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The house at 148 Ballantyne Street in Thornbury, which sold at auction for $1 million.

They bought a knockdown rebuild and got a fight over Thornbury’s tallest trees

The larger of two eucalypts locals are fighting to save is estimated to be more than 25 metres tall and believed to be one of the tallest trees in Thornbury.

  • Tom Cowie

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Strathtulloh family.

The lowest and highest birth rates in Melbourne by suburb

Housing stress could be leading Melburnians to have fewer babies in their lifetime in all but a few of the city’s most affordable suburbs, new analysis suggests.

  • Adam Carey
Solomon Heights.

How a century-old ‘zombie subdivision’ became Melbourne’s ‘worst case of urban blight’

A prime site in Melbourne’s west boasts river frontage, city views and proximity to transport links. Yet Solomon Heights has remained undeveloped for a century.

  • Adam Carey
 Jet’s Cam Muncey, Chris Cester, Nic Cester and Mark Wilson on stage at the Gasometer.

‘A pub for the people’: Top chef saves the Gaso as a live music venue

Collingwood pub the Gasometer is being saved as a venue for gigs after its closure in March sparked fears for the pub’s future. 

  • Cara Waters
The Australian Grand Prix.

Public lockout at Albert Park GP precinct set to triple in length

The lockout from the Formula 1 precinct before and after the race would extend from seven days to three weeks under law changes proposed by the state government.

  • Hannah Hammoud
Sam Aldemir, owner of De Barcelona cafe in Hawthorn, is encouraging delivery riders to stay on the road.

Reckless food delivery riders making footpaths ‘lawless’ in busy shopping strips

Melbourne business owners are taking matters into their own hands after witnessing speeding and collisions between delivery e-bike riders and pedestrians.

  • Saria Ratnam
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Former Melbourne lord mayor Sally Capp with a Moomba sceptre and portraits of Moomba monarchs.

From mayoral robes to urinals: The hidden treasure chest that helped shape Melbourne

Old parking meters and Moomba crowns are some of the weird and wonderful items that hold Melbourne’s memory. From Sunday, the public can go behind the scenes.

  • Rachael Dexter
Safety Beach fast food site

Community anger after losing six-year battle against beachside fast-food outlet

Mornington Peninsula residents say they feel ignored after a tribunal ruled in favour of a possible new McDonald’s store just 100 metres from the beach.

  • Tom Cowie
A calf at the new elephant habitat at Werribee Open Range Zoo.

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
Tim Staindl and Duncan Wallace outside the Corkman pub rebuild in Carlton.

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

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