Drunk slumped over wheel
POLICE allegedly found a serial drink driver slumped over his wheel in a Dandenong carpark with a .219 blood alcohol reading.
Greater Dandenong Highway Patrol...
Trams take to CBD tracks
DANDENONG-BUILT trams hit new tracks in Melbourne last week.
Bombardier’s E-Class trams started running on Route 11 between West Preston and Docklands, the first time...
Crossings soil to be probed
PRE-DESIGN works have started on Noble Park’s level crossing removal projects.
Geotechnical investigations started on the Heatherton, Chandler and Corrigan road crossings last week, along...
Don’t get mad… make a difference
CORNISH College turned MAD last week.
It was Make a Difference week and students, parents and staff came together to learn about sustainability.
The whole school...
Choir is singing out for new voices
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
HE’S only missed four rehearsals over 51 years.
Dandenong resident Jeff Keyaerts has been singing in the Melbourne Male Choir for...
War’s truant teacher
By CASEY NEILL
PETER Brown signed up for a part-time commerce course at university to avoid being sent to Vietnam.
“I was eligible to...
Council boss to keep job
By CASEY NEILL
GREATER Dandenong CEO John Bennie has been given the green light to stay on when his contract ends in October.
Councillor...
Store fruit juice assault
A MAN was rushed to hospital after another man poured apple juice on him and assaulted him outside a Dandenong supermarket.
The victim and his...
Roadworks to ease up congestion
ROADWORKS on Abbotts Road in Dandenong South are set to cut congestion.
Councillors at their 22 June meeting voted to award the $4 million work...
Head-on crash: two hospitalised
TWO women have been taken to Dandenong Hospital after a head-on crash in Keysborough this afternoon.
Four CFA trucks responded to the two-car crash around 1.20pm,...
DNA breakthrough link in Dandenong cold case
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
A BREAKTHROUGH in DNA research has led police to link an unsolved rape in Dandenong to a suspicious cold case death in...
165km/h on drugs, police claim
POLICE allege a drug-affected motorcyclist was travelling at 165km/h in a 100 zone in Bangholme last night (Thursday).
State Highway Patrol East members detected the...