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Residents across Melbourne and regional Victoria were jolted awake early Saturday after the state’s strongest earthquake in almost three years sent tremors across the region.Geoscience Australia recorded the magnitude 4.8 earthquake shortly after 2am on Saturday, October 3, at...

Wyndham City Council is looking to review the rapid expansion of data centres across the municipality, as Melbourne’s western suburbs emerge as one of Australia’s fastest-growing digital infrastructure regions.Councillors unanimously backed a proposal to examine the economic opportunities and...

A Coalition promise to raise the Princes Freeway speed limit to 110km/h between Laverton North and Colac has placed road safety and travel times at the centre of Victoria’s state election campaign.Opposition Leader Jess Wilson announced the proposal earlier...

Werribee South Beach is set for a major upgrade after Wyndham councillors unanimously approved a $2.99 million construction contract for the first stage of a long-planned transformation of the coastal precinct.Ace Landscape Services Pty Ltd was awarded the contract...

The new $14 million centre will improve access to local cancer care for communities in Melbourne’s west, reducing the need for patients to travel outside the region for treatment and saving some patients around 15 hours in travel time over the course of their care. The facility will be the only radiation therapy centre serving the nearly 70-kilometre corridor between Geelong and Footscray.

Hoppers Crossing’s Dina Prijantono is doing her community proud as she reaches a remarkable milestone of 175 blood  and plasma donations, saving up to 525 lives as a result. This incredible achievement will be reached at Lifeblood’s Werribee Donor Centre...

Despite Melbourne’s rapid growth, expanding suburbs and mounting climate pressures, new long-term data from EPA Victoria shows Port Phillip Bay is in better shape across several key water quality measures than it was four decades ago.The findings come from...

Investigators have executed eight search warrants across Wyndham Vale, Point Cook, Mambourin, Werribee and TarneitFour teenagers are among six people charged over the alleged kidnapping and murder of a Melbourne man whose body was found dumped in parkland in Tarneit, in what police...

The Victorian Early Childhood Regulatory Authority has suspended the service approval of Milestones Early Learning Werribee, operated by Affinity Education Group PTY LTD, for 90 days following serious compliance concerns.Regulatory officers identified a series of significant breaches, including several...

The numbers arrived with the clinical indifference of a coroner's report: 18,823 criminal incidents scarring Wyndham in 2025, a 6.0 per cent surge that tells only half the story of what's unravelling across Melbourne's sprawling western frontier.Behind those digits...