26 Feb 10 | A MAN who was bashed to death outside a Yarraville pub may have been affected by alcohol, a bartender told the court on Wednesday.
24 Feb 10 | THE driver who gave a lift to three people later accused of bashing a man to death outside a Yarraville pub has told the Melbourne Magistrates Court he at first didn't realise the fracas was anything major.
24 Feb 10 | HOMICIDE detectives want to speak to a witness who saw a group of men fighting in Yarraville about the time Indian student Nitin Garg was murdered.
24 Feb 10 | A WEEK can be a long time in anyone's life, but for a Spotswood veteran it seemed like an eternity. On February 14, Tom Price was left in fear for his life when an intruder broke into his home late at night.
24 Feb 10 | DRIVE down Bunting Road, Brooklyn, and three things happen: dust clouds one's vision, eyes start to sting and then the coughing starts.
24 Feb 10 | A REVAMPED reference group to help tackle crimes against overseas students has the Indian community asking if it will actually achieve anything.
24 Feb 10 | MARIBYRNONG Council is not living up to community expectations, its annual community survey has revealed.
24 Feb 10 | MELIKA Sheikh-Eldin knows how difficult it is to warn the west's newest ethnic communities about the diabetes epidemic.
24 Feb 10 | AS director of Western Health's diabetes unit, Associate Professor Shane Hamblin sees the best and worst-case scenarios for patients with the condition.
24 Feb 10 | NOTHING could better describe the plight of Western Health professionals fighting type 2 diabetes than Professor Shane Hamblin's metaphor.
24 Feb 10 | PREMIER John Brumby wants a simpler calorie labelling system for food.
24 Feb 10 | OVER the past 25 years, a former tip in East Brunswick has been transformed into CERES - one of Australia's most visited environmental education centres.
24 Feb 10 | NEARLY half of the offenders in lock-up at Footscray police station use heroin, according to the latest report by the Australian Institute of Criminology.
24 Feb 10 | HIGHPOINT'S $185 million expansion will go ahead after Maribyrnong Council last week agreed to the shopping centre owner's plans.
24 Feb 10 | HOBSONS Bay mayor Bill Tehan has dumped the controversial mayoral car for a 1995 BMW purchased with his own money.
24 Feb 10 |
A CAREER spanning 43 years is coming to an end for one of Laverton's most respected police officers.
24 Feb 10 | AFTER five years of teaching in sub-standard, asbestos-ridden buildings in Deer Park, Western Autistic School principal Val Gill is excited to be moving to new digs in Laverton.
24 Feb 10 | STUDENTS at Bayside P-12 College in Altona North put their political hats on as they lobbied classmates to gain a seat on the students representative council.
24 Feb 10 | A Laverton North company is turning starfish and seaweed problems into environmental solutions.
24 Feb 10 | COMMUNITY feedback is being sought to develop Hobsons Bay's waste and litter management plan for the next four years.