$60,000 fine for selling banned goods
An Altona North company fined $60,000 for supplying banned or unsafe goods, including monkey bikes and car jacks, has ceased operating.
Consumer Affairs Victoria launched...
Western Distributor: Victoria goes it alone
The Victorian government will spend $1.46 billion on the $5.5 billion Western Distributor freeway despite initial claims it would not be required to spend...
Finnish begin community sauna campaign
The Finnish Society of Melbourne has applied to Federal Gellibrand MP Tim Watts for a grant to help build a community sauna at Altona’s...
VU Centurions hike to fight poverty
A dedicated group of hikers linked with Victoria University has raised more than $30,000 for people living in poverty.
Nine four-person teams hiked more than...
Neighbours fight ‘cage of rubbish’
Altona North residents have launched an online petition in a bid to get VicRoads to remove a gated cage topped with barbed wire they...
West Welcome Wagon seeks warehouse
A group of volunteers helping asylum seekers in the community is raising funds to help manage a growing stream of donated goods.
West Welcome Wagon...
Well suited to descend for Foster kids
Williamstown’s Hamish Nye will be abseiling 27 storeys – in his suit – to raise money for children in foster care.
Mr Nye hopes to...
Breakdown becomes a positive turning point
Tears streamed down Simone Outteridge’s face as the frustration of losing her car keys reduced this once strong, confident and successful woman to hysterical...
Council wants trucks forced on to Distributor
A total ban on trucks must be introduced on inner-west residential streets once the Western Distributor is completed, a parliamentary inquiry into infrastructure projects...
Shadow play recreates forgotten Footscray
Creative kids have used shadow puppets to explore Footscray’s past during a school holiday activity with a difference.
Joyce Watts and Jo Skladzien, artists-in-residents in...
Newport residents oppose new childcare centre
Hobsons Bay council has received 37 objections to a proposed three-level childcare centre at Newport.
Wilcon Projects applied to build a 112-place centre at 463-465...
Firm fined $40k after worker suffers burns
A Laverton North company has been fined $40,000 after an employee suffered burns to his face, neck and torso at the workplace.
BPL Melbourne Pty...
Push to save Williamstown Hospital ED
The Greens are calling on the state government to chip in $5million to keep Williamstown Hospital’s emergency department open.
As reported by Star Weekly, Labor...
Private hospital redevelopment welcomed
The $20-million redevelopment of the west’s only private hospital has been unveiled.
Health Minister Jill Hennessy last week officially opened the new Western Private Hospital’s...
$17 million boost for Footscray Hospital
A $17 million funding boost will help reopen some of the dozens of beds closed because of Footscray Hospital’s dilapidated state.
But critics argue the...
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Glory appoint O’Dell
New Yarraville Glory coach Andy O’Dell was itching to get back into coaching.
O’Dell was set to coach Whittlesea United this year and had gone...
