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Ranjit Singh, a candidate for the City of Melton council election, is concerned by the state of local roads.

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.

  • Angus Delaney and Nathanael Scott

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Wyndham City Council.

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.

  • Cara Waters and Rachael Dexter
U-2 plane soon after landing with its braking parachute billowing behind.

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.

  • Staff Writers
The man was fined close to $40,000.

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.

  • Cameron Houston
A Mustang was used to fly the lifesaving drug from Laverton R.A.A.F. base to Hay.

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.

  • Staff Writers
A damaged truck at the scene of the crash.

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.

  • Ashleigh McMillan
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Bound for landfill ... plastic bags and fabric that were to be recycled at SKM Group’s Laverton facility, but where receivers and managers have been appointed.

$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.

  • Jewel Topsfield
Rescue horses on the move at Anne Young’s Horse Shepherd Equine Sanctuary in Gordon, Victoria.

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.

  • Candida Baker
The Alex Fraser Group's recycling plants crush glass into sand used to make asphalt.

'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.

  • Debbie Cuthbertson
A wall of recycling material, photographed inside one of SKM's western Melbourne facilities the day before it was shut down by the EPA.

'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.

  • Adam Carey and Benjamin Preiss

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