PLANNING and regulatory authorities are running two separate investigations into the demolition and rebuilding of private jetties on a public…
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FIVE diesel-powered generators are being installed this month to help avoid summer power shortages or blackouts across the Mornington Peninsula.…
DEVELOPERS may eventually find it more expensive to build apartments on the Mornington Peninsula than in municipalities closer to Melbourne.…
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate missing 12-year-old Hastings boy Kayil Blundell. Kayil left his Penshurst Avenue…
CRIB Point RSL ran a sausage sizzle recently with all proceeds going to a worthy cause – the Western Port…
TENSIONS are rising between those for and against the Tyabb airfield expansion, with one long-time Tyabb resident, who did not…
A DEAD humpback washed up onto the beach at St Andrews over the weekend had been a meal for sharks…
TOUGH laws aimed at protecting farmers and farm businesses against people inciting farm trespass have passed the federal parliament. The…
MORNINGTON police say the 500 students, parents and grandparents who rallied at Mornington Park last Friday (20 September) demanding positive…
THE driver of a Black Toyota Hilux being driven dangerously on the Mornington Peninsula Freeway later blew 0.249 per cent…
BURGLARS stole two cars and a motorbike from a Dromana property, overnight, Friday 13 September. Detective Senior Sergeant Miro Majstorovic,…
SOMERVILLE Highway Patrol police relieved one confused driver of four bags of cannabis he had allegedly left on the passenger…
THE sale of the heritage listed Continental Hotel at Sorrento has fallen through. Despite believing he had sold the four-storey…
THE executive chef at RACV Cape Schanck Resort, Joshua Pelham, will represent Australia in next year’s international Bocuse d’Or culinary…
THE amount of rental housing regarded as being “affordable” has dropped from 30 per cent of the total on offer…
RESIDENTS of green wedge properties hit with 20 per cent rates increases say they are at a “dead end” after…
SPRING can mean many things: flowers, lawn mowing, weather warming, going for walks and bike rides. It can also mean…
RENOVATIONS underway at Crib Point Recreation Reserve include improving the change rooms and reconstructing the oval. Mornington Peninsula Shire is…
POSTERS supporting the continued operation of Tyabb Airfield have started popping up around the Western Port area. The poster campaign…
AN auction of antique furniture and old wares has raised $8000 for the ongoing restoration work at Coolart Homestead, Somers.…
By Patricia MacLeod ENVIRONMENTAL group BERG MM is urging residents to look out for blue-tongue lizards taking advantage of the…
CYCLISTS should have a think about what they wear on their next ride. Brighter colours, such as yellow or white,…
A CRIB Point teenager has been arrested and charged over a series of raids on chemist shops at Somerville, Hastings…
IT took only a minute for two offenders to force their way into the Australia Post shop at Mornington and…
VOLUNTEER fishers working as citizen scientists to tag, release and report the capture of King George whiting in Port Phillip…
FORMER Dunkley MP Chris Crewther has come up short in his bid to be elected to the senate. Mr Crewther…
THE 2019 Roy Ward Leadership Prizes for secondary students were presented at the Order of Australia Association, Mornington Peninsula Regional…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire Council has praised residents for their “vigilance” in detecting and reporting illegal foreshore works on the beachside…
MORNINGTON Peninsula farmers and animal producers may soon be protected from animal activists trespassing on their properties and shutting down…
THE war on waste, the future health of our natural resources, bushfire preparedness and endangered species were topics of discussion…