"I get itchy feet when I'm home too long," country singer Kasey Chambers tells HELEN MUSA ahead of her 30-date Backbone ...

"The construction of light rail stage 2a is bloody minded and is a reckless approach to development issues," writes planning columnist MIKE QUIRK.

Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's Arts in the City column looking at what's making news around the local arts scene this week.

Letter writer MURRAY MAY, of Cook, worries that the bureaucratic bias is to protect dangerous tree, not the people below them ...

"School should be a welcoming, safe and inclusive place for all students, families and staff," says Safe Schools' TIM BAVINTON ...

A highly populated coastline is preparing for a tropical cyclone to make landfall as a category two system in days.