Students taught to tackle tagging
Come November, every secondary school student in Hume will be well versed in the legal ramifications of scrawling their name on someone else’s property.
Hume...
Breast checks essential says cancer survivor
Marlene Caton was sitting on the floor wrapping Christmas presents 26 years ago when she decided to lie flat on the ground and check...
Woolworths staff to campaign for jobs
More than 150 Woolworths warehouse employees have met at Broadmeadows to devise a plan to save jobs and convince the supermarket chain not to...
Uber provides an employment lift for outer north
App-based ride-sharing service UberX has emerged as a lifeline for out-of-work former manufacturing employees.
New statistics from the illegal ride- share service show most of...
Surprise $1.3 million gift for Broadmeadows
Broadmeadows is in for a makeover.
The oft-neglected suburb has been gifted $1.3 million from the state government to beautify Pascoe Vale Road and start...
Recognise these war medals?
War medals, a decorative dagger, coins and ladies’ and men’s dress rings were handed into the Craigieburn police station.
Police are still trying to find...
School bush garden to stregthen Aboriginal ties
Pupils of Altona Meadows Primary School have planted a bush garden in a bid to strengthen ties between Aboriginal students and the local Indigenous...
Students on mission to eradicate education diadvantage
Sophia D’Ambra is on a mission to eradicate education disadvantage, starting with Melton Secondary College.
Ms D’Ambra is a Teach for Australia (TFA) associate on...
Reading challenge accepted
Hume council has jumped on a global movement that encourages parents to read 1000 books to their children before they start primary school.
Mayor Adem...
Affordable family rental housing in short supply
Affordable houses large enough for families are in good supply in Whittlesea and Hume, according to the state government’s latest rental report.
The Department of...
Rent hike forces festival outside of Whittlesea
A Whittlesea-based not-for-profit organisation for newly arrived migrants is being forced to hold its annual dance festival outside the city after RMIT University raised...
Glenroy Grannies to hang up their bibs
Forty-five years of friendship forged on netball courts will not dissipate when the Glenroy Grannies officially retire from the game this year.
Team captain Beryl...
Teach for Australia expands
Victoria’s brightest minds are proving their worth as teachers, working with secondary students in some of the state’s most challenging classrooms.
The state government has...
Family violence prevention should start at school
The Broadmeadows Legal Centre has called on the state government to take a long-term approach to family violence by tackling it in the classroom.
In...
Cull slashes rabbit numbers
Rabbit populations along some of Sunbury and Bulla’s most vulnerable creeks and rivers have been reduced by up to 90 per cent as part...
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Call to finish stadium revamp
A Hume councillor is calling for the council "to finish what it started" at Craigieburn Sport Stadium by revamping the old areas of the...
