Residents at odds over more parking at Aircraft
Hobsons Bay and Wyndham residents are at odds over whether there should be more commuter parking at Aircraft train station in Laverton.
Point Cook resident...
Transurban defends holding back report
The proponent of a $5.5 billion freeway tunnel running under Yarraville has defended a decision not to release a report into community feedback on...
End of line for new Footscray park
A community campaign for a new park in Footscray has failed after the state government put a $5.5 million price tag on the land.
Maribyrnong...
Family fights planter box removal
A Yarraville family given until Friday to remove planter boxes in front of their home is petitioning Maribyrnong council to change its nature strip...
Give and take in Williamstown
Williamstown women Ali Campbell and Virginia Millard have established Australia’s first ‘Give.Take.Stand’ modelled on a German initiative called the Give Box.
The stand, in the...
VCAT allows five storeys at 501 site
A developer has won a battle against Maribyrnong council’s decision to cap a 198-unit project in Footscray at four storeys and force the inclusion...
Block party at Laverton and everyone’s invited
Laverton is holding a Block Party and the whole neighbourhood is invited.
The street party – in Woods and Lohse streets – caps off two...
Train doors separate child from family at Newport
A seven-year-old boy was left chasing a moving train at Newport Station while his terrified parents and other passengers in the carriage tried to...
Funds received for JK Grant Reserve pavilion
The state government has contributed $100,000 towards a new pavilion that will enable greater female participation in sports at Altona’s JK Grant Reserve.
The project...
New $1m play space for Footscray Park
Plans are almost complete for a new $1 million playground to be built on the banks of the Maribyrnong River.
Draft concept plans show the...
West tops state for jobless youth
Ten suburbs across Maribyrnong and Hobsons Bay have the highest youth unemployment in the state, topping even the number of jobless in the Northern...
Ghost tours of Altona’s haunted homestead
Sarah Langhorne died in 1871, but many people claim to have seen her ghostly apparition peering from a window of Altona Homestead.
The homestead, built...
Website honours Footscray Anzacs
Frank McCoubrie’s body may not have come back from France’s Bullecourt battlefields, but his memory lives on, thanks to Footscray Historical Society.
The society has...
Crime waves differ across postcodes
Crime statistics from the inner-west reveal a tale of two cities.
From the end of 2014 to last December 31, there was a 10.3 per...
Dick Murdoch late to his own funeral
Even those who knew Dick Murdoch well couldn’t have predicted he’d be late to his own funeral.
The strains of Frank Sinatra’s My Way filled...
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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...
