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Police pounce on cannabis crop-houses
A police operation has seized more than 1000 cannabis plants from crop-houses in Greater Dandenong, Casey and Cardinia. As part of Operation Bagration, police from…
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Arsonists target shed and bungalow
Greater Dandenong CIU detectives are investigating suspicious fires at a shed and a bungalow. Two suspect males fled from a blaze that started in a…
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Three injured in restaurant brawl
Two females and a male have been injured during a brawl outside a Burmese restaurant in Springvale. A verbal argument between three males and two…
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Suspicious fire destroys pool hall
Police are investigating a suspicious fire that gutted a popular pool-hall building in Round Tower Road, Dandenong South. More than 50 CFA and MFB fire-fighters…
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Freeway car-jacker at large
A driver has been violently carjacked while queued on a Monash Freeway on-ramp in Dandenong. Police say that a man driving a silver vehicle crashed…
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Lifelong Keysborough mates rejoice at $2.2 m Tatts win
A private syndicate of ‘lifelong mates’ from Keysborough are rejoicing today after their long-running syndicate scored a division one win in the weekend’s TattsLotto draw.…
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Work starts on central park
Work has begun on a new community sports court with CCTV and lighting in central Dandenong. Replacing the temporary Pop-Up Park near Dandenong railway station,…
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Street sex scourge
Residents in ‘inner’ Dandenong West are linking a prevalence of street sex workers, drug dealers and menacing perverts to large numbers of “seemingly unregulated” rooming…
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Eye-sore squats under the radar
You wonder what it will take for the clean-up of a long-standing squatter-house in Scott Street Dandenong. Star News believes that the three-unit eye-sore has…
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iCook Foods to sue as shutdown ends
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has lifted the closure orders imposed on Dandenong South commercial caterer iCook Foods after a food poisoning…
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Sky rail’s hits and misses
Promised parts of the Noble Park level-crossings removal project remain incomplete, according to a Greater Dandenong Council review. The report on 25 March stated that…
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Woodlee Street woes investigated
Greater Dandenong Council will launch a formal report into traffic bedlam plaguing Dandenong North Primary School. Cr Matthew Kirwan, who raised the motion on 25…