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Brimbank’s discarded syringes hotspot revealed

Sunshine is Brimbank’s main hotspot for discarded syringes, but there are no state government-funded needle disposal services. A welfare worker says demand for a needle...

100 days of learning for Mackellar Primary School students

Students at Delahey’s Mackellar Primary School marked 100 days since the start of the school year with a special celebration last week. The prep, grade...

Two Brimbank teenagers charged following St Albans carjacking

Two Brimbank teenagers have been charged following a traumatic carjacking in St Albans on Monday night. A family was left shaken when their BMW station...

New language no trouble to P-9s

Meet some of the state’s best young Indonesian speakers. These eight Point Cook P-9 College students (right) are all smiles after stellar performances at the...

New nursing home for the Vietnamese community set for Cairnlea

Victoria’s second Vietnamese nursing home will open at Cairnlea next year after what’s believed to be one of the biggest fundraising campaigns in Australia’s...

Two Brimbank bright sparks have joined forces to invent InternMe

Two Brimbank bright sparks have turned a frustrating experience into an exciting new venture that’s already attracting plenty of interest. Hillside’s Jayden Kafanelis and Dylan...

Thirteen arrested following St Albans carjacking

Thirteen teenagers, including some as young as 14, have been arrested in relation to a 'traumatic' carjacking overnight. A caller to 3AW today said a...

Flower power revival on for Albion resident

Sharon Cook says she’s happy … and she’s free. And if you were to spot her outside her Albion house, you’d have to agree. The 53-year-old...

Man jailed for holding up former workmate at Keilor Hotel

A man has been jailed for five years for an armed hold-up of the Keilor Hotel, two years after he was the victim of...

Sunshine trader turns on old mechanic skills

Andy’s Servo is something of a rarity in Australia. Andrew Michael opened his independent service station and adjoining body shop in 1971, not long after...

Ice-related offences almost doubled in Brimbank

Offences involving the drug methamphetamine have almost doubled in Brimbank. New figures from a Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) research paper show that the number of...

Students don PJ’s to celebrate National Pyjama Day

Sara, Zaffie and Sabahat rolled out of bed and straight into school on Friday. Along with their peers, the year 12 Taylors Lakes Secondary College...

Police vigilante warning for Derrimut residents

Brimbank police have urged Derrimut residents not to become “vigilantes” after a “frightening” early-morning home invasion on June 30. Derrimut and Deer Park Neighbourhood House...

Sunshine pokie punters rack up gambling losses

Sunshine pokie punters are losing more than three times as much as their counterparts in the more affluent eastern suburbs, a new study reveals. Findings...

St Albans armed robber avoids jail due to impairment

A hard-up St Albans man has been spared jail over two armed robberies. Gollade Abdi Gaite pleaded guilty in the County Court earlier this year...

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Lions lose thriller

It wasn’t the start to 2025 that Taylors Lakes was hoping for as it went down in a thriller to Oakleigh in the Victorian...