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Category: Business
- Call for Sunbury Show traders and volunteers
- Salesian College and Kangan Institute sign partner agreement
- Rethink over ‘town centre’ name for retail development
- Hume in Victoria’s top three for stolen cars
- Mayor defends visitor centre closure
- Foundations laid for new bridge
- Uproar over ‘town centre’ tag for retail development
- Tourist information centre to close
- $2.5m election carrot for Eric Boardman Stadium
- Melbourne Airport ready for Easter travellers
- Public question time Hume City Council 24 March 2025
- Plan to promote city’s historic sites a step closer
- Free native trees for schools
- Free skip bin idea dumped by council
- Free graffiti removal kits
- Shopping centre to get a make-over
- New medical centre to be built
- HiQ ready to submit power generator plans for Bulla site
- Public question time at Hume City Council
- Hunt continues for Sunbury’s lions
- What Sunbury wants…Splash parks, shade, and graffiti gone
- Customer data breach at Greater Western Water
- Rotary raises $4,000 for mental health research
- Toyota shoot TV commercial in Sunbury
- Call for SunFest 2025 volunteers
- Sunbury Tafe a step closer
- Clear-out your rubbish and dump it for free
- Community feedback causes council to change tack
- Almost half of ratepayers in arrears
- Proposed heavy truck ban – have your say
- Latest tenders advertised by Hume City Council
- $4.5m community centre for Sunbury
- General rate cap raised to 3%
- Sunbury earthworks dispute heads to VCAT hearing
- Sunbury Community Arts and Cultural Precinct advisory board – members wanted
- Road and rail disruption as level crossing removed at Diggers Rest
- Teams wanted for Sunbury aquathon – $10,000 first prize
- EPA approves development licence for Hi-Quality Quarry
- Mountain festival returns
- Taggers take over the town
- Sunbury Senior’s get a ticket to ride
- Business leaders invited to have their say on town centre revitalisation
- Sunshine Station to be rebuilt
- GWW still battling computer problems
- Third runway for Melbourne Airport
- Site confirmed for Sunbury Tafe – due to open in 2028
- Push to increase affordable and social housing in Hume
- Riddell Rd earthworks – council intervenes
- Hume City Council joins campaign for better transport
- State Legislative Council petitioned to reject Hi-Quality’s waste-to-energy plan
- Nab bank delays continue
- Energy upgrade door knockers banned
- Sunbury’s multi-deck car park ready to open
- Free help for your tax return
- Kindergartens offered $200,000 cash
- New hotels open at airport – 200 jobs created
- How to find your next job
- Campaign to champion grassroots journalism launched
- Greater Western Water workers walk out – for a good cause
- Rockstars restaurant listed for sale
- Rising costs concern for Sunbury business owners
- Business owners invited to air their concerns amid shop closures
- Nab bank branch to reopen
- Public exhibition next step for Hi-Quality’s energy-from-waste plan
- Pokie players lose record $139m as club tax breaks called into question
- Petition launched opposing Hi-Quality’s expansion plans
- $8m price guide for Goona Warra vineyard and estate
- Hume City kicks back on proposed clean fill extension
- Hi-Quality to submit waste-to-energy plans
- Burst water main cuts supply to homes
- Riddell Road landowner applies for clean fill licence
- Sunbury Square to be redeveloped
- SunFest stall holders wanted
- Okami restaurant to remain open ‘for foreseeable future’
- Okami restaurant faces uncertain future
- Pokie venues to face sweeping changes
- Citizen Advocacy website off-line
- Sunbury indoor market
- New disability support service opens
- Burger bar American Social closes
- Free local business expo returns
- Cash rate increased
- Victoria’s gold rush ended in the 19th century – or did it?
- Job seekers invited to recruitment day
- The rise of unaccountable ministerial advisors
- Melbourne Airport passengers returning to pre-lockdown levels
- Bonza launches first flight from Melbourne Airport
Category: Christmas
- Carols by Candlelight fund faces budget shortfall
- Loneliness can be a killer – but help is on hand
- Calls to Lifeline expected to rise
- Where’s our missing reindeer?
