Concerns over new bus route
By Samantha Walker
Families may be dropping their kids off in the dark of winter if a proposed school bus route connecting Mernda to Diamond...
Tractor started tyre fire: MFB
By Samantha Walker
An electrical fault in a tractor is believed to have started the large fire at a tyre dump in Broadmeadows that blanketed...
Market reaches high gear
Excitement among car enthusiasts is revving into high gear as they get ready to put their pride and joys on show. About 500 cars...
Torquay to Adelaide ride for charity
By Samantha Walker
Doreen resident Hayley Tuck hadn’t ridden a bicycle for almost 20 years until a few months ago.
But last Thursday she finished a...
Sober Hume drivers impress police
By Samantha Walker
Hume was the only municipality in the state where no one was caught driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol during...
Hume council faces rates dilemma
By Samantha Walker
Hume council is facing a dilemma about what services and projects may need to be chopped from its next budget, after the...
In brief
Electrician dies
A 24-year-old man died after being electrocuted on a Dallas supermarket rooftop while at work on January 5. Emergency services arrived at the...
Goodness all home grown
Hume council’s Enviro Champions program is bearing fruit at Sunbury with a sensory garden that helps in the therapy of people with cancer. Registrations...
Medcraft slams expensive ‘farce’
Hume council is believed to have spent $54,000 on the failed campaign to separate Sunbury from Hume.
The money was spent on two inquiries and...
Cool for kids, guaranteed
Jyle and Stephanie Edgell and Antonio Pavone (pictured) escaped the summer heat at St Albans Leisure Centre last week. They were among hundreds of...
Cool crafts for kids
School holidays have kept Brimbank libraries busier than ever, with a host of holiday activities to keep the children entertained … and plenty more...
‘Toxic’ tyre fire rages
By Samantha Walker
Firefighters are pouring 10,000 litres of water and fire retardant a minute onto a large tyre fire in Broadmeadows, even employing water...
Four arrested in raid
By Samantha Walker
BREAKING: Police arrested four people in Lalor this morning in relation to a Macleod burglary on December 12.
Three men and one woman...
Riding for charity
By Samantha Walker
Doreen resident Hayley Tuck hadn’t ridden a bicycle for almost 20 years when she helped out on a charity ride from Torquay...
Police seek help
By Samantha Walker
Police have released an image of one of two men they wish to speak to about a suspicious grass fire in Roxburgh...