IN March 2024 the most viewed story followed a fatal crash in Alkimos while another story highlighted the lack of clarity about the result of complaints about the Shire of Gingin – continuing the series on most-viewed stories on Yanchep News Online in the past year.
Call for information after fatal Alkimos crash reported on a crash on Romeo Rd where a 42-year-old male motorcycle rider sustained critical injuries and died at the scene.
Preliminary figures, which are subject to change, show WA recorded 185 road fatalities in 2024, including a fatality in Ginginup in May and a double fatality in Neergabby in the second half of the year.
The PTA receives feedback on bus to Yanchep National Park, which reported more than 270 people completed an online survey on changes to the proposed bus network, including feedback regarding a bus route between Yanchep station and Yanchep National Park was published on March 13.
The above story followed a letter to the editor Call for Transperth bus routes to include Yanchep National Park the month before.
DLGSC says it can’t say whether the Shire of Gingin is being investigated, March 16 reported that neither the Shire of Gingin nor the Department of Local Government would clarify if the shire was being investigated due to complaints and issues raised by ratepayers and residents.
Yanchep News Online contacted DLGSC to ask if senior investigations officer had met with some of the losing candidates in the 2023 October’s local government election and whether the department had received complaints about chief executive officer Aaron Cook whose resignation was announced on March 6.
Yanchep News Online also asked if one of the complaints was about the purchase of Lot 7 Dewar Rd, Gingin for future sporting land and concern that then president Wayne Fewster had taken part in meetings and negotiations when he should have disclosed any conflicts of interest.
The shire then announced a new chief executive officer had been appointed for a term of three years but as he was not starting until October 21 Mr Cook would stay on as acting CEO until then (and later take on the acting chief executive officer role when the new CEO went on leave for an already booked holiday at the end of the year).
President Wayne Fewster resigned on October 18.