- Video – The Village Green’s Christmas Illuminations
- Sunbury lights-up – photo special
- Share your Christmas garden displays
- Christmas arrives in Sunbury
- Sunbury Christmas in the park
- Carols by Candlelight
Category: City Desk
- Council to investigate sun shades for kid’s playgrounds
- Community invited to honour heroes at 110th Anzac Day service
- Council meeting – Monday 14 April 2025
- 20,000 non-voters sent penalty notices
- Courts in session
- Waste response team to include Sunbury
- Car theft syndicate busted in Sunbury
- Writing’s on the wall for graffiti
- Neighbour Day Sunday
- Scott St house blaze
- Council call police over ‘unauthorised’ recording
- Under-15s wanted for footy team
- Deadline approaching for arts grants
- Police hunt man who allegedly exposed himself on Sunbury train
- Thousands didn’t vote in local elections
- By-election for Hume? City councillor wants a seat in federal government
- Ambo rushing up? Here’s what you should do
- Police called in over ‘secret’ council recording
- Sunbury’s Jarrod Bell elected as Hume City mayor
- How will former mayor Jack Ogilvie be remembered?
- Upset for Jack Medcraft and a close call for Jarrod Bell in election results
- Voting packs in the mail
- Why you can’t spend a penny in Bulla
- Council agenda item causes conflict of interest argy-bargy
- Candidate’s shock over missing election signs
- Sunbury’s local election candidates 2024
- Public question time at Hume Council 9 September 2024
- Trevor Dance says council chamber ‘is not a safe place’
- Council inaction led to second dog attack
- Get rid of household junk for free
- Public question time at Hume Council 26 August 2024
- Time running out for late rate payers
- Public question time at Hume Council 12 August 2024
- The $18,000 photo you paid for
- City councillors on notice to behave in the chamber
- Council staff and EPA to inspect Canterbury Hills site
- Public question time Hume City Council 8 July 2024
- Narrow streets cause a fine mess for drivers
- Museum petition gathers momentum
- 24-hour libraries shelved
- Council plans for more bikes and doubling its fleet of EVs
- ‘Confidential’ council minutes released
- Draft budget proposes general rates hike of 2.75%
- ‘Unruly’ councillors to be kicked out of meetings if new rule adopted
- Time to nominate a young leader
- Dob in a dumper scheme gets a step closer
- Public question time at Hume City Council 13 May 2024
- Meeting adjourned as councillor conduct debate becomes unruly
- Long-awaited Jacksons Hill road to be built by 2029
- State budget cuts concern council officials
- Insurer tells council to take a running jump over pool repair bill
- Forums explore barriers to reporting racism
- Victoria Police community sentiment survey
- Public question time at Hume Council Monday 29 April 2024
- Tougher oversight laws coming for Hume Council
- Call for more support to tackle family violence
- Changes planned for housing rules
- Asbestos found at council reserve play area
- Minister invited to explain poor state of social housing
- Diggers Rest level crossings latest
- Why there’s no sun shades at council playgrounds
- Councillors vote to keep accounts hidden
- $10,000 fine – Hume City Council pleads guilty following workplace injury
- Fly tipping – it’s rubbish in any language
- Questions over confidential documents continue
- Council to explore 24/7 libraries
- Court date for building waste complaint
- Free help to sort out your debts
- Public question time – Hume City Council
- Unpaid council rates total $38m
- Litter, noisy motorbikes, drugs, and EVs – Hume council answers your questions
- Hume City recognises community leaders
- New budget set for Hume City Council
- Council rates to rise 3.5% – but expect to pay 9% more overall
Category: Editor's pick
- Free trees for Sunbury schools
Category: education
- National Water Week poster contest open
- Living with kangaroos
- Excavation of rings reveal Sunbury’s rich Aboriginal history
- YouthFest grants up for grabs
- More that 1,000 ‘illegal’ fires lit in five years
- Victorian state schools spectacular
- Know the first signs of a stroke
- Great Western Water names Thriving Communities grant winners
- Workshop for parents and carers
- Students offered help to focus
- This is big – school pupils are talk of the town
- We’re still waiting for promised Tafe
Category: Entertainment
- Layers of Perception offer colour and depth
- Time to get a ticket to ride
- The stage is set for talented kids
- Ordinary Days – a sweet and tender musical
- The Miracle of Oceans on display
- Sunfest ’25 in pictures
- New York backdrop to Boilerhouse Theatre play
- Get set for Sunfest – fun for children of all ages
- Feedback wanted on playground upgrade
- Sunbury Seniors work to beat loneliness
- Sunbury’s rock festivals basis for new movie
- Mayor Jarrod Bell’s plans for Sunbury and Hume
- Record result for Sunbury Radio fundraiser
- Community Arts and Cultural Precinct comes alive
- StreetLife volunteers deliver another winning event
- Let us entertain you
- Community radio volunteers celebrate 50th anniversary
- Sunbury Radio AGM draws a crowd
- Council to investigate home for George Evans Museum collection – 10,000 exhibits
- Welsh choir sing for church roof
- Car park ‘fun day’ fizzles
- Sunbury to celebrate Australia Day
- Sunbury toddler pool cost blowout
- Under fives play date with dads
- BoilOver to pull at your heart strings
- Vendors wanted for annual Sunbury Show
- Councillors sing from the same hymn book over Carols by Candlelight
- 50,000 year generation gap explored by Sunbury author
- Breakfast show host calls it a day
- Sunbury’s original pop festivals remembered
- Jacksons Hill cultural precinct – former asylum open days
- More major events to follow Sunbury ’24 success
- Festival of choirs to entertain Sunbury
- Sunbury ’24 to be broadcast live
- Dream comes true for rock festival fan
- Sunbury ’24 headliners named
- Sports club to build children’s play area
- Get ready to rock!
