Pakenham Officer Star News

A surge in retail crime across Victoria has prompted major retailers to install anti-theft security gates, but the move is drawing growing concern from shoppers…

Works on Stage 1 of the Pakenham Revitalisation project continue to progress, with major construction almost complete along Drake Place. From Monday 9 February, Drake…

Firefighters and their communities have welcomed the establishment of a Parliamentary Inquiry into the 2026 summer fires, passed by the Victorian Legislative Council. The inquiry…

The Pakenham family of Jacob Van Lieshout say the system that failed him in life has continued to fail them in death, with ongoing delays…

To help keep Cardinia Shire clean, green and litter‑free, Cardinia Shire Council is encouraging the community to take part in Clean Up Australia Day on…

Beaconhills College graduate Owen Whitcher has earned a design award for an innovative project he created in his VCE Product Design and Technology subject. Owen’s…

Afternoon-peak commuters on the Cranbourne and East Pakenham lines were stuck in the trains without air conditioning for up to two and a half hours…

Pakenham business owners say they are facing an uphill battle against bureaucracy, just weeks away from the promised reopening of Bald Hill Road. A petition…

Gavin Parker is a 50 year veteran firefighter and still cannot quite believe he is paid to do it. Now, he is bewildered to be…

Yarragon South’s Emma Louise Conway has been awarded the Australian Fire Service Medal (AFSM) for over 20 years of frontline firefighting, leadership, and emergency service…

By day, he tinkers with complex systems that keep your calls connected, but by night he is all about the arts, so much so that…

A group of local young basketball players is set to take their skills international, with a life-changing educational trip to the United States planned for…