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Lucy CallanderUrban affairs reporter

Lucy Callander is an urban affairs reporter for Leader Community News and the Herald Sun.

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Lucy Callander

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South East

A person has been injured after a house toppled over during an apparent landslide in regional Victoria. Emergency services were called to a property on View Point Rd in McCrae on the Mornington Peninsula - about 59km south of Melbourne - about 8.45am Tuesday after a landslide caused the building to topple over. Picture: ABC

Landslide bill to reach at least $8m

The cost of a devastating landslide at McCrae is expected to reach at least $8m and Mornington Peninsula ratepayers will be footing the bill.

Melbourne City

Failed tennis prodigy Dino Dattoli is accused over a violent alleged home invasion in Preston in July 2022

Failed tennis prodigy on serious drug charges

A Melbourne man who went toe to toe against Roger Federer during a brief tennis career is now facing a string of drug trafficking charges.

South East

Chayse Ryan-Tauroa is raising money to buy this angus beef cow she met while visiting cows near her Carrum Downs home in a bid to beat depression Picture supplied

Schoolgirl launches bid to save blues-busting bovine

He’s known only as 3075 and is destined for dinner. But to a teenage girl this “beautiful soul” is a life saver. Now she wants to return the favour.

North

Single mum forced to sell up after dodgy plumber ruins roof

A Melbourne mum lost her life savings and was forced to sell her house after being preyed on by a dodgy plumber.

South East

Mornington Peninsula rubbish bins. Picture: Mornington Peninsula Shire

‘Drug deals, identity theft’: Reason for missing rubbish revealed

When household rubbish started disappearing from Mornington Peninsula bins suspicious locals immediately thought the worst. Here’s what’s really going on.

South East

Donut King operator hit with big fine after child work breaches

The owner of two fast-food franchise stores, including one at Rosebud Plaza, was “homless” when he broke rules designed to protect “most vulnerable workers”.

South East

Police tape at the entrance to Shearer Park in Lansvale where 3 people tragically drowned on Saturday.Photo: Tom Parrish

Body found in waters off Seaford

Police are investigating a potential crime scene near a popular Frankston eatery after a body was discovered in waters off Seaford early on Friday.

South East

Sorrento crash: Footage captures car hurtling through Hughes and Melbourne road roundabout Picture: supplied

‘How did they walk away’ Spectacular crash stuns Sorrento

Footage capturing the moment an out-of-control car hurtles over a Mornington Peninsula roundabout, narrowly missing another vehicle, has left locals gobsmacked.

South East

Nepean Highway, Frankston: Frankston council's boulevard project would revitalise the highway by providing more space for dining, retail pedestrians and bikes. Picture: supplied/Frankston Council

How Frankston’s boulevard dream can become a reality

Bid to turn Frankston’s Nepean Highway from a “rundown ghetto” into a grand tree-lined boulevard where locals and tourists can lunch and linger during the day and party after dark.

South East

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - March 3, 2025: Construction works along a section of beach near Frankston. Community compliaiints have have prompted concern from state MP and an investigation by the local council.Picture: NewsWire / David Geraghty

Businessman vows to sell up after Frankston beach works controversy

The owner of a beachfront mansion who admitted to building an illegal seawall on a Frankston South beach in front of his $9.25m home has vowed to tear down the works and move out.

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