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Melbourne Crime Investigation Unit detectives are continuing to appeal for information following a stabbing in Melbourne’s CBD. It is understood a group of five male youths, armed with weapons, were involved in an altercation with another boy about 3.45pm on October 21 last year. The boy was stabbed during the incident and was taken to
Hobsons Bay Crime Investigation Unit detectives seized more than two tonnes of illicit tobacco and cigarettes during a search warrant in Altona North. Police were called to reports of a burglary at a business on Borrack Square about 4am on Thursday, January 18. It is understood offenders forced entry into a warehouse and stole tobacco
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal crash that claimed the lives of two people in Broadmeadows this morning. Officers first received reports of a vehicle driving at excessive speed in the area prior to the collision. No pursuit was initiated, and no attempts were made to intercept. A short time later, the vehicle
Police have arrested a man over a spate of alleged burglaries at schools in the Cardinia area over the past month. Pakenham Police were patrolling the Officer area on Friday January 19, when they arrested a man during an alleged burglary at a primary school on Bridge Rd, about 4am. Further inquiries linked the man
Detectives from the Homicide Squad are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Kew. Emergency services were called to a residence on A’Beckett St where a man was found with injuries about 10am on January 23. The man died at the scene. A 56-year-old Kew man was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening
Police are investigating if two collisions involving cyclists in Cheltenham and Beaumaris on Tuesday morning (Jan. 23) are linked. Officers were called to Beach Rd about 5.20 and were told a 51-year-old man was riding along Beach Rd, near Charman Rd in Cheltenham, when he was involved in a collision with an unidentified vehicle. The
A new $2.25 million synthetic soccer pitch has been unveiled at the Harvest Home Rd Recreation Reserve in Epping. The FIFA-accredited pitch replaces one installed in 2008. That pitch no longer met the needs of tenant Whittlesea Ranges Football Club or the wider community, said a Whittlesea Council representative. Thomastown MLA Bronwyn Halfpenny joined with
Victorian Civil and Adminstrative Tribunal Member Alison Glynn has set a Nillumbik Shire Council decision, and allowed a planning permit decision favourable to Research land owner Rowan Murphy. Mr Murphy sought to re-subdivide a three-lot property at 1622 and 1630 Main Rd, totalling 3.07 hectares, and one dwelling on two of the lots. Ms Glynn
Box Hill Divisional Response Unit officers have charged a man who allegedly called an Uber ride-share vehicle to try and get away from police in Clayton. Police responded to reports of a collision at the intersection of Ferntree Gully and Blackburn Rds just before midnight on Tuesday, January 9. Officers confirmed that one of the
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal crash in North Fitzroy. Emergency services were called to St Georges Rd, near Watkins St, following reports of a crash and car on its side, just after 11.30pm on Wednesday, January 10. It is believed the car struck a pole and rolled before coming to rest. Sadly,
