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CARDINIA: Workshops on how to fight bushfires

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Cardinia Shire Council is hosting practical workshops to support residents with bushfire preparedness. Workshops are aimed at properties with a bushfire risk between 1 and 10 hectares and will focus on landscape cool burning techniques. Participants will develop a greater understanding of: • Safety and Legal requirements when undertaking a planned burn.• Common planned burning…

Council News

BANYULE: $4.4m library works at Rosanna

Banyule Councillors were due on Monday night (Apr. 14) to consider a $4.4 million contract for library works at Rosanna. The fit-out includes all loose furniture, audio visual equipment and specialised library equipment such as a book sorting machine, smart chute returns bin and self-check machines. The Tender Evaluation Panel recommended awarding the contract to…

Sport

SPORT: Gritty win over Blues

A stunning eight-goal performance from Patrick Fitzgerald has led Laurimar to their first win of the 2025 Heidelberg Golf Club Division 3 season, holding off a late comeback to beat Epping by 11 points at Epping Recreation Reserve. The Power led by 36 points during the latter stages of the third term, before Epping piled…

Police News

CASEY: 19-y-o quizzed after Endeavour Hills death

Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Endeavour Hills on Sunday (Apr. 13). Emergency services were called to reports of a man located deceased inside a property on Mossgiel Park Drive about 6.30am. Police discovered the 21-year-old Endeavour Hills man with injuries consistent with a stabbing. A 19-year-old…

Police News

MURRINDINDI: 53-year-old Buxton mystery

Alexandra Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for public assistance to help solve a 53-year-old mystery. Investigators are attempting to identify an unknown man who was located deceased in Buxton on Christmas Day, 1971. A group of children were celebrating the holidays with a swim in the Steavenson River when they happened upon the man’s body…

Police News

EAST: Drugs seized at Box Hill

Major Drug Squad detectives have charged a man as part of an investigation into alleged drug trafficking. As part of their investigation, detectives identified a premises in Box Hill, in which they will allege drugs were being manufactured. Detectives from the Major Drug Squad and Clandestine Laboratory Squad acted swiftly to disrupt this activity and…

Police News

HUME: 26 arrests over car theft operation

Police have arrested 26 people and recovered eight stolen cars as part of an operation targeting car thieves and burglars in Broadmeadows and Craigieburn. Car theft is a significant priority for local police in Hume, with the area having the third most cars stolen across the state last year – a 44 per cent increase….

Police News

KINGSTON: 200-kmh, collision with Police car at Patterson Lakes

Police have arrested a woman after a vehicle was spotted allegedly reaching speeds of 200-kmh in Melbourne’s south on Sunday night (Apr. 13). Airwing spotted a white Holden Astra travelling at a fast rate of speed along Thompson Rd in Patterson Lakes about 10.15pm. Officers on the ground located the vehicle and attempted to intercept…

Police News

MOONEE VALLEY: Ascot Vale stabbing charge

Homicide Squad detectives have charged a man following the fatal stabbing of a man in Ascot Vale on Saturday morning (Apr. 12). A 29-year-old Ascot Vale man was arrested by police at the scene and conveyed to hospital to be treated for minor injuries, where he remained under police guard. He has been charged with…

Police News

STATEWIDE: $4.8m illicit tobacco siezed

Detectives from the VIPER Taskforce executed warrants at 12 tobacco stores across Melbourne last week as part of the ongoing investigation by Taskforce Lunar into organised crime syndicates linked to the illicit tobacco trade. Members of the taskforce were joined at the warrants from April 7-11 by representatives from the Australian Taxation Office and Therapeutic…