DESPITE once declaring he wouldn’t play a town he hadn’t heard of Bob Dylan is heading to the port city to grace the grassy fields of Fremantle Park for next year’s Blues ‘n’ Roots festival on April 17.

EAST FREMANTLE mayor Alan Ferris is talking up the benefits of a possible sale of the Leeuwin Barracks for housing. The riverside site is likely to be earmarked for sale in the imminent Defence White Paper.

FREMANTLE city council approved its fair pay policy this week. The new policy directs city managers to work towards four per cent of the council workforce being indigenous.

WOONERF is set to hit Fremantle. The Dutch-inspired movement to reclaim streets from motor car dominance has already been adopted in cities across the US, Canada, Europe and the UK. Now Fremantle city council is hoping to trial the road-sharing concept along the capuccino strip.

FREMANTLE city council is set to be handed Princess May Park by the state government. The council has leased the park for more than 20 years but the former Labor government had been looking at handing it to the National Trust.

BIG boat racing is coming back to the port city in April with the return of the blue water classic the Fremantle to Bali yacht race.

ELECTRIC prods are being used illegally on Fremantle wharf, with the painful devices being shoved into the faces of sheep and cattle during the loading of live exports. It is illegal to use prods on the face or genitals. Footage received by the Fremantle Herald shows the prods being used indescriminately.

FREMANTLE federal Labor MP Melissa Parke has gone public with her support for same-sex marriage.

FREMANTLE Prison had confirmed it is talking to Youth Hostels Australia about hiring out the former women’s prison as short-stay hostel accommodation. WA Treasury spokesperson Stephen Worner says YHA has submitted a development proposal to Freo council.

FREMANTLE ratepayers are to foot the bill for removing seaweed form Bathers Beach because sailing world championship organisers say it “does not smell nice”.