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A COMMUNITY “drop-in session” will be held to brief Rye residents on the $1.2 million boat ramp upgrade about to…
A DOZEN Rosebud Sea Scouts will join another 2800 scouts from across Victoria on the adventure of a lifetime in…
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate Hastings woman Gabrielle Betteridge. Warrants have been issued for the 54-year-old’s…
WHALE researchers are hoping a humpback whale calf born off Cape Woolamai, Phillip Island will be able to reach warmer…
WHAT’S a home? Is it a house, apartment, building, car, or perhaps a bench in a park? Sadly, some young…
Somerville Highway Patrol officers nabbed a driver speeding at more than 75km over the speed limit in Frankston last night…
BLUESCOPE is exporting tens of thousands of tonnes of steel to the United States from its Western Port base in…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire councillors will meet their counterparts from Frankston Council next week at a “working dinner” to chew over…
AFTER nearly two years of sometimes acrimonious debate, Mornington Peninsula Shire has increased the rent for land leased by the…
Police responded to an incident at a holiday park in Dromana last night. Emergency services were initially called to the…
WIND gusts of up to 100kph on Monday night last week brought down trees in gardens and blocked roads in…
SOMERVILLE Highway Patrol’s drug-driving Operation Nemesis on Friday and Saturday nights, 20-21 July, detected three drink-drivers, one refuse breath test,…
HOLLYWOOD came to Frankston, Wednesday 18 July, when members of Somerville Highway Patrol ran Operation Hollywood in the south-bound lanes…
A CAR sped off after knocking down a 68-year-old man in Mornington, 10.42am, Wednesday 18 July. The man, who has…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire rangers spent summer warning dog owners off a beach at Mt Martha even though the 80 metre…
NEIGHBOURHOOD learning and support groups at Mornington Community House have been thrown a lifeline with Mornington Peninsula Shire stepping in…
A TOYOTA van picked up outside Dromana Magistrates’ Court last week was sporting home-made plates: CPOAU92 (above). The 53-year-old male…
DRIVERS must keep left, either when driving on a multi-lane road where the speed limit is more than 80kph, or…
A PRELIMINARY report into the fatal plane crash in Mordialloc last month has found the single-engine Cessna 172 was making…
A PROPOSED solar farm in Capel Sound will be part of Mornington Peninsula Shire’s efforts to “address climate change and…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire had called on the state government to stop a $3 million rock wall being built at the…
THE Sick of Freeway Noise action group aims to unite frazzled residents along the Mornington Peninsula Freeway from Safety Beach,…
FIVE people were arrested by Mornington police after allegedly stealing alcohol and other property from the Mornington Hotel, early Sunday…
By Jo Cranstoun SOMERS resident Slim Cook and his brother Steve love the sense of adventure that comes from a…
THE adage “it takes a village to raise a child” has been proven to work over the past 12 years…
LIBERAL politicians were out in force at Baxter train station last week spruiking a $450 million plan to electrify the…
PUPILS at 14 Mornington Peninsula schools can start their day with a full tummy thanks to the state government’s school…
A MEMORIAL to remember the three victims of the 1993 Frankston murders will be held this month amid a community-led…
ENVIRONMENT group BERG Mt Martha is pleased that the major supermarkets have stopped handing customers single-use plastic bags but says…