LIBERAL politicians were out in force at Baxter train station last week spruiking a $450 million plan to electrify the…
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A BREAK in the weather could soon see “surplus” sand at Mt Martha Beach South being used to protect cliffs…
A GROUP of Mt Eliza residents wants Mornington Peninsula Shire to build a footpath along Baden Powell Drive between Humphries…
A ROSEBUD man who allegedly stabbed a female paramedic in front of her children on Friday 13 July, was charged…
TECHNICAL reports supporting applications to build a gas pipeline from Crib Point to Pakenham will be available at “community sessions”…
IT took less than one week for more than 1000 signatures to be added to a petition protesting at the…
BUILDERS, real estate agents and vendors are bracing themselves for the effects of Mornington Peninsula Shire’s proposed Housing Settlement Strategy…
A ROSEBUD resident says the shire’s supposedly tougher “party house” rules are not solving the problem because “no one answers…
FLINDERS MP Greg Hunt has signalled his opposition to power company AGL’s plans for a floating gas terminal at Crib…
THE owner of a new home being built on a Mornington clifftop has received council permission to clear vegetation down…
TOOTGAROOK Primary School parents and pupils are considering donning flippers and facemasks to negotiate “massive puddles” outside the school at…
STATE Planning Minister Richard Wynne is under fire for allowing Hillview Quarries to bypass Mornington Peninsula Shire and begin investigating…
MORE than 400 protesters have made it clear that they do not want a floating gas import terminal at Crib…
ABOUT 45 French Island residents met with Hastings MP Neale Burgess on Sunday 1 July to air their concerns about…
THE availability of a “resilient” water supply is seen as one of the key factors in the “protection” of green…
DROMANA Men’s Shed members are reeling after tools worth $12,000 were stolen from their Pier Street premises last week. Club…
Police have arrested a man following a robbery and an assault in Hastings earlier this morning. The incident took place…
FRENCH Island residents concerned about ambitious plans by Chinese investors to turn the rural hamlet into a “second Phillip Island”…
THE daubing of a red swastika on a gum tree outside Bittern train station has drawn condemnation from members of…
STATE Planning Minister Richard Wynne has agreed to studies being undertaken into the environmental and social impacts likely to be…
RESTRICTIONS on urban expansion and strong rural subdivision controls are at the heart of the draft Mornington Peninsula Green Wedge…
THE Mornington Peninsula was set to play a greater role in feeding Greater Melbourne’s growing population, a speaker at the…
POLITICAL parties have been called on to release their green wedge and planning policies to re-affirm the protection of green…
Police are currently on scene of a fatal car crash that has claimed the life of a man at Merricks…
A RALLY to “save Western Port from two threats” is being held next month at Hastings. Rally organisers say the…
RETIREMENT village proprietor Chas Jacobsen has bought the last parcel of the former Ansett estate in Mt Eliza for an…
BIG ticket items listed in this year’s Mornington Peninsula Shire budget include $4.9 million to rebuild the Somerville Recreation and…
ADVERTISEMENTS will soon be running for Mornington Peninsula Shire’s top job – chief executive officer. Held by Carl Cowie for…
POWER company AGL sees two agreements signed on Tuesday (12 June) as “advancing” its plans to moor a floating gas…
A “MASSIVE increase” in the theft of power tools on the southern peninsula is worrying police. They say thieves are…