THE DEPARTMENT of Energy, Environment, and Climate Action (DEECA) has proposed four potential solutions for Portsea Front Beach and is seeking community feedback. The options include three long-term solutions and…
COMPLETION of works on Peninsula Link has been pushed out again. The Minister for Roads and Road Safety, Paul Hamer, confirmed the latest anticipated completion date for the final stage…
THE Country Fire Authority have launched Get Fire Ready, a Victorian initiative to help communities prepare ahead of another potentially challenging fire season. The initiative with over 630 fire brigades…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire will write to the federal government asking it to reconsider the decision to abandon its commitment to mandatory national packing standards. At the 29 September council meeting,…
Police have charged a man after a plate of food was thrown at a woman and child at the AFL preliminary final in September. The 34-year-old man has been charged…
HEAD of environmental group Save Port Phillip Bay and Mornington Peninsula resident Marteen Koster is leading the fight to keep VOPAK’s regasification plant out of Port Phillip Bay. VOPAK, a…
TWO candidates have nominated for the Briars Ward postal by-election following Anthony Marsh’s resignation after he was elected as Member for Nepean. Mt Martha-based Christine Leahy and Sue Ellison-Whyte will…
With only 100 days until the state election, things are off to a slow start in the three electorates on the Mornington Peninsula, with only a handful of candidates expressing…
A GROUP of Mornington swimmers will be participating in Cancer Council’s Daffodil Day Dip to help raise funds for cancer research. The Mornington Bay Belles meet at Fisherman’s Beach every…
MAIN Street in Mornington will be getting its Christmas glow-up again, with group The 4 Cs calling for more volunteers to help decorate every one of its 76 trees. In…
FOUNDED in 1994, the Mornington VIEW Club has spent 32 years raising money for disadvantaged students locally through The Smith Family’s Learning for Life program. The club – whose name…
SOCCER PENINSULA Strikers and Football Victoria are at loggerheads over the decision to play a catch-up game against Mooroolbark at Jack Thomas Reserve in Berwick on Tuesday night. Strikers’ recent…
MORNINGTON Junior Football Club has witnessed a landmark moment, with its Under-14 girls becoming the club’s first ever girls premiership team.In a heart-stopping grand final that went down to the…
MPFNL MEN’S DIV ONE SEN DROMANA managed to best Langwarrin in their clash in the first round of finals. The Tigers entered the game strongly, scoring 6.2 in the first…
SOCCER BAXTER and Rosebud go head to head on Saturday in a local derby that seems certain to relegate the loser. With the bottom two sides in State 4 being…
THE Western Port Writes Literary Festival is returning in 2026, and to kick off the festival year, they are thrilled to welcome celebrated TV presenter and journalist Lisa Millar for…
FRANKSTON will shine as a hub of arts and culture when South Side Festival returns next week, bringing 10 nights of performances, installations and community experiences to the heart of…
ART lovers and collectors are invited to experience the creative heart of the Mornington Peninsula when the much-anticipated Peninsula Studio Trail Artists open their studios to visitors on the weekend…
THE Mornington Peninsula is set to welcome a landmark new community event, with the inaugural Rye Community Festival taking place at the Rye Foreshore on Saturday, 2 May 2026 from…
A DROMANA filmmaker is on a mission to show women how to “show up for themselves” and accept the way they are. Niika Briskin has had a diverse career in…
MORNINGTON mother of three Jane Ting is using literature to change the way young people think about plastics and the environment. Through her picture book Soft Plastics to Things Fantastic:…
MORNINGTON man Alan Girling used his time during COVID lockdowns to make use of his interest in fishing to qualify as an instructor and volunteer with Fish Care. An outdoors…
A MURDER on the waters of Port Phillip is the mystery inside a new fiction novel. Death on the Ferry Hygeia is a new novel by Langwarrin author Will Spokes.…
OBITUARYDr Douglas Johnson26 July 1938 – 5 November 2025 DOUG Johnson was born on 26 July, 1938, to Gavin and Maude. He grew up in Albert Park with his brother…
Dr James Louis Edgeworth Somers THE father of the three soldiers was a larger than life character in Mornington and the wider peninsula community for many years. In The Bush…
WHEN the “Great War” ended in 1918, Australia had a population of less than five million. During the previous four years about 500,000 Australians wore some type of uniform and…
A ROSEBUD couple have celebrated a rare and remarkable milestone – their 70th wedding anniversary.Bill and Beryl, who have lived on the Mornington Peninsula for 30 years, met at a…
