A FAST-THINKING protective service officer saved property and possibly lives by fighting a bin fire on her way home last…
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AN elderly woman was lucky to escape serious injury when her car drove over the cliff after a two-car collision…
THE need to refocus efforts on preventing drowning towards older people has been highlighted by the 2008-2020 Australian Water Safety…
POWER company AGL says it lost about $108 million because of its failed bid for a gas import terminal at…
AN extra $400,000 is being spent on a business case to expand the Tyabb-Somerville recycled water irrigation scheme to Pearcedale.…
LAST week’s state budget had the “glaring omission” of not including any money to extend the metropolitan train line beyond…
THREE offenders wearing balaclavas pulled a door off its hinges before robbing Crib Point Cellars of $30,000 in cigarettes and…
SEVERAL government agencies are running a combined operation to stop firewood being collected illegally from parks, forests and reserves. Operation…
THE lives of residents are being put at risk because of an “ambulance crisis” on the Mornington Peninsula, says Hastings…
POLICE say a man referred to as “The Penguin” climbed over the gate into the candy bar at Hoyts Cinemas…
A MORNINGTON man has been charged with theft after police recovered allegedly stolen garden ornaments in his possession. The Mornington…
A MAN who entered the art room at Bayside Christian College last month allegedly stole two Apple Mac computers and…
A MAN was shot in the leg at Rosebud last week. Armed Crime Squad detectives are investigating the incident on…
THE Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) is unlikely to grant Mornington Peninsula Shire Council’s plea to ban the taking of spider…
DUCKS have just two weeks to lie low until the end of this year’s shortened duck hunting season. The season,…
OVER the next six weeks, Mornington Peninsula motorists will see blue and white signs in danger areas highlighting reasons to…
ENVIRONMENTAL activist Josie Jones, of Rye, got into more than the spirit of things when she removed 5738 northern Pacific…
STAFF from Hillview Quarries joined members of the Habitat Restoration Fund to plant 100 trees in Arthurs Seat State Park.…
MORNINGTON roads campaigner Ken McBride says members of the community would be “surprised and disappointed” to learn that there are…
PUBLIC hearings into Mornington Peninsula Shire Council’s proposed 2020/21 budget has exposed a clash of expectations between the shire and…
ABOUT 200 school students, parents and supporters at Mornington joined others across Australia in the first national school strike since…
THE federal government says it will provide immediate financial assistance to women who “make the brave decision to leave a…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire says its Reconciliation Action Plan has led to more Aboriginal children attending three-year-old kindergarten and more goods…
ARTISTS from around Australia have been asked to create artworks and murals as part of a Mornington Peninsula Shire anti-graffiti…
DROMANA and Langwarrin CFA brigades are among the first in Australia to receive cutting-edge, battery operated road rescue equipment. The…
MANY of us give our unwanted clothing a new life by donating it to op-shops, giving it to a friend…
THE long-awaited landscape strategy and concept plan for the Rye foreshore was approved last week, but not before being changed…
MEL Barker is the new chief executive officer of Mornington Peninsula and Western Port Biosphere Foundation. The biosphere’s chair, Jo…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire Council has withdrawn a $400 fine issued to a dog walker for not having their dog under…
A “PERFECT storm” of bushfires, industry cutbacks, COVID, people working from home, and government incentives for new home building and…