Support quality local journalism

Make a contribution
WYNDHAM
Home News Page 871

News

Point Cook’s operation safe plate

Driving down number plate theft is as simple as changing a few screws. Police and volunteers will be on hand to fit car number plates...

Community calls for Dohertys Road fix

Wyndham businesses have renewed calls to fix Dohertys Road to improve safety and attract new business to the area. The road, which cuts through industrial...

Equipment stolen from Wyndham SES

Wyndham State Emergency Service volunteers say they feel as if they have been “kicked in the guts” after their Werribee base was broken into...

Six in line to be our top citizen

A man who helps asylum seekers and the president of a theatre company are among six winners in Wyndham’s Community Volunteer Awards. The winners, named...

Tears for a first smile

  When Jagger Angelov smiled for the first time, his parents were moved to tears. The one-year-old from Werribee has a disorder of the corpus callosum,...

Hospital violence taskforce

  Werribee Mercy Hospital has welcomed a state government taskforce aimed at reducing attacks on hospital staff. The government has established an occupational violence taskforce, headed...

Police road sting

  More than 160 unregistered, unlicensed and disqualified drivers were caught in a single-day police sting across Wyndham and Brimbank last week. Westgate road policing adviser...

Grow West celebrates

  The Grow West team will put their green thumbs to work later this month to give a farm some much-needed tender loving care –...

In the swim

Could this be swimming’s next big thing? Hoppers Crossing teen Emmason McCurley has her sights set on making the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo – and...

Giving Mercy a hand

The Hoppers Club is giving a Wyndham health service a helping hand. Club chairman Frank Aidone presented Werribee Mercy Hospital’s palliative care unit with...

Second chance for uni hopefuls

  Like many of the students in her course, Kiandra Langdon is the first in her family to go to university. Ms Langdon, 20, is one...

Doug Mullett’s flying doctor experience

Most people never require the services of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. But for one Werribee man, the service’s staff have come to his...

Man arrested over Tarneit siege

A man in his 30s has been arrested after barricading himself and his two kids for more than three hours in a Tarneit property...

CEO Kerry Thompson resigns

Wyndham council chief executive officer Kerry Thompson has resigned. Mayor Peter Maynard announced Ms Thompson’s resignation on Monday afternoon, saying she was leaving the council...

Casey wows at Wyndham Rising Star contest

The Wyndham Rising Star competition is up and running, and Sean A’Hearn was there to see and hear three singer battle it out in...

Latest

Finalists announced for WorkSafe awards

Out of almost 150 nominations, 21 finalists have been shortlisted across six award categories for the 35th annual WorkSafe Awards, which celebrate initiatives in...