City life
The elephants with room to move and trumpeting their happy habitat
The new habitat at Werribee Open Range Zoo includes a swimming pool, space to explore and underpasses where visitors can walk underneath the herd.
- Cara Waters
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Brick-by-brick rebuild of bulldozed pub becomes a concrete ‘Temu Corkman’
Nearly a decade after its illegal demolition, the Corkman Pub is going back up. But what’s emerging has left those who fought for its rebuild feeling cold.
- Rachael Dexter and Clay Lucas
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 Bridge, swimming past navigation markers and boats berthed at a marina.
- Cassandra Morgan
‘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
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 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
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
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
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
‘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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