Charges have been dismissed against a diabetic driver who killed five people when he ploughed into a Daylesford beer garden. The victims’ grieving relatives have hit out at the decision saying “there is zero justice”.
Thousands of Victoria Police officers have voted to ramp up their industrial action, which could have ramifications for the Grand Final and parade, while they will also stop issuing on-the-spot traffic fines.
Two men are facing up to a decade in jail after they allegedly helped try to import more than seven million illegal smokes from India and Vietnam.
Up to a dozen young offenders are on the run after terrifying victims in a spate of attempted armed robberies across Melbourne in just one day.
A police officer whose job was spared after he had sex with a woman he was investigating now faces some career obstacles after his charges were thrown out.
Gunmen have opened fire on the home of a former director of an executive car rental company for the second time in just three days, with police warning the man to leave the property over concerns for his safety.
Outspoken restaurateur and pro-Palestine activist Hash Tayeh said he will give up his public campaigning because the rallies have become a place of “division and judgement”.
Latest crime figures highlight the contempt for authority among some youths, with thousands of offences carried out against Victoria Police officers and emergency workers.
When neighbours heard the Surrey Hills man yelling for help from inside his home, they called an ambulance. But 50 crews were “dropped” overnight due to high levels of sick leave and by the time one finally arrived, he was dead.
A Thornbury smoke shop has become the latest hit in Victoria’s raging tobacco wars, with police now probing the suspicious blaze.
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