- The big reveal – Ball Court Hotel
- Where were you in ’74?
- BMX club is riding high
- Video – Children’s fun day
- Cults, power, and secrets explored by Sunbury author
- StreetLife Festival – cancelled
- Sunbury Show receives cash boost
- Blue Light kids disco – date announced
- Appetite for Art
- Appetite for art
Category: Events
- Hop to it – volunteers wanted for kangaroo count
- Grants for good causes from Greater Western Water
- Campaign highlights violence against women
- Vintage bag owned by brave WWII pilot discovered in Sunbury
- King’s birthday wishes for Sunbury centenarian
- View club members go green for birthday bash
- Event grant applications open at Hume Council
- Sunbury SES volunteers plan for open day – all welcome
- Anzac heroes remembered with Australian flags
- All the fun of the fair
- Disappointment over Australia Day damp squib leads to call for annual celebration
- International Day of People with Disabilities event
- Blue Light looks for new committee members
- Sunbury StreetLife festival returns
- Last Repair Cafe of the year
- All aboard – steam trains to Sunbury
- Refusing to go to school
- Winter Lights festival date announced
- How to give back with just two hours a week
- Citizens Advocacy looking for more members
- Sunbury Anzac Day service to be broadcast
Category: Featured
Category: Hi-Quality
- Parliamentary petition opposing Bulla incinerator plan handed to Minister
- Court orders Hi-Quality to pay $40,000 to Sunbury project
- Hi-Quality publish details of public consultation
- Hi-Quality spoil extension debate deferred by councillors
- Proposal to keep Bulla spoil facility open to 2048
- Bulla waste-to-energy plant – full picture emerges
- Bulla waste-to-energy plant, what your representatives say…
- Power plant proposed by waste management firm
Category: History
- Historic plaque missing from Sunbury’s iconic fountain
Category: Hume Council
- Public Q&A at Hume Council 14 April 2025
- Next door’s dog driving you barking mad?
- Dog attack report faces more delays
- Roadworks disrupt leisure centre users
- Public question time at Hume Council 22 July 2024
- Village green gets a new name
- Iconic museum collection to be placed in multiple locations
- Public banned from council committee meetings
- Council’s new system for domestic rubbish disposal
- General rates to rise under new Hume budget
- George Evans museum details still sketchy
- Council backs working group to support rainbow community
- Do you want to stand for council in the next election?
