Category Archives: Latest News

Call for help to find missing man Anthony Papettas

May 9, 2019
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate missing Frankston man Anthony John Papettas. The 44-year-old was last seen in Hastings Street Frankston about 4pm on 2 April. Police and fami...

Man charged following Hastings death

May 8, 2019
Homicide Squad detectives have charged a man following the death of a man in Hastings on Monday night. Emergency services were called to an address on Salmon Street about 7.45pm on 5 May after report...

Five times over in Frankston

May 7, 2019
Carrum Downs police conducted a random breath test as part of Operation Probe this morning. A 41-year-old driver was pulled over at an RBT site on Frankston-Dandenong Road about 11.30am. The Cranbour...

Bus services get an F (for fail)

May 6, 2019
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has run into the equivalent of a brick wall in its efforts to improve bus services on the peninsula. Despite seven months of lobbying the state government and working close...

Staged events to grab voters’ attention

May 6, 2019
A COMMUNITY group and several political pressure groups are out to grab the spotlight to influence voting in the Flinders electorate before the Saturday 18 May federal election. While lines outside p...

Restaurant to fight on over wastewater

May 6, 2019
A RED Hill restaurateur is reconciled to spending as much as $200,000 fighting a Mornington Peninsula Shire Council knock-back of an application for a permit to alter a septic tank system. Red Gum BB...

Police investigate Hastings death

May 6, 2019
Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Hastings last night (5 May). Emergency services were called to an address on Salmon Street about 7.45pm...

Water Police investigate diving death

May 5, 2019
Marine Investigation Unit detectives are investigating following the death of a diver in the bay earlier this afternoon. The incident happened when a diver, a man aged in his 20s, was struck by a spe...

Unlawfully wedded strife

May 5, 2019
A wedding guest in Mornington is far from being best man after allegedly getting behind the wheel while drunk and damaging the venue. Police were called to a golf club on Tallis Drive about 10pm last...

Investigation continues into Mornington assault

May 4, 2019
Police are currently speaking to a man in relation to an assault in Mornington this morning. A 28-year-old Lyndhurst man presented himself to a police station this afternoon. Mornington Crime Investi...