Northern Star Weekly

  • Council services hour changes

    Council services hour changes

    Hume council has announced the opening hours of its services and centres for the upcoming Christmas holiday period from 24 December to 1 January. Customer…

  • Music program brings young families together

    Music program brings young families together

    Encompass Care held its last mainly music event for the year on 9 December, celebrating with pre-schoolers and their families. Encompass Care chief operations officer…

  • YPRL’s Christmas storytime with Santa

    YPRL’s Christmas storytime with Santa

    Yarra Plenty Ranges Library is celebrating the festive season across its branches with Christmas Storytimes crafts and catch-ups. On December 10, Star Weekly photographer Damjan…

  • Wilmot re-signs with Brisbane

    Wilmot re-signs with Brisbane

    Brisbane draftee Darcy Wilmot had been a Lion for two days when he walked in to train with a bunch of strangers, blaring “doof doof…

  • Greenvale reservoir park is open

    Greenvale reservoir park is open

    Greenvale Reservoir Park has opened to the public, eleven years after it was closed. Victorian Water Minister Gayle Tierney officially reopened the park on 9…

  • A new evolution of circus arrives

    A new evolution of circus arrives

    A circus spectacular is set to light up South Morang in January with exciting performances from fire acts to aerials and jugglers. Rebecca Capener co-produces…

  • Local library wins in customer satisfaction

    Local library wins in customer satisfaction

    A new report from Public Libraries Victoria has found that Yarra Plenty Regional Library (YPRL) has the most satisfied customers in the state. YPRL chief…

  • Council invests in greener turfs

    Council invests in greener turfs

    Hume council is continuing to invest in improving the surfaces of green spaces across the municipality. At the 8 December council meeting, a series of…

  • Pingers undefeated

    Pingers undefeated

    Epping made light work of Bundoora United, to make it two from two in the Diamond Valley Cricket Association Barclay Shield summer smash. After winning…

  • Council calls for greater road rule enforcement

    Council calls for greater road rule enforcement

    Hume council is requesting that the state government increases road rule enforcement on Craigieburn Road. At the 8 December council meeting, councillor Jim Overend raised…

  • Hume land back on the market

    Hume land back on the market

    Hume council has extended the window for developers to find a tenant for an “exciting” lot in Broadmeadows’ Hume Central Precinct. Wilbow and Deal Corporation…

  • Fatal Somerton crash

    Fatal Somerton crash

    Police are investigating a fatal crash in Somerton in which a rolling truck hit a pole that fell on a passing car killing the driver.…