Street playgrounds, pop-up parks and roads taken over by outdoor dining tables are on the cards in Port Phillip under a bid to revitalise the area when coronavirus restrictions lift. But not everyone is happy about the alfresco-only dining plan.
A knife-wielding thug was high on a cocktail of drugs and alcohol when he embarked on a 20-minute reign of terror in St Kilda, breaking into several homes and telling one victim “I stabbed your dog”.
A McKinnon builder has been forced to pay a woman more than $65,000 after he botched construction of her Bentleigh East properties, leaving them with cracks in the walls and shoddy plumbing.
Lockdown laws have children — and parents — climbing the walls but in one Melbourne council they could soon be swinging from the trees instead as hundreds of people sign petitions calling for nature strips to be transformed into mini playgrounds.
Sick of listening to the same old tunes while trapped inside the same four walls every day? We asked some Australian musicians which songs were helping them get through iso. Here’s what artists like Dean Lewis, Ben Lee and The Rubens have on repeat.
A journalism student who took his fight over a failed uni assignment to the state’s highest court — and lost — has now tried to claim Monash University discriminated against him when it handed out the dud mark.
A man has been charged over a horrific crash in Epping last year which killed truck driver and beloved father-of-two Peter Howard.
A popular Yeshivah College Rabbi sacked over a string of child safety incidents at the St Kilda East school has had one last attempt at winning back his $90,000 a year job.
A virtual performance of a sea shanty has kept Middle Park Primary students connected during lockdown. And they’ve given the old classic a global pandemic twist. SEE THE VIDEO
Five people have been arrested in drug raids on properties across Melbourne’s southeast on Friday. The men are believed to be part of a major drug trafficking syndicate.
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