At first, Chantal George thought what there had been a loud crash out in the Eumemmerring street in the wet, early hours of Monday 3 June. Still awake at 1.30am, she ran to investigate – and then noticed her front lounge room. Poking through its shattered front windows was the nose of a white Volkswagen […]

Doveton’s spectacular new community hub opened to fanfare and sunshine at a celebration on Saturday 25 May. The $5.27 million Autumn Place Community Hub includes a redeveloped four-year-olds kindergarten with outdoor play spaces, two maternal and child health consulting rooms and a multi-purpose room, kitchen and courtyard. It also includes an improved outdoors park, playground […]

There is an absolute superstar of basketball currently plying her trade for the Dandenong Rangers in the NBL1 competition and it’s time to take note. Bec Cole has long been a guard with speed to burn and a real passion for the game. This season for the Rangers, Cole has taken her game to a […]

A rescued Welsh pony has got a ‘second life’ as a popular figure at Riding Develops Abilities (RDA) Doveton. Late last year, Olivia had been saved from a neglectful home by RSPCA and passed on for months of rehabilitation with Project Hope. The charity then offered her to the RDA, where she is the horse […]

Police have released a facial composite of a man believed to have been involved in a road-rage stabbing in Hallam on 10 April. A white Daihatsu Delta truck reportedly rammed a blue Mitsubishi Pajero on Belgrave-Hallam Road about 2.25pm on Wednesday 10 April. Both drivers got out and brawled near the Monash Freeway off-ramp, police […]

Police have released images of three men as part of an investigation into an alleged armed robbery and assault in Hallam. Two 18-year-old men from Hampton Park and a 19-year-old man from Berwick were hospitalised after being attacked by three unknown males at Hallam railway station about 1.30am on Saturday 9 March. The attackers initially […]