Divisional van rammed in Langwarrin

Police are searching for the driver of a car that rammed a police divisional van in Langwarrin early this morning. Police were called to a report of a suspicious vehicle at a hotel car park on Cranbo...

Plans to end reign of feral cats

MORE than 96 per cent of French Island’s population supports a plan to eradicate feral cats – and that’s music to the ears of the federal government’s threatened species commissioner Gregory Andrews....

Rate changes a ‘fairer’ system – mayor

MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has dropped the municipal charge in favour of a waste service charge which it says will ensure a “fairer redistribution of the rate burden”. The mayor Cr Graham Pittock sai...

Capel Sound in line to get OK

THE contentious decision to change Rosebud West to Capel Sound will become reality if councillors back a staff recommendation. The call for change follows months of discussions, meetings, submissions...

Security tightened after robbery spree

THE court appearance last Tuesday (29 March) of a Pearcedale man with 54 counts of burglary and theft brings Pearcedale property owners Maree and David Brann closer to ending a frustrating chapter in...

Call for meeting over school gastro

PARENTS are demanding a meeting with Red Hill Consolidated School principal Leanne Marshall over the serious gastro outbreak among pupils and staff just before the Easter holidays. More than 100 pupi...

Fear as crime surges on home front

CHRISTMAS should be a time of giving, but for Nicole Hill and her family, this year the reverse was true. The Baxter family lost a car, boat and all their holiday gear in a brazen robbery at their Fr...

Search for missing 14-year-old boy

Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate missing Langwarrin boy Tekaha Waenga. The 14-year-old was last seen leaving his home address from Bryson Court in Langwarrin at about 10.30pm...

Man arrested for Dromana stabbing

Police have arrested a man after two people were allegedly stabbed in Dromana early this morning. Mornington Peninsula detectives arrested the 30-year-old Dromana man around 11.20am in a car in Frank...

Man shot in Mornington

Police are on scene and investigating following a shooting that left a man in hospital overnight in Mornington. The incident occurred about 12.30am in Cooba Court where, following a verbal argument, ...