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Whales in the Yarra River.

West Gate whales: Giant humpbacks swim up to Melbourne’s busiest freeway

As traffic rolled overhead, the whales made their way underneath the West Gate, swimming past navigation markers and boats berthed at a marina.

  • Cassandra Morgan

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Inside a Neometro townhouse development on Martin Street, Thornbury that has won design awards.

‘Tick-box’ apartment standards stifle housing solutions, award-winning developer warns

Victoria’s apartment standards mean that unconventional plans, like boutique “lofts” similar to warehouse conversions, struggle to meet definitions for approval, Neometro says.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Premier Jacinta Allan and Deputy Premier Ben Carroll at Pascoe Vale South Primary School.

Dozens of schools to open up sports facilities after hours for western communities

Trial program will make ovals and gyms available once classes are over at 41 recently opened campuses.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Trees that were cut down to make way for an upgrade to the Albert Park pit lane.

Trees cut down in Albert Park to make way for $350m pit lane upgrade

Opponents of Formula 1’s annual takeover of the park say the felling of the trees only adds to the “environmental disaster” the event already causes in the park.

  • Tom Cowie
Gene Neill was building a seawall to stop erosion, but admits he didn’t have a permit.

Council’s final warning for Frankston mansion owner’s sea wall

Gene Neill admitted he had no permit for works in front of his $9.25 million home and previously committed to removing them, but a wall was completed instead.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly giving evidence at the hearing on Tuesday.

Public housing tower demolition plan is ‘ethnic cleansing’, says mayor

Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly has slammed the state’s plan to demolish Melbourne’s public housing towers as a land grab and threatened street resistance in explosive inquiry testimony.

  • Rachael Dexter
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Eddy Current Suppression Ring at Federation Square, where they will play in September.

Hey Oasis, this is how you do a proper comeback tour

It’s nine years since Eddy Current Suppression Ring, hailed by many as Australia’s best live band, have played. Now they’re back – but don’t get used to it.

  • Karl Quinn
Injuries from e-bikes are on the rise.

‘You just have to go, go, go’: Injury fears as food delivery riders turn to e-bikes

Hospital staff report a surge in e-bike injuries among gig economy workers as calls grow for stricter registration of the cycles.

  • Cara Waters
Architect Rowan Opat (left) and home owner Russell Jessop stand in front of the 64-year-old Edgewater Towers in St Kilda.

Let there be light: Lessons from Melbourne’s first apartment high-rise

Apartments in the 1961 tower are larger and more light-filled than modern ones. An architect who has done refurbishments of the building says rules around high-density development must be loosened.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Friendly rivalry: Rebecca Grice, left, supports British and Irish Lions while close friend Georgia King is a Wallabies fan.

Good craic, banter and beer – oh, and rugby – draw Lions fans to Melbourne game

Welsh-born Leigh Watkins, who lives in a Victorian town without a rugby team, is heading to the MCG to watch the British and Irish Lions play the Wallabies.

  • Carolyn Webb

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