Armadale, Australia News

Haven't a clue" ... Kevin Rudd says governments don't know enough about indigenous communities.

Transperth has scheduled extra train services to help patrons get home from the Simon and Garfunkel concert at Burswood Dome tonight.

ARMADALE locals have broken out the bubbly after a local, Jackson Slattery, won one of Australia's top art prizes, the $40,000 Metro Gallery Art Award.

Wealthy Chinese investors are taking advantage of relaxed Australian foreign investor laws to buy property in Melbourne.

Western Australia's Premier Colin Barnett has introduced a bill into State Parliament, proposing extended weeknight shopping hours in Perth until 9:00pm. The bill will apply to areas within the metropolitan boundary bordered by Yanchep, the Swan Valley, Armadale and Rockingham.

Winner of the $40,000 Metro Art Gallery Award -Plastic Everything is Broken by Jackson Slattery.

A GRANDMOTHER allegedly bashed over a carpark incident at a Perth shopping centre has spoken of her harrowing ordeal.

Restrictions on the size of shopping centres in the metropolitan area could soon be removed, potentially paving the way for a new era of mega shopping centres in WA.

A coronial inquest into the death of a 15-week-old boy heard today how the boya s family home in Kelmscott was a a oedisaster areaa and would have been condemned if authorities had been aware of its poor state.

DESPITE slumping house prices across the country, the Real Estate Institute of WA claims the Perth market has made a strong comeback in the March quarter.

TRAIN services have shut down and about 60,000 properties are without power after a squally storm swept through the Perth metropolitan area today.

About 52,000 homes across Perth are without power after the citya s first storm of the season hit the metropolitan area at midday.

West Australians lucky and wealthy enough to live by the beach and river seemed to like daylight saving a lot more than those who lived further inland, referendum results from Saturday indicated.

The still life by John Brack. Raymond Gill May 6, 2009 RELATIONS between National Gallery of Victoria executives and former senior curator of Australian art Geoffrey Smith have been icy ever since the two parties spectacularly played out their differences in court in 2006.

A Perth man is alleged to have left a paper trail of bad debt worth at least $90,000 in Albany, Busselton and Armadale.

IT'S classic Australian irony that Foster's chooses May 1 - International Workers' Day - to release its most sumptuous object d'vin: Penfolds Grange.

A low cost housing plan that is aesthetically pleasing and looks like conventional masonry construction is likely to win a good number of customers from the region for an Australian company.

PERTH house prices have bounced back in the first three months of the year after a tough 2008, with the number of sales jumping 40 per cent.

Police have charged two teenagers over the alleged armed robbery of a pizza delivery driver in the southern Perth suburb of Mr Richon.

TWO childcare workers have been handed suspended jail terms for holding a knife to a four-year-old boy and threatening to cut off his penis.