A man has allegedly blown more than five times the legal alcohol limit following a collision in Mount Martha last night. Police were called to the intersection of Moorooduc Highway…
MORNINGTON’S Jennifer Willis became the first Australian with multiple sclerosis to summit Mount Everest. Willis is a mother-of-three, coach, speaker, educator, and climber, who completed the trek to the highest…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has voted to join a collaborative gas procurement program aimed at securing competitive prices for some of its largest facilities. The current retail gas contracts for some…
A COMMUNITY-LED initiative is bringing together businesses, environmental and community groups, and local leaders across the peninsula to strengthen local connections and help the region thrive. The organisation was founded…
Mornington Peninsula Shire is seeking community insight into its draft Integrated Transport Strategy, which will be placed on public exhibition for eight weeks. The strategy sets a long-term vision for…
LAST Wednesday (15 June), McCrae Lighthouse was lit up in recgnition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. This was arranged by the Peninsula Advisory Committee on Elders (PACE) which works…
THE Peninsula Community Legal Centre and the Mornington Peninsula Shire will be hosting a free legal information session on 13 November 2025 in Hastings.Speakers from the Peninsula Community Legal Centre…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire will be holding a green waste weekend from 24 – 26 October 2025.The ‘No Charge’ Green Waste weekend is for Shire residents or ratepayers only. These events…
BY day Simon Mildren is a Mornington Peninsula firefighter – but it’s his work outside the fire station that’s now gaining international acclaim as a beekeeper. His company HiveKeepers, one…
AFTER a period of upheaval, the Frankston Football Club has confirmed the appointment of a new board. After numerous resignations over the last year, the majority of the Frankston FC…
PROVINCIAL IN the last weekend of the regular season, Heatherhill took on Mornington in what should have been an easy win for Mornington but instead turned into an unexpected defeat.…
SOCCER MORNINGTON gaffer Adam Jamieson has signed Taketo Hosokawa from Bayside Argonauts and has now turned his attentions to a forward and a midfielder with impressive CVs. The pair on…
NETBALL players at Capel Sound are stepping onto a new kind of court after a major upgrade at Truemans Road Reserve delivered a first-of-its-kind surface for Australia. The six courts…
EVERY fortnight at the Moorooduc Hall, the sounds of what could be mistaken for a large family celebration backed by live music ring from the quaint, red brick walls and…
THE short film Dreamweavers – Gidja Walker OAM, by award winning filmmakers Heather Forbes-McKeon and Yanni Dellaportas, will be screened as part of the 2024 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.The 21-minute…
ART works featuring best furry friends of all shapes and sizes will be on show at Oak Hill Gallery, Mornington, this month.The Pet Project has an extraordinary range of entries,…
THE vivid and vibrant work of renowned contemporary artist and jeweller Lisa Walker and celebrated multi-disciplinary artist and musician Brendan Huntley come to life in News from Nowhere at Mornington…
ROSEBUD’S Mark Krieger has spent three years working on his latest book: High Spain Drifter, based around cycling in Europe. In the story, the keen cyclist sets off on another…
KATHRYN Whatmore knows all about the pressures felt by the wives and girlfriends of professionals cricketers – especially when their partners are on tour. “There’s a lot more expected of…
Howard Bull tells us about Mt Eliza’s own Reginald Ansett and how Channel Ten was born… NETWORK Ten is again creating its own news after announcing a big loss and…
WATCHING as a pair of lightweight, sharp-eyed swallows built a mud nest under the eaves of a house in Seaford has, decades later, led to Geoffrey Maslen writing two books…
By Barry Morris TUCKED away in a closed-up shed at the back of a Mornington Peninsula property rests a cardboard box of mouldy, moth-eaten papers and documents from long ago.…
By Doreen Jeremiah JOHN Jeremiah, together with his wife, Joanna and large family, took up land in Old Tyabb in 1894. Consequently there have been Jeremiahs in the…
A LIMESTONE cottage in Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento, and cargo shed have jointly won the Creative Reuse of a Heritage Place category in this year’s Mornington Peninsula Heritage Awards. The…
By Lance Hodgins Part Three The members of the 1913 “Greatest Team Ever” JACK CAMPBELL was the 1913 captain and, at 38 years of age, a football veteran. He grew…
