Brand new basketball courts in a Perth park have sat empty for nearly a year after noise complaints from nearby residents forced the council to remove their hoops.
A Bass Coast Shire councillor has been cleared by a major corruption investigation into allegations he offered to spend up to $15 million of his private wealth if five other councillors agreed to support his bid to become mayor.
He said they had raised their concerns with the City of Wanneroo on several occasions but had been told the development was compliant with local planning laws.
Perth woke up to a guerrilla art installation on Wednesday morning which used comments about homelessness made by Basil Zempilas in November last year.
A block of land that mysteriously grew 200 square metres overnight has sparked a war over prized views of Sydney Harbour.
Millions of ratepayer dollars could have been wasted in contract extensions approved by unauthorised council officers in WA,a damning report by the Auditor General has revealed.
Opposition Leader Liza Harvey has criticised the government's handling of the scandal-prone City of Perth,accusing it of parachuting in a new chief executive without an OK from elected councillors.
As the City of Perth council election looms,the troubled local government has appointed Rottnest Island Authority boss Michelle Reynolds as the city's new chief executive.
High-profile former Ipswich councillor Paul Tully's Labor Party branch plans to censure Labor's Ipswich state MP Jennifer Howard for speaking out in State Parliament about Mr Tully's record.
"Cats are a menace. They are lovely,gorgeous,intelligent,furry,cute menaces."
NSW Local Government Minister says she won't flag her party's position on Labor's bid to ban developers and real estate agents from local councils.