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St Albans celebrates Melbourne’s west

St Albans was a hive of colour last weekend as the annual Be Bold Festival returned to town. The Bowery Theatre and the St Albans...

Young writers workshop

Award-winning author Alice Pung is returning to the west where she grew up to lead an autobiographical writing workshop. Young writers and creatives from the...

Hitting pancaretic cancer for six

The local cricket community is coming out in force to raise funds and awareness of pancreatic cancer. The inaugural PanKind Power Play T20 event...

Community Calendar

Want your event listed? Community Calendar is made available free of charge to not-for-profit organisations to keep the public informed of special events and...

Taranto’s road to recovery

One of the hallmarks of the rise of women’s sport over the last decade, is the sense that it is different. Rather than just...

Proposal to fill the buses

Western Metropolitan MP David Ettershank is urging the state government to overhaul Melbourne’s struggling public transport system with a focus on buses. Arguing that the...

A patch of grassland paradise

In the heart of Sunbury sits a grassland considered to be the best left in Melbourne, as Oscar Parry discovered. What might first appear as...

Five teens arrested following burglaries and motor theft

Brimbank police arrested five male teenagers following a string of alleged burglaries and theft of motor vehicles in Melbourne’s north-west in the past month. It...

Police officer recognised

Senior Sergeant Stephen Phillips wasn’t sure it was the right move for him when it was mentioned that he join Victoria Police’s Family Violence...

Get creative with ‘Lady Mohawk’

Local legend Sally 'Lady Mohawk' Walshe is heading to Brimbank to develop and inspire budding artists of any skill or experience level with three...

Drawing on local support

The annual Pencils Project school stationery drive is fast approaching, and organisers are drawing on community support. A grassroots not-for-profit based in Melbourne’s north west,...

Feeding families every Friday

Struggling families in Sunshine are being offered free meals by the local Salvation Army corps, to ensure no one goes hungry. Every Friday from 3pm...

Lost in the mail

In a heavily digitised world, many Brimbank residents are scratching their heads and asking the same question: where have all the post boxes gone? In...

Mansion to host carols

Wyndham Carols by Candlelight is returning to the great lawn of Werribee Mansion on Saturday, December 7, in what is poised to be a...

Firm fined for illegal waste

The Environmental Protection Authority has fined a company nearly $40,000 for transporting hazardous waste without permission to a number of sites across Melbourne, including...

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Reforms underway for non-emergency patient transport

A range of reforms and improvements to Victoria’s non-emergency patient transport (NEPT) sector is set to be introduced by the state government. It follows an...