Category Archives: Latest News

A mother’s love helps daughter find new life after ice addiction

March 15, 2016

THE past five years have been a challenge for Kerrie Knight and her family. As a mother of four teenagers she was always going to feel stressed, but these natural feelings paled into insignificance w...

Motorcyclist killed at Somerville

March 9, 2016

A fatal collision claimed the life of a motorcyclist in Somerville last night. Police have been told a Ford utility and a motorcycle collided head-on on Frankston-Flinders Road just after 8.30pm. The...

Fatal crash on Mornington Peninsula Freeway at McCrae

March 8, 2016

Emergency services are currently on scene after a car crashed and burst into flames in McCrae this afternoon. Police have been told a sedan was travelling south along the Mornington Peninsula Freeway...

Police put Skids off the road

March 8, 2016

POLICE believe three arrests on the Mornington Peninsula are integral to their success in putting the brakes on two groups of hoon drivers that regularly hold street drag meetings in Melbourne’s sout...

Rubbish pile grows, departments dither

March 7, 2016

RUBBISH dumped outside a public housing unit block in Mary St, Mornington, has been piling up since November attracting vermin and becoming a fire risk. A Mornington Peninsula Shire ranger reported t...

Grannies tackle MPs over refugees

March 7, 2016

A FEDERAL election is looming later this year and Flinders MP Greg Hunt is being pressured by a group of grandmothers upset over the continued detention of refugee children. The 25 members of Grandmo...

Backers say there’s sound basis for new name

March 7, 2016

THOSE backing a push to change the name Rosebud West to Capel Sound are gearing up for a council meeting next month when Mornington Peninsula shire will say yes or no to the proposal. A response in t...

Unregistered motorbike hits police car in Baxter

March 6, 2016

A motorcyclist was taken to hospital after colliding with a police car in Baxter this morning. Police have been told the motorcycle struck the rear passenger side of the unmarked police car on Franks...

Picket line to protest wages, conditions

March 1, 2016

POLICE visited a picket line at the United Petroleum site on Bayview Rd, Hastings, Tuesday, but took no action against protesters. Hastings Senior Sergeant Steve Burt said the company had contacted p...

Sparks fly from possum

March 1, 2016

A POSSUM has been blamed for starting the three hectare blaze that threatened parts of Somerville, Tuesday, and destroyed 300 timber sleepers on the Stony Point-Frankston train line. Hastings police ...