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Lalor tour homes in on co-operative history

During the 1940s housing shortage, a group of passionate people formed a housing co-operative and built homes for 800 people, founding the suburb of...

Preston internet course a perfect connection for job seekers

Sharpen your job skills at an internet and email course, which runs one evening a week for six weeks from April 18 at Preston...

No minor matter: Sting smokes out Whittlesea shopowners

EIGHT shopowners have been fined for selling cigarettes to minors.Whittlesea council's manager of health services, Neville Kurth, said an undercover operation using supervised minors...

Peak hour pedal power on the rise in Whittlesea

MORE Whittlesea residents are riding to work, preliminary data from a Bicycle Network count shows.Last month, bike counters spent two hours recording data during...

Hume interchange: Whittlesea seeks $110m from Canberra

WHITTLESEA City Council is seeking a $110 million Hume Freeway interchange at Epping as part of a bid for more than $200 million in...

New Whittlesea playgroup helps young mums connect

MOTHERS aged 23 and under in the City of Whittlesea can connect with other young mums at a new playgroup.The group will meet on...

Pokies battle: Whittlesea Bowls Club eyes VCAT attack

WHITTLESEA Bowls Club may take its fight for 10 extra gaming machines to the Victorian Civil andAdministrative Tribunal if the Victorian Commission for Gambling...

Whittlesea spends $225,000 on pokies battle

WHITTLESEA City Council has spent almost $225,000 on its fight to keep pokies out of Laurimar.And it might have to spend more ratepayers' money...

South Morang station: Peak experience a road less travelled

Epping loans manager Alex Cedeno, who works in the northern suburbs but regularly attends meetings in the city, said the new station would not...

South Morang station: Half-time celebration for Mernda student

Year 12 student Kellie MacNaughton lives in Mernda and attends St Monica's College in Epping.Her dad drives her to school in the morning, a...

South Morang station: Here’s to 80 minutes less a day for Kloie

NW asked commuters how their transport routine would change when the South Morang station opened.SOUTH Morang resident Kloie van Hooft drives to her Preston...

South Morang bus routes on track for new station

TWO bus lines through South Morang will be replaced before the suburb's station opens this month. Public Transport Victoria (PTV) has assured Whittlesea bus...

South Morang station: A smoother ride beckons

WITH less than two weeks until the South Morang train station opens, residents have been invited to look at the facilities, meet their station...

Lily Gould awarded among ‘gems of the earth’

THOSE who know Lily Gould were probably not surprised when she was recently honoured with the Whittlesea International Women’s Day Award. The woman herself,...

My Voice: Rahat Arain

Rahat Arain, co-principal and founder of Al Siraat College, North Epping.My family moved here from Pakistan when I was five. People might look at...

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Power’s strong start

Laurimar has taken a lot out of the first part of the Diamond Valley Cricket Association Mash Shield season. After a couple of tough seasons,...