A RED Hill resident thought “world war three had erupted” when a wedding at a boutique bushland-surrounded hotel climaxed in…
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FLINDERS MP Greg Hunt has sailed into a storm of controversy over grants handed out to sporting groups and clubs…
IT was the day community spirit reigned supreme at Main Ridge. What started out as an initiative by Main Ridge…
AN accelerant – possibly petrol – was used to start a fire at Wittingslow’s Rosebud Carnival last week. Detective Senior…
BURGLARS who stole a large quantity of alcohol from Mornington Golf Course last week also made off with a tin…
WILDLIFE is being threatened by the artificial opening of the entrance to the Balcombe Estuary at Mt Martha. Estuary wildlife…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire officers can now get tough on jet ski hoons but, instead of issuing fines for bad behaviour,…
NOT ones for sitting around doing nothing in an emergency, the musical group Good Old Boys entertained shoppers at the…
FRENCH Island fire crews were in “clean-up-and-review mode” Monday 20 January after the weekend’s out-of-control blaze that destroyed 87 hectares…
ARTHURS Seat could have been engulfed last week when vandals fired a flare setting fire to long grass, 2.50am, Friday…
LAST Thursday’s Mornington Art Show opening has been hailed “a resounding success” by one of its organisers. Mornington Rotary Club…
VANDALS are smashing glass bus shelters up and down Nepean Highway with regularity and seeming impunity. Commuter Lindy Clarke, who…
FLINDERS MP Greg Hunt years ago added his voice to those fighting to stop Melbourne Water discharging partially treated sewage…
SHOTGUN blasts and Molotov cocktails shattered the overnight calm in Dromana, early Saturday 11 January. Detective Senior Sergeant Miro Majstorovic,…
A MAN who stole a bottle of spirits from a Mornington liquor store threatened staff who tried to intervene. He…
MORNINGTON Senior Constable Dave Burton and Constable Dylan Beaumont spotted a Mitsubishi Triton ute and trailer parked on the side…
SWAMPS and low-lying areas were once seen as a blot on the landscape, fit only to be drained. But the…
TWO groups operating on the Mornington Peninsula are part of a global movement seeking government action to counter climate change.…
SOMERS resident Rowan Brookes decided against taking it easy over the Christmas holidays. Instead, she pushed her body to its…
CFA brigades on the Mornington Peninsula have been inundated by volunteers wanting to join up to fight the state’s unprecedented…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire councillors are being told that it is “prudent, diligent and in the public interest” to make sure…
THE Mornington Peninsula’s horror run with road deaths has continued into the New Year with three deaths from collisions in…
WHILE CFA members from across the Mornington Peninsula were shuttling back and forth to help in East Gippsland last week,…
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal collision which occurred at Pearcedale yesterday afternoon (14 January 2020). Investigators have…
AT the recent annual meeting of the Hastings branch of the Bendigo Bank shareholders were advised that the reduction of…
Police are investigating a fatal two car collision in Rye last night (13 January) that has left two people deceased.…
A man has died following a suspected drowning at a Mornington beach on Saturday. Investigators have been told male snorkellers…
“OTHER than by connecting the doorknobs to a 240-volt charge I can’t see how we are going to keep them…
TWO community groups have been busy in the background raising money for bushfire relief. Red Hill Lions and Flinders District…
GENEROUS staff and management at McDaid’s Irish Pub, Point Nepean Road, Rosebud, had raised almost $17,000 for the state’s bushfire…