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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

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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
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
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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
Lia Arraiano, Neda Nikolic and Andrew Haysom at the Jacinda Ardern mural in Brunswick.

This trio has mapped hundreds of murals in Melbourne. Here are 15 of the best

Neda noticed Victoria’s capital was underrepresented on the world’s largest urban-art website. So she formed a team to put Melbourne on the map.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Coroner Audrey Jamieson described Victroria’s regulations on e-bikes as “suboptimal”.

Coroner calls for e-bikes to be registered as motorcycles

Coroner Audrey Jamieson said Nitin Haldipur Prabhu’s death was a tragic reminder of the importance for greater regulations of e-bikes.

  • Hannah Hammoud

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