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COMMENT “ROLL out the rate cap,” one hears muttered across the peninsula as people prepare to fork out for their…
Three boys are currently in custody following a hit-run collision in Carrum Downs on Wednesday night which left a woman…
Police are investigating following a hit-run collision involving a pedestrian and a motorcycle in Carrum Downs this evening. It is…
TWO snorkelers were rescued by the Police Air Wing Saturday afternoon after being stuck in an inlet near Tasman Drive, Rye.…
THE $16.3 million police station about to be opened at Somerville is a debacle, according to a former detective. Former…
THE summit picnic area atop Arthurs Seat and the car park at the bottom will be closed for about 15…
COUNCILLORS have taken a decisive step towards closing Mornington Peninsula Shire’s last rubbish tip, at Rye, after a long campaign…
TONY Abbott was ousted as prime minister last week by his Liberal Party colleagues but local federal MPs Bruce Billson…
THE “advocacy organisation” GetUp has a planned campaign to keep up the pressure on Flinders MP and Environment Minister Greg…
A DISGRUNTLED French Islander who allegedly threatened to “blow up” the Stony Point to Tankerton ferry, Thursday 3 September, has…
THE leader of a mosque at Langwarrin believes a vendetta is being waged against his congregation. Imam Syed Wadood Janud…
ANALYSIS RUMOURS of BlueScope Steel closing its Port Kembla blast furnace in Wollongong and reorganising its Australian flat steel production…
MORNINGTON builder L Clarke and Sons has asked Mornington Peninsula Shire for approval to build a two-storey apartment complex on…
CRIME gangs with a disciplined culture and ability to plan and set targets has given a new potency to crime…
TOORAK College, Mt Eliza, was in lock-down Wednesday morning after a bomb scare. Students were kept in their classrooms for…
Two people have escaped unharmed after three armed men broke into their home in Hastings overnight. The men entered the…
THE state planning tribunal did not make an “accidental slip” in its Arthurs Seat gondola permit conditions, as claimed by…
THE shire council will ask South East Water to set aside 10 per cent of its 2.8-hectare decommissioned reservoir site…
POLICE have seized live and dried cannabis plants with an estimated value of $261,000 during a raid on a Mt…
A Langwarrin woman has had her license suspended after allegedly drink driving in Langwarrin this evening. Officers from Frankston Highway…
Mornington Police have seized a substantial amount of cannabis plants following a warrant in Mount Eliza this morning. Investigators executed…
THE future of Esso’s Long Island Point fractionation plant at Hastings is assured as the company charges ahead to tap…
THE developers of a proposed $47 million retirement village at Somerville – knocked back by the shire in June –…
ESSO is edging closer to extracting gas from a new field in Bass Strait, guaranteeing the long-term future of…
ONGOING tensions within the Liberal Party over the legalisation of same-sex marriage have been downplayed by federal MP for Flinders…
MORNINGTON Racing Club has been given more than $2 million of state government money towards a $5m renovation of its…
Police are appealing for witnesses following an incident on Frankston Flinders Road in Frankston this morning. A man believed to…
THE Arthurs Seat gondola may return to the state planning tribunal – and shire councillors – over a query about…
MORNINGTON MP David Morris has called on state Environment Minister Lisa Neville to save the South East Water reservoir land…