- Spavin Lake water quality under review
- Black swan returned to Spavin Lake by Melbourne Zoo
- Whipper-snipper councillor calls for more action from Vic Roads
- Sunbury BMX Club growing fast thanks to new facilities
- $28m Jackson Hill road in the balance
- Section of Gap Rd to be renamed
- Share your views on Jackson Hill cultural precinct
- Village green to get an official name
- Campaign to keep outdoor pool open in winter gets thumbs up
- Mayor Naim Kurt joins advisory panel
- Asbestos dumped at council tip
- Petition launched to keep Sunbury pool open
- Time to ‘Dob in a Dumper’ says Cllr Jack Medcraft
- More green waste bins coming
- A moment of détente puts pressure on State government over historic Jacksons Hill
- Villawood ‘sculpture’ to be removed
- Hollywood-style sign appears on historic ridgeline
- Soccer players left on the bench by council planners
- Council’s audit committee minutes signed-off
- New council ward map means big changes for Sunbury
- Motion to lobby MP Josh Bull over vacant Jackson Hill buildings fails
- Sunbury landfill closed for good
- Kindergarten boost for Sunbury
- Pool reopening date confirmed
- Mayor calls for better bus network
- Kindergarten ballot system debate postponed
- Hume CEO has contract extended
- Leaking swimming pool to reopen next year
- Call to support walk to school program
- Changes could see Sunbury down to two council representatives
- Multideck carpark rises into the sky
- Emu Bottom wetland consultation
- Children learn how to grow food
- ‘Significant defect’ delays pool’s reopening
- Site of crumbling church may be used for housing
- Closed swimming pool drama continues
- Council to lodge insurance claim for leaking pool pipes
- $45,000 pool repair bill rises to $525,000
- Cats get a free pass from Hume Council – for now…
- Hume gets a new mayor
- Free tax help
- Sunbury fountain upgrade delayed
- Almost $22 million lost on pokies every year in Sunbury
- Cat curfew proposed following community feedback
- $10 million boost for Sunbury
- Hume council update for Sunbury
- Cause of damage to local pool a mystery
- Call to include Sunbury’s aquatic centre in structure plan
- Work starts on new multideck car park
- Landmark fountain to be upgraded
- Pressure starts to build for better bus services
- Council rejects lake name change
- Solar power information evening
- Riddell Road tip re-opens
- Sunbury leads the pack in solar panel take-up
- ‘Environmental concerns’ at Riddell Road tip
Category: Jobs
- Sunbury SES appoints new unit controller
- Melbourne Airport jobs fair
- Australia becoming nation of ‘permanently temporary’ residents
Category: Law & Order
- Suspicious house fire investigated
- Good turn could land you in court
- Stolen cars recovered
- Alleged drug traffickers arrested
- Driver of silver ute reverses into police car during chase
- Police focus on pedestrian safety
Category: News
- Council closes outdoor pool
- I can run a rainbow – photo special
- Kids water play area gets a test run
- Stage two of historic street sign project launched
- Time to check your smoke alarms
- Sunfest AGM – all welcome
- Triumph for veteran cricketers
- Mid-week meals and a helping hand
- Police search for missing boy
- Donations of food needed by local crisis centre
- Volunteers needed for Sunbury’s SES
- Myna bird battle lands on council’s doorstep
- Grants for sports clubs available now
- $43m rate arrears across Hume
- Hume Council in FOI complaints top five
- Hume City election results – who’s out, who’s in, and who had a close call?…
- Jacksons Hill Ward – recount confirmed
- Public question time at Hume Council 23 September 2024
- Nab bank on the move
- Historic abuse claims linked to Sunbury pool
- Fishing hooks worry for animal rescue volunteers
- Sunbury property values rise
- Call for town’s museum collection to be given a proper home – Jacksons Hill suggested
- Dangerous dogs in the spotlight following alleged attack on young mum
- Send him down to the shed
- Sunbury SES respond to severe weather calls
- Water bills delayed due to GWW billing error
- Playground QR codes to report issues to council
- Enforcement action taken over ‘unlawful’ earthworks
- 10,000 old tyres need a new home
- Tafe courses offered at Global Learning Centre
- Myna problem becomes a big issue
- CPR training saves Sunbury husband
- Real estate prices down by almost 6%
- Community reacts to council decision on museum collection
- Greater Western Water increases bills
- CFA volunteers needed
- Three men and a woman found dead in Broadmeadows home
- Sunbury named as a road-kill hot spot
- Work on running track reaches the finishing line
- Latest real estate sales data
- Bulla biker clocked doing 299Km/h by police
- More firefighters wanted
- Hume City shares award for excellence
- Sunbury MP gets top job
- One man, two wheels, and thousands of war graves
- Median house values rise 1.5%
- Sunbury man’s $700,000 lotto win
- Death at Sunbury leisure centre
- Heart Foundation says it’s time for a check-up
- Are you owed cash?
