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Whittlesea ranks in Interface funds

Whittlesea council will get more than $6 million to help residents living on Melbourne’s fringe. Local Government Minister Natalie Hutchins has announced a number of infrastructure...

St Peter’s to celebrate sesquicentennial

Parish numbers at one of Melbourne’s oldest Catholic churches are on the rise, bucking a trend of shrinking Christian congregations around the nation. Next month,...

Lifeline for Whittlesea Community Legal Service

A one-off grant from the state government will enable Whittlesea Community Legal Service to employ two extra part-time lawyers dedicated to helping victims of...

Poor disability support ‘keeping people in hospital’

Hume council is urging the state and federal governments to investigate shortfalls in services for people who suffer a major disability through accident or...

Melbourne’s north west a hoon hotbed

Melbourne’s north and west continue to be hotbeds of hoon driving. Since record-keeping began in 2006, about 40 per cent of Melbourne’s car impoundments have...

Residents on outer fringes less likely to move

People living on the edges of Melbourne are much less likely to move than those close to the city, Australian Bureau of Statistics data...

Tullamarine firm makes meat processing safer

A Tullamarine company has developed a machine that eliminates the risk of serious injury, including amputations, in the meat processing industry. Scott Automation & Robotics...

Mixed signals leave North West FM in limbo

A community radio station struggled with ‘red tape’ for six years and spent more than $60,000 to have an antenna installed on top of Hume...

Council vows to plant 700,000 trees to beat heat

Brimbank council has vowed to plant 700,000 trees over the next 30 years to cut pollution and boost residents’ resilience to heatwaves. The council’s urban...

Grooming class lets every dog have its day

Do you think your dog has what it takes to be a doggie model? Then this could be your chance. With pet grooming on the...

Family holds car show for diabetes and MS research

When the going gets tough, the car and bike- loving Curra family gets going. The family, from Reservoir, and 70 of their nearest and dearest...

Hume in grip of obesity and diabetes epidemics

One in four Hume residents is obese. A new health snapshot for the north-western Melbourne region reveal the grim statistic among a host of other...

Two Broadmeadows shootings in one night

Police are investigating two separate shooting incidents in Broadmeadows overnight. Hume Crime Investigation Unit detectives have been told that two men fired several shots at a...

Soft drink crackdown at Whittlesea schools

You’ll struggle to find a can of Coke or bottle of Sprite on display at school canteens in Whittlesea at the end of the...

Craigieburn Ping-Pong-A-Thon against slavery

Human trafficking isn’t often the topic of polite conversation, but Craigieburn-based Salvation Army captain Peter Brockshaw says the sheer scale of abuse and exploitation...

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EDFL finals venues locked

The Essendon District Football League senior finals will again be played at Windy Hill and Coburg City Oval. The league last week announced its days...