Northbridge fire sends smoke billowing across Perth CBD

Northbridge fire sends smoke billowing across Perth CBD

More than 16 firefighting appliances were called to the scene around 12.30pm to bring the fire on Wellman Street under control.

  • byHeather McNeill

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First person in WA to be banned from party precincts

First person in WA to be banned from party precincts

Carl Matshazi allegedly tried to take a hunting knife into a Northbridge bar on New Year’s Day.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt
Taking Liberty:Fringe World invades the CBD

Taking Liberty:Fringe World invades the CBD

This year the Fringe World empire is expanding from Northbridge to the CBD as it takes over the long-dormant Liberty Cinema in Barrack Street.

  • byMark Naglazas
Christmas thugs on notice as strict Perth party zone laws take effect

Christmas thugs on notice as strict Perth party zone laws take effect

The laws give police officers the ability to ban troublemakers in Northbridge Perth,Fremantle,Scarborough,Hillarys and Mandurah entertainment precincts for up to six months.

  • byHamish Hastie
Woman seriously injured in cop car ‘collision’

Woman seriously injured in cop car ‘collision’

A 20-year-old woman has sustained serious head injuries after colliding with a police car in Perth’s CBD overnight.

  • byJesinta Burton
The Perth restaurant serving a sauce as black as vengeance

The Perth restaurant serving a sauce as black as vengeance

No Mafia is an oasis of cool in Northbridge’s demented but mostly joyous street theatre of the absurd. I’ve never seen a hospo team work this cohesively.

  • byRob Broadfield
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Why the ‘thug’ life could see you banned from Northbridge

Why the ‘thug’ life could see you banned from Northbridge

Protected Entertainment Precincts will be created in Northbridge/Perth,Fremantle,Scarborough,Hillarys and Mandurah,with bans lasting five years. The scheme honours nightclub manager Giuseppe “Pep” Raco,who died after a one-punch attack

  • byHamish Hastie
It’s a knockout:Why Perth city is losing the battle against the ’burbs
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It’s a knockout:Why Perth city is losing the battle against the ’burbs

With plans afoot to triple Perth’s CBD population by 2050,WAtoday speaks to three people who live,work and play in the CBD to find out the good,bad and ugly about city life.

  • bySarah Brookes
Could this deal save Yagan Square’s ‘white elephant’?

Could this deal save Yagan Square’s ‘white elephant’?

Plans are well under way for a new multi-venue space to resuscitate the market hall at Yagan Square.

  • bySarah Brookes
Bunnings proposal leaves gritty Perth arts precinct in a pickle

Bunnings proposal leaves gritty Perth arts precinct in a pickle

There are fears the district nestled between Leederville and Northbridge will be “destroyed” by a $25 million application to build a large-scale Bunnings store.

  • bySarah Brookes
Perth council headed to tribunal after homeless centre rejection

Perth council headed to tribunal after homeless centre rejection

Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas recently pushed for a decentralisation of homeless service providers from his local government’s boundaries to other councils.

  • byPeter de Kruijff