillors three decades ago will give him better understanding of the task ahead.
Cameras have been installed on the foreshore after a young tall tree at Lake Douglas, located just 20m from trees the council has voted to remove, was seemingly poisoned.
The newly appointed chair commissioner of Nedlands has described the job ahead as a ‘huge task’ as they prepare to take control of the troubled council for the next seven months.
Charlton Hart and Harriet Flinn
Sacked mayor Fiona Argyle claims she has been ‘rolled by the WA State Government for doing my job’.
Harriet Flinn and Charlton Hart
This financial year the City of Albany will deliver its largest-ever capital works program, following the council’s approval of the 2025-2026 budget on Tuesday night.
The City of South Perth council has ignored a staff recommendation to keep six trees recently planted near Lake Douglas after locals complained they would obstruct expensive views of the Perth CBD.
The Shire of Gnowangerup is spending $400,000 a year to ensure the town has a local GP, a sum which represents 8 per cent of its rateable income, according to shire president Kate O’Keeffe.
Travelling from Newdegate, a budding young leader caught the attention of policymakers when his committee’s regional recovery bill passed unanimously at the 2025 Y WA Youth Parliament.
Road upgrades and flagship recreation projects headline the City of Albany’s draft 2025-26 budget, which includes one of its largest ever capital works programs and forecasts a rate hike for rural landholders.
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