New youth jobs hub opens in Sunshine
Brimbank has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the state, at 17.3 per cent...
Design awards all sewn up
Entries are flying in thick and fast for this year’s Fashion Awards Australia, with budding designers and design students putting their best foot forward...
Neighbours shocked after body found in Deer Park
Police believe a Deer Park man whose body was found inside his home on Monday may have been shot dead a week ago.
Detective Inspector...
Sunshine toxic scare: “significant, intrusive” testing to come
The company ordered to test for groundwater contamination at its former Sunshine site says “significant...
The end for Albion’s Stuart McKay house
The last surviving Albion house connected to the family of pioneering Sunshine industrialist HV McKay is...
Crim confesses to historic crimes
A notorious career criminal last week confessed in the Supreme Court to a series of unsolved armed robberies across Melbourne in the late 1980s...
Short Film Fest Returns
The Sunshine Short Film Festival is open for another year, with organisers this year asking entrants to showcase ‘Brilliant Sunshine’.
The festival has grown each...
Morrissey new Brimbank CEO
Helen Morrissey has been named acting chief executive of Brimbank council following the resignation of Paul Younis earlier this month.
Ms Morrissey (pictured) – who...
Muso battle here again
Aspiring young Brimbank musicians will strut their stuff when the annual Freeza Push Start battle of the bands heats get rolling again next month.
This...
Housing tick for council offices
The future of the former Sunshine municipal offices site is a step closer to being resolved, after Brimbank council decided to rezone the land...
Ballarat line punctuality off the rails
Train punctuality on V/Line’s Ballarat line has nosedived, with May’s figures one of the worst on record.
Just 79.8 per cent of services arrived on...
Brimbank council at tipping point over fees
Brimbank council hasn’t received a cent to remediate its old tips, despite pouring more than $20.5...
Keilor traders band together amid crime fears
A string of high profile break-ins and a downturn in trade during a five-month streetscaping upgrade...
First of five Brimbank school sites sells for $11.8 million
The first of five Brimbank school sites the state government has deemed “surplus” to its needs has been sold.
The former Deer Park Primary School...
Holden donation a driving force
Holden might be winding down its Australian manufacturing arm, but it hasn’t stopped supporting aspiring mechanics wanting to enter the industry in Melbourne’s west.
This...
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Overnewton’s 175 grand years
The iconic Overnewton Castle is celebrating 175 years with a host of events for the community to enjoy.
This heritage listed Scottish baronial homestead, is...
