From the archives

2021

Star Weekly looks back through the pages of our predecessors…

10 years ago

March 6, 2012

Hume authorities see no end in sight for family violence incidents in the municipality with the latest police figures showing a 31 per cent increase.

7 years ago

March 10, 2015

Schoolchildren are being left stranded as a lack of local high schools and a soaring population compounds transport woes in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. Bus services are failing to keep up with demand as the number of residents of high school age continues to climb.

5 years ago

March 7, 2015

Hundreds of new jobs and almost 100 new serviced apartments will be created as part of Pacific Epping’s shopping centre expansion.

A Costco retail store and a Quest apartment hotel will be added to the centre, along with a new restaurant precinct.

1 year ago

March 9, 2021

Heritage Care Epping Garden is “not fit” to hold accreditation as an aged care operator, according to Scullin MP Andrew Giles. Speaking in federal Parliament late last month ahead of the release of final report from

the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, Mr Giles described the deaths of 38 people following a COVID-19 outbreak at Epping Gardens last year as a “preventable tragedy”.