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Epping wildlife on the mend

By Samantha Walker Sunny, a 15-month-old eastern grey kangaroo, is on the mend after suffering burns to his feet during a grassfire at Epping on...

Surprise Yarraville visit by Tarantino and friends

Quentin Tarantino fans received a shock treat on Monday night when the cult Hollywood director made a surprise visit to Yarraville to discuss his...

Job fears at Braybrook over Masters decision

  About 100 jobs in Braybrook are in jeopardy in the wake of a decision by Woolworths to offload or close its troubled Masters stores. Losses...

Swimmers rescued at Altona beach

Fifteen swimmers were rescued at Altona beach on Wednesday as wild winds whipped up waves and ripped beach tents from the sand, sending people...

Pageant on its way

Newport will host the Miss Gay and Miss Transsexual Australia pageant as part of this month’s Midsumma Festival. Deer Park nurse J.O. Rojas (pictured), the...

Xander rides for poverty

Williamstown’s Xander Schmitz is the youngest cyclist in next month’s three-day 25000spins Great Ocean Road Challenge, riding from Geelong to Warrnambool to raise money...

Braybrook: Plans afoot after playground destroyed by arsonists

Plans to build a new playground in Braybrook are being finalised after a suspected arson attack destroyed the existing playground at Lance Reichstein Reserve...

‘All gender toilet’ creates storm

  Victoria University’s first all-gender toilet has created a campus-wide storm as vocal critics and defenders clash over the installation. The conversion last week of a...

Altona: Kids fishing clinic does more than catch fish

The thing about fishing is that it does more than catch fish. That’s The Thing About Fishing (TTTAF), a not-for-profit organisation, is holding a kids...

Wedding hoons terrorise West Footscray residents

  Police are continuing to investigate claims that wedding party hoons “terrorised” West Footscray and Yarraville streets. Videos of the scene posted on Facebook show motorcycles...

Tangled webs rewoven

A dark tale of family relationships has earned a Footscray writer a prestigious short story prize. Barry Lee Thompson, above, wrote the first version of...

Student anger at VU error

  Victoria University has been forced to apologise to thousands of prospective students after mistakenly suggesting they had been offered early entry to courses due...

World champion whipcracker

Just months after Altona whipcracker Nathan ‘Whippy’ Griggs (above) won a Guinness world record for Australia, his American arch-rival snatched it back. So Mr Griggs...

Road deaths on the rise

  A quarter of road deaths recorded during the 22-day Victoria Police holiday road blitz happened in Hobsons Bay and Maribyrnong. Assistant Commissioner Doug Fryer said...

Projecting an old experience

The cinematic grandeur of the 1940s and ’50s returns to The Sun Theatre this week with the screening of Quentin Tarantino’s new bloody western,...

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Crusaders big back end

It is a much needed break for the Western Crusaders in the Gridiron Victoria senior division competitions. With the Melbourne Cup, the division 1 Vic...