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  • Two face Thunder match-fix charges

    Two face Thunder match-fix charges

    Dandenong Thunder soccer club has denied wrongdoing after being embroiled in a police investigation into match fixing. In a statement to members on 26 February,…

  • Hall shutdown averted

    Hall shutdown averted

    A safety issue at John Pandazopoulos Hall has been swiftly fixed by Casey Council, averting a threatened shutdown of the hall. After a month of…

  • Final four locked in

    Final four locked in

    It took until the second last round of the home-and-away season, but the finalists to fight for the DDCA Turf 1 premiership are finally locked…

  • Listeria traced to Dandenong South

    Listeria traced to Dandenong South

    Health authorities have closed commercial caterer I Cook Foods while they investigate a listeriosis death. An elderly woman died in an eastern suburbs private hospital…

  • Inside Amazon’s walls

    Inside Amazon’s walls

    No car keys. No phones. No bags. No photography. Security was cordial but tight as Star News joined members of Greater Dandenong Chamber of Commerce…

  • Stand-off on park’s future

    Stand-off on park’s future

    Dandenong MP Gabrielle Williams and Greater Dandenong councillor Matthew Kirwan have clashed over the future of ‘surplus’ Melbourne Water land in Dandenong. Since 2014, the…

  • Climb out of ice addiction

    Climb out of ice addiction

    When Janice Ablett reflects on her efforts on the Ice Meltdown Project, it boils down to 150 lives ‘saved’. She shuns ‘harm minimalisation’, doesn’t receive…

  • Funding crunch for ‘first responder’

    Funding crunch for ‘first responder’

    Wellsprings for Women regards itself as a “first responder” to family violence. However from August, its family violence service is facing an uncertain future with…

  • Plan to fast-track velodrome demolition

    Plan to fast-track velodrome demolition

    Greater Dandenong Council is proposing to fast-track the controversial demolition of Maurice Kirby Velodrome in Noble Park as soon as March. On 25 February, councillors…

  • Speeding drink-driver loses car

    Speeding drink-driver loses car

    A driver drink-driving at more than twice the legal limit was caught in a daytime police operation near Burden Park, Springvale on Wednesday 20 February.…

  • Apartment tower for Herbert Street

    Apartment tower for Herbert Street

    A towering apartment building has been given the green-light among predominantly one-storey homes in Dandenong. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal approved the 13.1-metre, four-storey…

  • Supper Room’s new life

    Supper Room’s new life

    Springvale Town Hall’s revitalised Supper Room was aptly re-opened with an enticing morning tea. On 19 February, Greater Dandenong mayor Roz Blades cut the ribbon…

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