Bendigo desperately needs a new courthouse. The current building, while beautiful, is unsuitable and unsafe for modern law. In this instalment of a series looking at all areas of law, Leading Senior Constable DAVID SOMERTON, a police prosecutor, looks at why the current courthouse in unsuita..

Transit safety police will have a significant presence at the Bendigo Railway Station today as part of Operation Safe Spring. The specialised officers will be patrolling around the station and on V/Line services targeting anti-social behaviour. Transit Safety Division Senior Sergeant Janet..

ONE of Bendigo’s top police prosecutors has made a damning assessment of the city’s courthouse, labelling it dangerous with archaic facilities. Leading Senior Constable David Somerton has been prosecuting criminals at the Bendigo Law Courts for almost 20 years. I..

Five-year-old Caitlin Crute leads an active life that would put most of us to shame. Mainly because she doesn’t have a choice: like more than 122,000 Australians, Caitlin has Type 1 diabetes. She’s struggled with the symptoms for the past two years: a seri..

THE State Government will be urged to set up police pods to combat anti-social violence, and use state-of-the-art technology to detect bushfires, at the Liberal Party State Council meeting in Bendigo this weekend. About 400 politicians and delegates will meet at the All Seasons..

Gateway Park, once the first point of welcome for visitors coming north to Bendigo, is soon to get a much-needed makeover. And while some of the plans came as a surprise to residents whose properties border on the oddly-shaped pocket of land on the Calder Highway at Kangaroo Fl..