Laverton
Traffic jams and potholes: See how local election candidates plan to fix roads in your area
Use our interactive to find out what local election candidates in Greater Melbourne will do to fix roads in their areas if elected.
- by Angus Delaney and Nathanael Scott
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Wyndham City Council: What your candidates said
Voters in Wyndham will choose 11 people to represent them on council for the next four years. Here is what the candidates said about why they are running in the Victorian council elections and what they want to achieve.
- by Cara Waters and Rachael Dexter
From the Archives, 1962: Losing weight the U-2 way
60 years ago, American U-2 pilot, Eddie Dunagan, lost nearly 3kg in weight during a six-hour flight at 60,000 feet from Fiji to Laverton. Two U-2 jets were in Melbourne to take upper air samples south of Australia for fall-out and radioactivity tests.
- by Staff Writers
Police raid 14 properties, arrest two men over $7 million tobacco heist
Police believe their operation has smashed a major crime syndicate connected to the theft of more than $7 million worth of cigarettes.
- by Cameron Houston
From the Archives, 1951: From Melbourne to Hay, dramatic race to save boy
On May 3, 1951, doctors in Hay (N.S.W) decided that a ten-year-old tetanus sufferer would die if not immediately treated with the drug myanesin. With no supplies of the drug available, an urgent was sent call to Melbourne. Just two hours later, after a R.A.A.F. mercy flight, the drug was administered to the dangerously ill boy.
- by Staff Writers
Man charged with driver's death after 'horrific' Princes Freeway crash
A Mount Martha man has been charged over the death of a man in a major multi-vehicle collision near Laverton in April.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
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Waste
$150m waste-to-energy plant in Melbourne's west gets green light
A plant that aims to convert household rubbish into enough electricity to power up to 20,000 houses is expected to be operating in Laverton North within three years.
- by Jewel Topsfield
The horse rescuers: saving one four-legged friend at a time
Reports on retired racehorse cruelty reveal just how blinkered we’ve been when it comes to bad treatment of our equine friends. It’s time to rein it in.
- by Candida Baker
'Have a crack at it': Glass plant to recycle a billion bottles a year
Many people don't realise that they have driven over the bottles they put in their recycling bins.
- by Debbie Cuthbertson
'Disrespectful' SKM Recycling fined $16,000 for dangerous stockpiles
SKM Recycling has been fined $16,000 for having unsafe stockpiles of combustible waste, weeks after the environmental watchdog shut some of its warehouses down.
- by Adam Carey and Benjamin Preiss
Truck comes off second best after driver hits bridge with raised trailer
Motorists on the Princes Freeway watched in horror as a truck driver slammed his raised trailer into a bridge on the Princes Freeway.
- by Jordan Buchanan
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