Werribee, Australia News

COMMUTERS will experience lengthy delays on the Werribee and Williamstown lines this morning due to a track fault at Newport.

A 25-year-old man was left with serious injuries and a 30-year-old left suffering a broken wrist following the allegedly violent robberies which occurred about 3am on April 14.

SICK kids and patients requiring eye and ear surgery are set to benefit from a $400 million injection to fund two major hospital projects.

The Victorian Government says the state budget to be handed down today will focus on infrastructure and front-line services.

Metro spokeswoman Larisa Tait said a faulty train between Flinders St and Southern Cross stations meant there was only one set of tracks to run Craigieburn, Sunbury, Upfield, Werribee and Williamstown trains.

EVEN after her web of false invoices came crashing down putting an end to the luxury holidays, new cars and corporate box seats Wendy Jobson's psychiatrist remained adamant the 50-year-old was not a pathological gambler.

A 13-year old from Cheltenham was arrested in Collingwood overnight while a 16-year-old from Wyndham Vale handed himself in at Werribee police station in the early hours of this morning.

Treasurer Michael O'Brien says the shift of an insurance-based tax to a property-based one collected by local councils will see Victorian property owners share the cost of fire services, creating a fairer system.

Wyndham Mayor Heather Marcus says traffic congestion in Melbourne's west is the No.1 concern for residents.

Luke Garland will finish up as curator of the Albury Racing Club to weigh up other jobs in the greenkeeping industry.

A MOTHER of two who gambled away almost $8 million stolen from her employer on online pokies has at least 10 different personalities, a court has heard.

Passengers on the Craigieburn, Frankston, Pakenham, Werribee and Williamstown lines are waking up to changes to timetables and cancelled trains.

Some express trains are expected to stop all stations, selected loop trains will run direct to Flinders St and there will be a number of cancellations.

Promising St Kilda forward Spencer White has Saints fans excited after a break-out match for Sandringham in its first win of the season by 64 points over the Werribee Tigers at Avalon Airport Oval on Saturday.

WANDIN horseman Will Enzinger reinforced his status as one of Australia's top riders with victory in the two-day Camperdown Horse Trials.

A NEW 54-bed mental health unit will be built in Melbourne's west and is expected to open in 2016.

Police say the girl has been seen at various times - the last on Tuesday, April 16 in Werribee - but issued a media release late this afternoon because of concerns for her safety due to her young age.

Nakuru, a young female giraffe, is transported in a crate from Auckland Zoo through Mt Eden before embarking on her cross-Tasman voyage.

Don Hany and Claudia Karvan star in the telemovie of Peter Temple's novel The Broken Shore .

A merchant ship carrying a giraffe tried to join the search for a Russian sailor missing off eastern Victoria this morning.