Local Government

Rough sleepers in south-east Queensland have been dealt another blow with a third local government adopting a hardline stance on homelessness.

Melbourne's Lord Mayor Nick Reece says more CCTV cameras will be introduced on city streets as part of what he says is a record investment in community safety.

Baw Baw Shire Council Mayor Danny Goss will be suspended for 21 days from Thursday after an arbiter found his behaviour in meetings more than a year ago resulted in misconduct.

A new assessment found sections of the path were worse than identified in previous reports, with evidence that water was leaking through the concrete. 

Cash-strapped NSW councils are struggling to keep local road networks up to scratch as natural disasters take their toll. 

Drone operators are mapping out local koala habitat to help council protect the endangered species — but one conservationist says south-east Queensland needs to re-think priority developments and urban sprawl.

Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece says the city’s ambitious plan to revitalise the Yarra River is not dead, despite it not being allocated any funding in this year’s council budget.

A year has passed since a surprise tornado struck WA's second-largest city, Bunbury, damaging 220 homes and destroying nine, but some are still without a permanent place to live.

The NSW building regulator has agreed to use an independent third-party manager to oversee the repair of hundreds of defective homes at Shell Cove, south of Wollongong.

The results of a local council election in the City of Whittlesea in Melbourne's north have been voided, after suspicious votes were detected by authorities.

The outgoing deputy mayor of a New South Wales town says she may be able to afford to return to politics when she is "old and semi-retired".

Members of a NSW land council who signed a petition calling for an investigation into its operation say they have since received letters accusing them of abusive behaviour.

The Peterborough community in South Australia is questioning why its district council cannot keep a chief executive after the newest resigned after just two months in the job.

In the middle of a housing crisis, when a sizeable amount of commercial real estate is sitting vacant, the Make Room project is billed as a blueprint for giving under-utilised buildings new life as residential spaces - and lowering carbon emissions in the process. 

Snowy Mountains councillor Andrew Thaler has been ordered to apologise for alleged misconduct. He says he has been denied the presumption of innocence.

A "very dry" 2024 winter has prompted a hardline approach to the use of backyard fire pits in Bunbury, but residents say the policy goes too far.

After a popular rest stop on WA's South Coast Highway was left looking like a landfill, locals and drivers are urging travellers to do better.

Sydney ratepayers have spent more than $36 million maintaining and rejuvenating a suite of ageing commercial buildings earmarked for removal to make way for a massive plaza opposite Town Hall.

Unapproved street signs in Arrernte language have been installed as cultural guides alongside the town's originals, with QR codes linking to the words' correct pronunciations and background on their meanings.

The cost of flights is taking its toll on travellers on the Eyre Peninsula where a local council paying a high price for its airport is begging for more federal support.