Category Archives: Latest News

Political points scoring over rates cap limits

March 29, 2016
POLITICAL barbs continue to be exchanged over the Labor state government’s rate capping policy, dubbed the Fair Go Rates system by the government, for councils across Victoria. Local Government Minis...

No flash finish in jet ski battle

March 29, 2016
GETTING jet skis banned from Port Phillip could be a long, hard grind for its current sole public advocate, Cr Hugh Fraser. His first hurdle will be to persuade a majority of his council colleagues t...

Search for missing Hastings man

March 25, 2016
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate missing Hastings man Jaroslaw Malinovski. Jaroslaw was last seen in the early hours of Wednesday morning when he attended Frankston Hospital,...

Spotlight on gang

March 21, 2016
A WILD brawl in Melbourne’s city centre has put the focus on a gang involved in brazen violent burglaries and car thefts in the south east suburbs over the past few months. Members of the Apex gang c...

Court win may signal shire’s new hard line

March 21, 2016
A $15,000 fine imposed on a bush block owner for illegally clearing land could be a warning to property owners that Mornington Peninsula Shire intends to take a tougher line with law breakers. The sh...

Driver dies in Red Hill South crash

March 19, 2016
Police and emergency services are currently on scene after a car crashed into a tree at Red Hill South this morning. Investigators have been told a utility was travelling west along Stanleys Road, be...

Growing discontent over clay quarry

March 16, 2016
A “GROWING sense of outrage” is being felt by residents opposed to escalating clay mining operations at the Bayport Industries quarry, Somerville. Tyabb Ratepayers’ Group members last week met Mornin...

Tree lopping ‘ruins country lane’

March 15, 2016
A MORNINGTON man is “appalled” by what he says is the savage and unnecessary lopping of small nature strip trees along Beleura Hill Rd, and the wholesale clearing of trees and shrubs in the street be...

Port or airport plea to Premier

March 15, 2016
THE possibility of a commercial airport at Hastings is still up in the air and many peninsula residents who contacted The News after this month’s previous article (‘Airport plan takes flight’, The Ne...