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Twin towers site revealed
The site for Armada Dandenong Plaza’s proposed $70 million twin apartment towers can be revealed. Concept plans show 12-storey glass towers up to 49 metres…
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Council urges counterparts: back your neighbour
Greater Dandenong council has used a national conference to highlight the plight of asylum seekers in the community, drawing attention to an issue affecting thousands…
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Man charged with ATM armed robbery
A man has been charged with armed robbery and assault over an alleged hold-up at an ATM in Dandenong. Greater Dandenong CIU detectives arrested the…
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AFL chases former heartland
AFL Victoria is bent on reclaiming its sport’s former Greater Dandenong heartland. North Dandenong Sharks Junior Football Club is currently “in recess” due to a…
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Floods of relief at Oasis
A group of Dandenong Oasis swimmers who took on the council over its proposed redevelopment of the facility are elated and relieved after securing a…
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Accused drug-dealer’s ‘pokies win’
A convicted drug trafficker allegedly found with more than $8700 and large amounts of suspected drugs in his car has claimed he’d won the money…
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Senior fights off bag snatcher
Police have released vision of a suspect bag snatcher who was thwarted by his 76-year-old victim in Dandenong. A Doveton woman was in the frozen…
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Fire engulfs carpet factory
A massive fire at a carpet factory blanketed Dandenong under thick plumes of black smoke. Eighteen fire crews battled to bring the blaze under control…
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Driver’s jail appeal
A 23-year-old concrete pumper is appealing against a jail term for a “hair-raising” police pursuit in which he blindly turned into a red-light T-intersection off…
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Shotgun holdup at servo
A homeless armed robber who pointed a sawn-off shotgun at a lone service station worker and demanded all of the station’s cash and cigarettes has…
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Ice-addict burglar ’dries out’ in jail
A Dandenong burglar with a self-confessed drug addiction has pleaded guilty to ransacking $19,000 from self-serve checkouts at a supermarket, a court heard. Steele Meier,…
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Hit-run victim, 5, improves
A five-year-old boy has been seriously injured in a hit-run collision in Hope Street Springvale. The boy’s condition had improved from initially life-threatening injuries after…