BEFORE photography, police only had physical descriptions of offenders to work with. Name, age, build, height, hair, eye colour, scars, deformities and tattoos. Retired forensic chief superintendent John Horton said this changed when Lieutenant Colonel George Braithwaite Phillips was appointed…
CELEBRATE fine food, wine and winning service at Portorosa Fremantle. Awarded best Italian restaurant in the 2024 Quality Business Awards, the Cappuccino Strip restaurant offers the best in European cuisine sourced from local fresh produce. The secret to its success…
VIDEO footage of the destructive moment a container ship smashed into STS Leeuwin II will form part of Fremantle Ports' investigation into the inner harbour collision on Friday. Available on the StreetWise page, the 50-second video shows 332m Maersk Shekou…
THE department of primary industries and regional development cannot explain why it cleared the Moreton bay fig tree at 195 High Street of shot-hole borer a day after its pest and disease experts said it was infected. On April 29,…
‘Mate, it’s safe. I’m grateful I have it.’ THE stuffed remains of the first shark caught in WA after killing a swimmer at Cottesloe in 1925 has landed in the safe hands of a maritime history enthusiast in Bunbury. The…
HITLER. Manson. Putin. I’d ditch my family name. But what if you were born with the same name as one of the most iconic spy characters in the world? Bond, James Bond? It is why ‘The Other Fellow’ by Australian…
HEADSTONES could be removed from graves at Fremantle cemetery within the next five to 10 years. Documents sent to StreetWise by Saving Family Headstones at Karrakatta confirm plans by the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board plans to expand its Karrakatta ‘renewal’ program…
JIRO Muramatsu was 15 years old when he arrived in Cossack in 1893 - just 30 years after the town was established. His father Sakutaro arrived in 1890 and opened a store in 1891, riding the wave of new pastoral…
EXCLUSIVE: THE preserved remains of a 4.3m tiger shark has brought together the US family of its victim and the WA shipwreck author who salvaged the ‘man-eater’ caught at Cottesloe in 1925. The family reached out to StreetWise to say it…
THE lights dimmed, temperatures dropped and dusty dogs turned tail today when the Moon blocked out the Sun for 62 seconds in the first total solar eclipse in WA in nearly 50 years. Even the stars and planets appeared in…
