News
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Conquest of the comics
By Victoria Stone-Meadows Deza-Con III was back with a vengeance this year, with over 400 people attending the third incarnation of the region’s only pop…
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Disabled soccer onside
By Victoria Stone-Meadows A new soccer team, part of the Berwick City Club that caters for children and young people with a disability, is calling…
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Dozing teen hit by car
By Victoria Stone-Meadows A teen was hit by a car overnight in Narre Warren while lying in the middle of the Princes Highway. Emergency services…
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Free for all after assault
By Cam Lucadou-Wells Eight men and boys have clashed in a violent all-in brawl including body-slams and a launched shopping trolley at a Fountain Gate…
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Grandpa robbed to fuel addiction
By Cam Lucadou-Wells A Doveton drug addict who burgled and robbed his own 95-year-old grandfather at least 14 times has been chastised by a judge…
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ASIO lawsuit ‘unlikely to succeed’
By Cam Lucadou-Wells A reported lawsuit against spy-agency ASIO by two police officers stabbed by 18-year-old terrorist suspect Numan Haider at Endeavour Hills Police Station…
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War of words over CFA shake-up
By Victoria Stone-Meadows The State Opposition has trashed the government’s proposal to restructure the CFA and MFB despite a lack of policy detail available for…
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Survivor stresses early testing
By Cam Lucadou-Wells Berwick breast cancer survivor Debbie Brettoner recently hosted her third awareness luncheon since being diagnosed in 2014. The 5 May luncheon underlined…
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Man’s bad call on phone abuse
By Cam Lucadou-Wells A magistrate has pondered how to protect a Narre Warren woman from a man who texted a barrage of sexually-derogative abuse and…
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Sweet success for Jackson
A Berwick baker has risen to the top of Coles’ apprentice bakers in Australia. Jackson Taylor won the category as well as $1000 in the…
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Sour note to pay claims
By Cam Lucadou-Wells A Melbourne-wide fruit and florist business, with stores in Fountain Gate, Parkmore and Dandenong shopping centres, are set to face court over…
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Twelve months jail for assault
By Cam Lucadou-Wells A man has smashed the inside of a car windscreen with his fist, then punched his pregnant girlfriend in the face and…