News
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Forum delves for family violence solution
By Cam Lucadou-Wells Family violence’s devastating reach in Casey is well documented. But where lies the solution? About 100 field experts, police officers and residents…
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History’s pages turn at Bunjil
By Cam Lucadou-Wells A living history of 1940s sci-fi, the punk movement, contemporary feminism zines and Australia’s underground presses are on show at Bunjil Place…
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Farm ‘trashed’ by Hampton Park tip
By Cam Lucadou-Wells The state’s pollution watchdog is investigating stray rubbish from Hampton Park’s landfill that has blown onto a neighbouring farm. The farm’s owner…
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Volunteers give hall a clean bill of health
About 30 volunteers from a Muslim congregation have got their hands dirty by collecting litter around Timbarra Community Hall, Berwick – but that’s just the…
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Grower jailed for home cannabis crop
By Cam Lucadou-Wells A man has been jailed and faces possible deportation for growing a commercial quantity of cannabis at his Narre Warren South home.…
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Police set to blitz South-East roads
By Cam Lucadou-Wells Speeding and impaired drivers on Casey and Greater Dandenong roads will be targeted during a four-day police blitz over the Labour Day…
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Fraud rips off homeless
By Cam Lucadou-Wells A worker at a homelessness service has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $25,000 from her employer – effectively taking from “the poorest…
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Young mothers stick at school
By Cam Lucadou-Wells The comfy classroom at Narre Community Learning Centre looks like part home office and part baby nursery. Three days a week, the…
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Lewd caller targets dance studios
By Cam Lucadou-Wells A Narre Warren South man has pleaded guilty to making explicit phone calls to dance studios about girl students featured on their…
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Driver batters fast-food store
By Cam Lucadou-Wells A man who crashed his car at a Berwick fast-food outlet was unable to be drug tested due to an apparent police…
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Cancer relay inspires
By Cam Lucadou-Wells More than 2000 cancer survivors, carers and supporters have rallied together for the 24-hour Casey Relay for Life event on 2-3 March.…
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Bunjil’s roof takes flight
By Cam Lucadou-Wells Storms have literally raised the roof at Casey Council’s $125 million Bunjil Place building. Four months after the landmark building’s opening, about…