Collection: Local History Collection

Munster residents could find out as early as next month if their push to have part of their suburb renamed Lake Coogee has been successful.

A young girl living near Cockburn Cement has been found to have elevated heavy metal levels in a recent hair test. Includes a response from Cockburn Cement.

Janet, a Hamilton Hill resident, was arrested outside WA Parliament after refusing to leave the Extinction Rebellion protest campaign.

Situated on Remembrance Avenue in Cockburn Central, West Memorial Walk has 36 commemorative plinths dedicated to a conflict involving Australian forces, including Gallipoli, Vietnam, and East Timor.

Paid advertising wraparound stating the Liberal Party's stance on building the Roe 8 and Roe 9 roads, completing the proposed Perth Freight Link.

The Maritime Union of Australia has claimed scientific documents were misinterpreted to reduce the environmental risk of a proposed Outer Harbour at Kwinana.

Illegal off-road trail biking in Treeby has got so bad Cockburn council is holding a summit.

That Was My Home explores the hidden histories of the Noongar camps around Fremantle, Swanbourne and Shenton Park in the suburbs of Perth along the Swan River. The focus is the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, a time when many Noongar people lived with their families in camps. The voices of Noongar people...