News
-
Go karts should go down to the wire: ex-mayor
Former Casey mayor Rob Wilson has weighed in against plans for a go-kart racing track in Hallam. Mr Wilson argues there’s no room for the…
-
Reunion of the century
It’s billed as a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ school reunion. Marking the centenary of Dandenong High School, ex-students from around the world are converging for a weekend of…
-
Wings of change
As old buildings come crashing down, it’s in with the new wings at Lyndale Secondary College. In dramatic contrast, a modern new auditorium, STEM classrooms…
-
Power battle
Neighbours say they are betrayed by plans for a 68,000-panel solar farm on a former Green Wedge landfill in Clarke Road Springvale South. They are…
-
School merger marks 10
Dandenong High School has marked 10 years since a momentous merger of three schools. Back in 2009, Doveton and Cleeland secondary colleges merged into Dandenong…
-
Men suffer in sickly silence
Alarming male suicide rates do not just stem from a biological cause, says Associate Professor of Psychiatry and popular author Greg de Moore. It has…
-
74yo pervert fails to declare child
A 74-year-old registered child sex offender has pleaded guilty to failing to notify authorities of his four-year-old son that he’d been regularly visiting in Vietnam.…
-
Driver sleeps in drug-laden SUV
A man has pleaded guilty to a string of charges after being found asleep at the wheel of an idling car full of drugs, ammunition…
-
Drunk robbed blind
Three women have been arrested over an alleged violent robbery of a drunk man in central Dandenong. The 25-year-old victim approached the women, asking them…
-
Hidden keys found, truck lost
A 2018 Ford Ranger has been stolen during an aggravated burglary using a spare key and garage remote found in the household’s second vehicle parked…
-
Men gang-robbed near stations
Two men have been robbed in daylight by groups of youths in central Dandenong and Springvale. Walking home from work, a 35-year-old man was approached…
-
Armed robber ‘violent and impulsive’
A serial “violent” offender has been jailed for up to four-and-a-half years over a brutal bashing and robbery at gunpoint of a driver in Noble…