Category Archives: Latest News

Big bucks for rail but timing means everything

May 14, 2018
A PLEDGE to spend $225 million to electrify rail tracks from Frankston to Baxter was the big ticket item for the region in last week’s federal budget. Federal Liberal Treasurer Scott Morrison confirm...

Shire on board for island ferry plan

May 14, 2018
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire Council will push the state government to fully finance a $80.3 million car ferry link between Stony Point and Cowes. Despite some local opposition, the council believes th...

Plea to end ‘cruel’ freeway clearing

May 14, 2018
WILDLIFE carers are apprehensive as they wait to hear from VicRoads about timelines for the second round of clearing vegetation from the Mornington Peninsula freeway. The initial clearing of establis...

Mayor backs port plans

May 8, 2018
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire mayor Cr Bryan Payne thinks the floating gas terminal proposal for Crib Point is “a good thing”. Cr Payne, speaking on ABC radio on Monday, said the area between Crib Point...

Overnight stay plan for historic church

May 7, 2018
WORK has started to restore a 150-year-old Anglican church at Moorooduc. The church, built in 1863, had been left unused for nearly two decades before builder Stephen Foster decided it was worth savi...

Shire mozzie traps to help ulcer research

May 7, 2018
A SIX-MONTH mosquito trapping program is being conducted by Mornington Peninsula Shire to help eradicate the Buruli ulcer. The measure is part the shire’s $20,000 in-kind support towards the federal ...

Drought proofing the peninsula

May 7, 2018
THE state and federal governments are being urged to upgrade old water recycling infrastructure in a move to “drought proof the Mornington Peninsula”. The plan by Mornington Peninsula Shire envisages...

Missing camper Sebastian Orefors located

May 1, 2018
Missing camper Sebastian Orefors has been located on a farming property in Toora North earlier this morning. Sebastian walked to the Devils Pinch Road homestead at 10.50am after being lost in the bus...

Pressure builds against gas plan

May 1, 2018
A GROUNDSWELL of opposition is building to AGL’s floating gas terminal at Crib Point and a hydrogen gas to liquid plant at Hastings. Information about the gas terminal and the hydrogen plant – led by...

Moves to reopen quarry

April 30, 2018
HILLVIEW Quarries has restarted its efforts to reopen the old Pioneer quarry in Boundary Road, Dromana. It has asked the state Planning Minister Richard Wynne to give the go ahead for an environmenta...