News
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Headstart on tolerance
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A MUSLIM community advocate says hostile reaction to a hijab-wearing social experiment in Dandenong this month could drive more young people to…
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Arrests in drug raid
POLICE arrested seven of the 15 people they found inside a Dandenong home during a drug raid this week. Greater Dandenong Tasking Unit executed a…
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Roof siege man charged
By CASEY NEILL A NOBLE Park man has today (Tuesday) been charged over a 30-hour siege in Moodemere Street over the weekend. He’ll face Melbourne…
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Bags walk, women wanted
POLICE have released images of two women wanted for stealing handbags and using stolen credit cards in Springvale and Dandenong. They allegedly took a victim’s…
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Driver stable after garbage truck tips
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A DRIVER in his fifties has been hospitalised after the garbage truck he was driving overturned in Keysborough this morning. The truck…
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$7.5m drug bust
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD MORE than $7.5 million worth of illicit drugs was seized and two men arrested after Casey CIU last week busted an extensive…
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Car blaze deemed suspicious
UPDATE: POLICE have identified the car and said it had broken down at the location. By CASEY NEILL FIRE has destroyed a car in Keysborough…
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Cuts take a grip
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS Service to close after slashing repeat crime… A DIVERSION program that has stopped nearly 90 per cent of its young male clients…
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Asian gateway rises
Journal photographer Gary Sissons captured the stunning new Springvale Asian Gateway as it lit up Buckingham Avenue last Tuesday night. The gateway will be officially…
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Roof siege comes to end
By JARROD POTTER A 30-HOUR siege in Noble Park involving a man throwing tiles and flaming objects at police was brought to an end Saturday…
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Vintage veterans march in style
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS IT’S not hard to imagine this amiable pair of veterans filling the cabin of their 1959 FC Holden with a string of…
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Gates open to Asia
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS SPRINGVALE’S newest towering landmark is set to be officially unveiled after years of delays and wrangling over cost and design brawls. The…