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Police Paddocks future up for comment
Community consultation has started on a masterplan to rejuvenate the historic Dandenong Police Paddocks Reserve. An online survey has opened for the public to help…
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Young athlete sets new standards
In a first for Emerson School, a student has sprinted up the ranks in inter-school athletics. Year 8 student, Omal Theodoro, 14, represented his specialist…
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Healthy boost for Hazara vaccine rates
The South East’s Hazara community is being targeted in an innovative promotion to lift Covid-19 vaccine booster rates. Data shows that linguistically and culturally diverse…
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Scores seek bills relief
The mounting pressure of cost of living in Greater Dandenong has prompted a community relief group to hold a ‘Bring your Bills Day’. About 150…
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Man charged over alleged crophouse
A 47-year-old man has been arrested by police at an alleged cannabis crophouse in Hampton Park. Divisional Response Unit police arrived with a search warrant…
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Fire engulfs Springvale ‘squat-house’
A recently-sold house in Virginia Street Springvale has been engulfed in fire on Wednesday morning, 13 September. For more than an hour, twenty-nine FRV and…
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Toxic waste operator fined
The operator of Dandenong South’s toxic waste dump has been fined by EPA Victoria for a reporting breach. Veolia Recycling and Recovery Pty Ltd had…
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Sandon report ‘sobering’: Duff
An IBAC anti-corruption report had exposed a “litany of governance failures” at Casey Council, says the council’s chair of administrators Noelene Duff. Speaking at an…
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Dandenong home ‘targeted’ in shooting
Two adult occupants were uninjured after shots were fired at their unit in Dandenong on Sunday 10 September. Several rounds hit the unit in Burrows…
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Boy ‘unintended’ victim of Endeavour Hills shooting
A sleeping teenage boy is believed to be the unintended victim of a targeted shooting into a home in Endeavour Hills, according to police. The…
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‘Citizens arrest’ after hunt for robbers
Residents performed a dramatic ‘citizens arrest’ after four masked robbers ambushed two boys walking in Narre Warren North. Police say the four males approached in…
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Boy injured after shots fired into Endeavour Hills home
A teenage boy has been injured after several shots were fired into a home in Endeavour Hills. The 17-year-old was sleeping when he was shot…