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A day on the green

Hobsons Bay Community Fund (HBCF) is holding its ninth annual charity golf day to raise funds to benefit the Hobsons Bay community. HBCF chair Adrian...

ParKanDo win volunteering award

ParKanDo, a grassroots support group for people impacted by Parkinson's, has won the grassroots volunteering award in the state governments 2023 Volunteering Awards. On Tuesday,...

Call to clean up Williamstown

One Hobsons Bay resident has described the Williamstown commercial business district as a “very sad area,” complete with empty shops and a overflow of...

Greg going for Good Friday record

One of Victoria’s top auctioneers will be charged with extracting as big a price as possible when he presides over the Good Friday Appeal...

Local news and local jobs at risk following meta announcement

Australia’s largest organisation of newspaper publishers has attacked the announcement by Meta that it will no longer negotiate deals with publishers once current agreements...

Police seize more than 400 cannabis plants in Brooklyn

Police seized 430 cannabis plants in Brooklyn on Tuesday, March 5. Police executed a search warrant in Industry Park Drive about 9.30am as part of...

Arrests following assault at Altona North Pier

Police have arrested three girls and a woman following an alleged affray at Altona North. Detectives have been told a 14-year-old girl and her friends...

Swapping and selling sustainably

The Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre will soon host a market designed for local artists to buy, swap and sell materials. The Creatives Treading...

Diana needs your help

A local support worker and mentor needs the community's help to battle her journey through cancer and recovery. A Go Fund Me has been set...

West welcomes writers workshops

Writers based in the west now have the support of a new non-profit organisation which will be hosting a monthly series of specialised writing...

Renter pain in Maribyrnong

Maribyrnong and Hobsons Bay renters are experiencing some of the worst rental pain in Victoria, according to new data from Suburbtrends. Suburbtrends releases a monthly...

Climate protest causes traffic jam on Melbourne bridge

Climate protesters are using a hire truck to block three lanes of a major Melbourne bridge, causing traffic chaos during peak hour. Extinction Rebellion members...

Farewell to a fruitful career

Fifty-five years ago Italian migrant Antonio Napoli opened his fruit shop on Ferguson Street, Williamstown beginning the long legacy of trading. Years later, in 1994...

Fresh finds at the farmers market

The Maribyrnong community can continue to enjoy the Yarraville farmers and craft market with a new string of traders. Market organiser Eileen Fiederling O’Callaghan said...

Infants and parents to benefit from multilingual resources

Being a first time parent can be difficult enough without the resources, advice and support services needed to navigate life with a newborn, being...

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Fauonuku makes Aussie squad

If you’re going to interrupt a school assembly then you better have a good reason and rising netball star Amalani Fauonuku had exactly that. The...