- Second SES site planned for Sunbury
- Protesters disrupt council meeting
- Sunbury driver nabbed for breath test
- Anzac Day police stand-off in Sunbury
- Donate your old banger to SES
- Sunbury’s volunteers recognised for vital support
- Rail station lifts raised at council
- Sunbury teens arrested
- Community transport survey launched
- Sunbury ’24 in pictures
- Family distraught by earth dumped on grave – ‘where’s the respect?’
- Petition raises support for rail station lifts
- Sunbury Street Life to hold AGM
- Sunbury home values remain static
- Survey of historic church underway
- Deb Sweeney talks about the 1975 Sunbury rock festival
- Police chase ends in Sunbury car park
- No new trees for Sunbury…For now
- $150,000 boost for community health
- View club members prepare for birthday party
- Complaints trickle in to water company
- Railway volunteers left steaming over attempted break-in
- Men’s Shed awarded almost $4,000 in council grant
- Toy library gets cash boost
- Time running out for Youth Fest grant applications
- Water company opens the cash tap for good causes
- First sign of local election battle as challenger steps forward
- Sunbury house fire
- Fire risk to close Sunbury Cemetery
- Funding shortfall worries for Neighbourhood Houses
- Call for emergency service volunteers to join local crew
- Mystery ‘temporary’ closure of NAB bank
- Commuters still waiting for Sunbury – Diggers Rest bus service
- MP demands investigation following the ‘desecration’ of Sunbury Cemetery grave
- Locals say ‘thanks’ to Sunbury police
- St John looks for more volunteers
- Distressed family want their son moved from Sunbury Cemetery
- Members of Cemetery Trust ‘alarmed’ at earthworks
- Multi-faith church gets green light – city council overruled
- George Evans Museum collection to get a new home
- Wherever I hang my hat…
- Council told to cut the grass
- Police hunt for camera car vandal
- Time to prepare your grant applications
- Call to join the SunFest street parade
- Playground Tiger snake – ‘It’s only a matter of time…’
- Radio station’s spooky guests
- Gold nuggets help fund retirement
- Works underway to improve Sunbury Cemetery
- Why pessimism has taken hold of our youth
- Family fun day at Tulsa Drive Reserve
- Abandoned church to be repaired
- On a dark, misty night…
- New CEO for Cobaw
- Cash refund scheme doesn’t make sense for some
- Sunbury’s median property price drops
- Real estate report for week ending 3 December 2023
- Jacksons Creek underpass is looking good
- Sunbury gets new trains
- Mystery over Sunbury’s $20m Lotto winners
- Red Cross celebrates 25 years in Sunbury
- Safety concerns, vandalism, see church fenced off
- Sunbury police station on reduced hours
- Sunbury Kangaroos look for new members
- Sunbury family thanks emergency services who helped deliver baby
- Football results
- Sunbury line upgrade completed
- Submissions sought on future of former hospital
- Saturday sport
- Men’s Shed looking for members
- Students recognised for legal studies
- Sunbury’s median home value now $702,000
- Mental health charity to build homes in Sunbury
- Urgent care clinic opens in Goonawarra
- What does Sunbury need?
- Sunbury rail line level crossings to be removed
- Almost 6,000 buyers chasing 200 properties
- Phone scammers steal $3bn from Aussies
- Leisure Centre to replace pool’s pipes
- Refugee Week date announced
- Neighbourhood kitchen returns
- 3.8 quake rattles Sunbury
- Jarrod Bell talks about about local infrastructure
- Basic first aid saves Sunbury toddler
- Buses to replace trains on the Sunbury line
- Keep those mice out of the home
- Sunbury sports teams win big
- Social housing upgrades miss the mark
- Goonawarra intersection upgrade
- New tanker for Sunbury fire fighters
Category: podcast
- Our latest news round-up podcast
Category: Politics
- MP’s website off-line
Category: Q&A Hume Council
Category: Real estate
- Real estate values continue to slip
- Property values down on a year ago
- Latest median house values
- Latest real estate auction sales
- Real estate report for W/E 26 November 2023
- Real estate sales for W/E 18 November 2023
- Interest rate rise not dampening property values
- Star Wars themed home could be yours
- Real estate prices may have hit the bottom
- Campaign to scrap stamp duty on real estate
Category: Sport
- Kangaroos looking for a coach
- BMX track to get $700,000 upgrade
- Anyone for tennis?
- Sports results for Saturday 22 July
Category: Travel

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