Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged three people after a car was allegedly stolen and a 3D printed firearm was located in Frankston this morning. It is alleged understood…
A GROUP of concerned animal welfare advocates have held a peaceful vigil outside RSPCA Victoria’s headquarters as it investigates reports of underweight horses at a Mt Eliza property. The vigil…
NOTE: This story has been updated to remove quotations incorrectly attributed to McDonald’s chief restaurant officer Brad McMullen. The quotes were supplied by someone claiming to be McMullen, confirming that…
SOMERVILLE businessman and publisher of the Somerville Times and Peninsula Local publications, and the stplnews.com.au website, Jamie (Jay) Scicluna has been ordered to pay $5000 towards the legal costs of…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Koala Conservation Group (MPKC) started the planting season on Saturday 31 May with an event in Dromana. Volunteers planted 1500 trees and shrubs over two days after the…
ARMED with beads, big dreams, and a big heart, 11-year-old Hope Blythe of Hastings is making a significant impact in the fight against motor neurone disease (MND). Every year she…
MEET dolphin #89, a resident of Port Phillip Bay’s unique community of common dolphins. Photographed recently by Ella Hutchinson, the Williamson Research Fellow with the Dolphin Research Institute, #89 was…
By Raia Flinos PENINSULA Raiders Over 35s Women have broken through for their first ever win, marking a historic and hard-earned victory. They faced the Northside Lions on the 31st…
A GROUP of life savers from Mordialloc and Portsea will travel to California next month to take part in an international competition.Ciara Walsh from Mordialloc LSC will join nine other…
SOCCER LANGWARRIN made it three wins in a row with Saturday’s 2-1 home success over Manningham United Blues. The result cemented the local side’s grip of the all-important 11th position…
By Chris Richmond ROSS “Rossco” Twyford has run out for the 300th time for the Peninsula Raiders. This extraordinary feat, a first for any Raiders player, places Ross in esteemed…
PEARCEDALE artist Merran Berry has joined the Peninsula Studio Trail, which sees artists open their studios to the public next month.Berry, of Favourite Hill Road, also creates sculpture from recycled…
AUSTRIAN composer Franz Schubert died at the age of 31 at a time when he should have been at his most productive. He left a symphony incomplete, his famous Unfinished…
NEW Wave 24 is an exhibition at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery that showcases the works of local VCE and VCE VET art, visual art, media arts, fashion, design and technology…
LATE-career painter Stewart Westle, from Red Hill, is holding an exhibition of 45 of his works at Manyung Gallery’s art and design studio in Progress Street, Mornington.Westle’s work features a…
By Anne Whitehead * THE trained eye of the owner of an art gallery and antiques shop in Potts Point, Sydney was drawn to a miniature portrait while browsing the…
ON Saturday 26 March, Hastings Primary School will celebrate it’s 150th year. The school was established formally in 1872, the same year the Victorian Government introduced the 1872 Education Act,…
OBITUARY Ronald John David Grant 22 October 1930 – 7 January 2022 By Peter McCullough WELL known resident of the Western Port area, Ron Grant, passed away at Peninsula Private…
IT may seem hard to imagine now, but 100 years ago on Thursday 2 December crowds gathered at Red Hill to welcome the arrival of dignitary-packed passenger train. After the…
