News
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Heat kills wildlife
By BRIDGET COOK DISTRESSED, dehydrated and dead wildlife are being found around Casey as they struggle to beat the heat. Doveton resident Krystof Karon contacted…
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Diamond Dewits say ‘I do’
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD AT THE age of 90, it wasn’t easy for Albert Dewit to get on one knee and propose again to his wife…
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Dolly’s jolly good reads
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD WHILE Dolly Parton may have wowed the crowd at Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday night, her influence has been felt even more…
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Check it out
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD WHEN Carol Bathie began working at Hampton Park Library a decade ago she couldn’t have predicted the progress the institution would make.…
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Dodgy contractors abound
By BRIDGET COOK CONSUMER Affairs Victoria has warned Casey residents to be cautious of dodgy contractors, after the area recorded one of the highest number…
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Music fulfils mum’s dying request
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD DAVID Pal’s mother had suffered from a stroke and didn’t have long to live when she gave her son a request 12…
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Top ice finish
By CASEY NEILL IMAGINE driving a billy cart. Down a water slide. At 130 kilometres an hour. This is how Hallam-raised Winter Olympian Heath Spence…
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Man killed in truck roll-over
A MAN is dead after his truck rolled down a hill in Narre Warren this morning. The rig was travelling east on Boundary Road when…
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Perfect score — in six years
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD FOUNTAIN Gate Secondary College only started offering VCE subjects in 2009 — new players in an established educational landscape. SIX years later…
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Tragedy lifeguard call
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD AN ANGUISHED appeal for summer lifeguards at Lysterfield Lake has reverberated through the community after a five-year-old boy drowned at the site…
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Chemical response matures
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD EMERGENCY CFA crews rushed to a Hallam winemaking warehouse on Monday morning to secure a hazardous chemicals leak. More than six brigades…
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Treasures on show
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD THE much-anticipated Casey Cultural Precinct could be an outpost for national treasures from the National Art Gallery and the National Museum. On…