A Black Saturday survivor who’s still struggling to come to terms with the 2009 firestorm says he’s convinced they’ll “cop it again” this summer. Steve, who lost nine neighbours at Marysville in 2009, fought back tears while speaking with Neil Mitchell on Tuesday. He was prompted to call 3AW after hearing a discussion about the […]

A retired reverend who was carjacked at gunpoint after playing golf at Royal Park Golf Course yesterday has talked Neil Mitchell through his “crazy thoughts” during the ordeal. John Evans, 65, had just left the course about 8am when he was blocked by a dark-coloured SUV on Old Poplar Road at Parkville. One person emerged […]

A truck’s brakes failed while it was going up hill on Research-Warrandyte Road in North Warrandyte this morning. The vehicle, which was reportedly heavily loaded, rolled back, crushing multiple cars in the busy road. Karen saw the incident unfold. “A lady’s car was completely crushed” she said. “I don’t know how she escaped without getting […]

Foreign-born criminals are being handed lighter sentences in Victoria due to the fact they’ll eventually be deported. The Sentencing Advisory Council has found that Victoria is among four Australians states where the threat of deportation is used when sentencing. It comes five years after a government crackdown that now sees non-Australian citizens deported automatically if […]

Image: Google Maps Security has been increased at a hospital in Melbourne’s west after two doctors were bashed and robbed in less than a week. A registrar was attacked in broad daylight by four men while leaving Sunshine Hospital at around 5.20pm yesterday. The doctor was kicked in the face repeatedly, and the attackers fled […]

Image: Nine News A woman has been violently attacked by a kangaroo while walking her dog in Wodonga. Dina needed 25 stitches to her face, and narrowly avoided losing an eye in the attack. But she says doesn’t blame the animal for turning on her. “He was an alpha male so he would have been […]