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Calls mounting for more COVID vaccine in Hume

Calls for more COVID-19 vaccines to be sent to Hume are mounting, with the council urging the state government to allow its staff to...

Hume postcode tops active case list

A Hume postcode that was one of the worst-affected areas during Victoria's second COVID-19 wave last year, has recorded the highest number of active...

Police investigating suspicious Thomastown car fire

Police are investigating a suspicious car fire in Thomastown earlier this week. Investigators have been told two people walked up the driveway of a Philip...

Police investigating reports of offensive graffiti at Jack Roper Reserve, Broadmeadows

Police are investigating reports of offensive graffiti at a Broadmeadows park. In a statement on the Eyewatch - Hume Police Service Area Facebook page, police...

Mill Park woman prosecuted for neglecting dog

A Mill Park woman has been prosecuted by RSPCA Victoria for “grossly neglecting” a poodle. The woman has had a 15-month community corrections order imposed...

Risk Hume lockdown stretches into 2022: Councillor

A Hume councillor fears the municipality will remain in lockdown "well into Christmas and the new year" if vaccine supplies are not urgently boosted. Cr...

Five arrested following alleged high-risk driving in Melbourne’s north-western suburbs

Five people have been arrested following alleged high-risk driving through Melbourne’s north-western suburbs overnight. Police said a white Toyota sedan was observed allegedly driving erratically...

Northern suburb COVID cases close to 200

Close to 200 hundred of today's COVID-19 cases are in the northern suburbs, including Craigieburn, Roxburgh Park and Broadmeadows. COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar described...

Final arrest in relation to alleged Broadmeadows stabbing

Police have arrested the final person wanted in relation to the alleged stabbing of a teenage boy in Broadmeadows in July. Police said a 17-year-old...

Elderly pedestrian dead after Westmeadows collision

A pedestrian has died following a collision in Westmeadows last week. Emergency services were called after an 80-year-old Westmeadows woman was allegedly knocked over by...

New northern jab clinics open

Two additional vaccination hubs have opened in the northern suburbs in recent weeks, as the state government strives to get one million COVID-19 jabs...

New tier 1 COVID sites in Hume, Whittlesea

Update: Seventy-eight of today’s 221 COVID-19 cases are in Hume, chief health officer Brett Sutton has announced. There are four new cases of the virus...

Youth embrace COVID jab

Hume resident and GP Amrooha Hussain is encouraging the community to continue coming forward to get vaccinated against COVID-19 amid a “huge response” from...

Warrants in Hume, Whittlesea executed as part of drug investigation

Police executed a number of warrants across Hume and Whittlesea yesterday as part of an investigation that has led to Victoria’s largest ever heroin...

Waste crime body disbanded

A body that was set up to tackle waste crime will be disbanded by Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA). The EPA’s Waste Crime Directorate was...

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Scott’s Australian chance

Hannah Scott’s rise through the softball ranks has been quicker than what she expected. Scott made her Victorian senior debut as an 18-year-old and had...