Community News

Glen Huntly Rd has reopened, boom gate-free. The level crossings were some of the most dangerous and congested in Melbourne.Boom gates were down for almost 60 per cent of the morning peak as up to 40 trains on the busy Frankston line ran through the crossings.The tram square – where trams, trains, and vehicles all

SOUTH-EAST: Route 800, never on Sundays The Route 800 bus service between Chadstone and Dandenong is the busiest bus route in Melbourne without seven- day service.Local residents say there has not been a timetable change for more than 30 years.“On Saturday afternoons it runs only every two hours with the last bus leaving Chadstone before

Frankston Council says it awaits “a thorough understanding of the rationale behind the Victorian Government’s introduction of the interim planning controls, announced by Minister [Sonya] Kilkenny over part of the Frankston Metropolitan Activity Centre Structure Plan area”.The Council says it wants to know what implications they may have for the future authorisation of the FMAC

More local senior peoplewill have a place to call home thanks to new social and affordable housing in the Bayside region.Colin Brooks, State Minister for Housing, and Julie Collins, Federal Minister for Housing, last week officially welcomed tenants to the $76.7 million redevelopment which will deliver 152 homes for people aged over 55 in East

The Sunbury Rail Line Upgrade is now complete – another major step towards the opening of the Metro Tunnel in 2025.The $1.8 billion Sunbury Line Upgrade has been delivered six months early, with new tracks now connecting the line to the Metro Tunnel’s western entrance in Kensington.The tunnel’s eastern entrance in South Yarra was connected

A new First Peoples’ Health and Wellbeing Clinic in Thomastown has opened, which includes expanded services and facilities thanks to more than $763,000 funding.The old clinic was at full capacity and funding through the first round of the Metropolitan Health Infrastructure Fund enabled the clinic to move from their smaller and outdated facility to a

Better men’s health and youth support services across the inner north is the hope with redevelopment works on the Reservoir Men’s Shed and Youthzone nearing completion.Funded through the Metropolitan Health Infrastructure Fund, the $1 million project is replacing the current Men’s Shed/Youth zone with a new purpose-built facility that accommodates the Men’s Shed, Aboriginal health,

A Shock Squad has been formed to enhance the Automated External Defibrillator Network across Mansfield Shire.The newly formed squad comprises representatives from Mansfield Shire Council, Mansfield and District Community Bank, Mansfield District Hospital and Ambulance Victoria (Mansfield Branch).Collectively they are advocating to create a wider network of devices that are accessible 24/7 to the community.An

Piling rigs have arrived on site to lay concrete foundations for the next stage of construction, with the Coolstore Rd crossing in Croydon, Dublin Rd crossing in Ringwood East, and Bedford Rd crossing in Ringwood to be a thing of the past by 2025.Croydon’s new transport hub will see new road connections and a new

The State Government will establish a Board of Inquiry into Historical Child Sexual Abuse at Beaumaris Primary School in the 1960s and 1970s, and abuse by the same employees at other government schools.Following the Commonwealth Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, victim-survivors of child sexual abuse in government schools – particularly at