Mornington Peninsula News Group

06/08/2025

FIREFIGHTERS from Sorrento Fire Brigade are now trained to respond to people experiencing cardiac arrests thanks to a vital new partnership with Ambulance Victoria. Read more: https://www.mpnews.com.au/2025/08/07/life-saving-training-for-sorrento-fire-brigade/

06/08/2025

Tahnee Driver initially dismissed her bloating as a possible food intolerance — maybe gluten. But six weeks ago, everything changed when the 39-year-old mother of two was urged to go to hospital after several days of being unable to keep food down. Then, following an MRI, she received a devastating diagnosis: bowel cancer. Read more: https://www.mpnews.com.au/2025/08/06/tahnee-faces-battle-with-stage-4-bowel-cancer/

06/08/2025

South East Water has lifted the Boil Water Advisory for Frankston South – the water is safe to drink. Read more:

South East Water has lifted the Boil Water Advisory for Frankston South – the water is safe to drink.  Customers and community who are in the affected streets no longer need to boil their water as a precaution and can use tap water as normal.   South East Water’s water quality sampling result...

05/08/2025

A MULTI-agency working group has been formed to address urgent tenant welfare concerns and long-standing maintenance issues at the Main St public housing complex in Mornington. Read more:

A MULTI-agency working group has been formed to address urgent tenant welfare concerns and long-standing maintenance issues at the Main St public housing complex in Mornington. Mornington Peninsula Shire set up the group to tackle to “significant challenges” including maintenance, systems, tenan...

05/08/2025

A GROUP of concerned animal welfare advocates have held a peaceful vigil outside RSPCA Victoria’s headquarters as it investigates reports of underweight horses at a Mt Eliza property. Read more: https://www.mpnews.com.au/2025/08/05/protesters-rally-outside-rspca-hq-over-horse-welfare-concerns/

05/08/2025

Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged three people after a car was allegedly stolen and a 3D printed firearm was located in Frankston this morning. Read more:

Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged three people after a car was allegedly stolen and a 3D printed firearm was located in Frankston this morning. It is alleged understood three people were loitering in a carpark near a grey Hyundai i30 with alleged cloned plates about 1.15am.....

04/08/2025

SAFETY Beach will get a McDonalds store after years of community campaigning against the fast-food giant’s attempts to establish in the town.

Read more: https://www.mpnews.com.au/2025/08/05/mcdonalds-coming-to-safety-beach-after-vcat-overrides-shire/

04/08/2025

A PENINSULA surfer mum has made waves on the national stage after claiming top spot in the over-40s women’s division at this year’s Australian Longboard Titles final. Read more:

A PENINSULA surfer mum has made waves on the national stage after claiming top spot in the over-40s women’s division at this year’s Australian Longboard Titles final. Eglantine (Tina) Balland, 41, beamed with pride after securing the title at Cabarita Beach in NSW on 25 July. A life-long lover o...

04/08/2025

SOMERVILLE businessman Jamie (Jay) Scicluna has been ordered to pay $5000 towards the legal costs of a Somerville businesswoman, after it was ruled he applied for a personal safety intervention order against her “frivolously”. Read more:

SOMERVILLE businessman and publisher of the Somerville Times and Peninsula Local publications, and the stplnews.com.au website, Jamie (Jay) Scicluna has been ordered to pay $5000 towards the legal costs of a Somerville businesswoman, after it was ruled he applied for a personal safety intervention o...

03/08/2025

South East Water has advised that as of 12:30am 4 August 2025, the tap water at Frankston South is not safe to drink without boiling first. Read more:

South East Water has advised that as of 12:30am 4 August 2025, the tap water at Frankston South is not safe to drink without boiling first. The advisory is in place because the water pressure in the area has dropped on Sunday 3 August 2025. Low or no water pressure can let dirty water and/or sedime...

02/08/2025

Victoria Police caught 835 drink and drug drivers in the Frankston area and along the Mornington Peninsula over the past year. Read more:

Victoria Police caught 835 drink and drug drivers in the Frankston area and along the Mornington Peninsula over the past year. Preliminary data from the 24/25 FY reveals more than half of all drug drivers were repeat offenders, while one in five drink drivers had been previously caught over the bloo...

01/08/2025

The Board of Inquiry into the McCrae landslide will hold its next block of public hearings at the Federal Court of Australia in Melbourne starting at 10 am on Monday 4 August 2025. Read more:

The Board of Inquiry into the McCrae landslide will hold its next block of public hearings at the Federal Court of Australia in Melbourne starting at 10 am on Monday 4 August 2025. The Board of Inquiry is investigating the cause of the 14 January 2025 landslide that occurred in McCrae.  Expert wit...