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Perth Avenue: Mixed signals for traffic lights
Traffic lights are slated for Ballarat Road and Hulett Street in Albion, despite a long-running campaign for a safer crossing at the arterial’s intersection with…
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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 for…
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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…
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Sunshine toxic scare: “significant, intrusive” testing to come
The company ordered to test for groundwater contamination at its former Sunshine site says “significant and intrusive investigations” will need to be undertaken to assess…
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The end for Albion’s Stuart McKay house
The last surviving Albion house connected to the family of pioneering Sunshine industrialist HV McKay is facing a wrecking ball. Brimbank council has approved a…
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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 and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 for…
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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…
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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 has prompted Keilor shopkeepers to band together and form…
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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 million into a state government fund designed for that…
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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…
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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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