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Council’s bin checking your waste

Wyndham council is inspecting green waste bins throughout the city to ensure residents are recycling correctly. The council has conducted about 160 random inspections of...

Williams Landing shopping centre to expand

Williams Landing shopping centre is to get a $6.5 million extension with construction expected to start in coming months. The expanded shopping centre, owned by Cedar...

New bike path maps for Wyndham cyclists

The maps, which can be downloaded from the council’s website, cover the municipality as a whole and as individual suburbs. Werribee cyclist Reece Smith, who...

Point Cook mum’s second Australia Day honor

A Point Cook woman who has devoted her life to helping the families of servicemen and women has been recognised in Australia Day honours. Margaret...

Australia Day fun at Werribee Park

A picnic at Werribee Park on Australia Day next Tuesday will have live music and loads of entertainment for the kids. Food trucks will roll...

Gas bottle fuelled fatal fire

A 21-year-old Truganina man has died as a result of a house fire at Hoppers Crossing last week. Five Country Fire Authority (CFA) crews were...

Not too late to prepare for Rotary fun run

Like most people, Maurita Rahn is keen to improve her fitness. The Tarneit resident has signed up to tackle the 10-kilometre course in next month’s...

Council knocks back abuse complaint

Wyndham council has quashed a complaint against former mayor Peter Maynard – but will not provide details of its investigation. Lewis Freeman-Harrison, an independent candidate...

Defiant Kim proves the doctors wrong

When Kim Jago was born, doctors told her parents she might not live to be a teenager. Forty-one years later, the Tarneit resident with...

Queues orderly at AquaPulse despite heat

Wyndham council’s leisure centre reached maximum capacity during last week’s extreme heat for the fourth time since reopening its doors seven months ago. Locals trying...

Witness plea after teenagers stabbed

Investigations are continuing into the stabbing of two teenagers at Werribee last Tuesday. Senior Constable Drew Corry said witnesses said a fight broke out in...

Wyndham thieves begin 2016 with 100 thefts from cars

Phones, wallets, satellite navigation systems and sunglasses were among items taken in a Wyndham crime spree, during which almost 100 cars were broken into...

Wyndham Harbour close to completion

Workers are putting the finishing touches to stage one of the $440 million Wyndham Harbour marina project. Project director Sonya Miller says the first stage...

Commuters flock to Tarneit station

Tarneit’s new train station is a hit with commuters, ranking it the second-busiest V/Line station in the state after Southern Cross. V/Line spokeswoman Ebony Jordan...

Muslims join Sikhs to help homeless youth

Members of Wyndham’s Muslim community are joining Sikhs to feed and protect the vulnerable. Sohni Dharti, a not-for-profit group based in Williams Landing, was on...

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Hayes retires from VFL

Nick Hayes leaves Werribee on a high having announced his Victorian Football League retirement. The most experienced player in the Tigers premiership team announced that...