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Artist and designer Samarra Ewing-Crellin is a renter who likes her unit, despite her rent going up from $1400 to $1800 in just under three years.

‘Landlord’s market’: Melbourne rents at record highs as tenants chase cheaper options

Melbourne’s median asking unit rent is $575 a week, 4.5 per cent higher than a year ago, Domain’s latest Rent Report shows.

  • Caroline Zielinski

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60 Roseneath Road, Warncoort.

The nine best properties for sale in Victoria right now

A bush retreat with a pizza oven and veggie garden and a Foy & Gibson warehouse conversion are two of this week’s best homes for sale.

  • Mary O'Brien and Lou Sweeney
A GIF of a 4WD speeding through Northland shopping centre on Wednesday afternoon.

Man on the run after stolen car speeds through Northland

The shopping centre was sent into lockdown for the second time in less than a month when a four-wheel-drive smashed past bollards and drove through it.

  • Hannah Hammoud
24-hour marinated charcoal chicken with Lebanese pita bread.

Habibi

Wagga’s favourite Lebanese chicken, now in Melbourne.

  • Quincy Malesovas
Tyler’s carrot cake.

Tyler’s Milkbar

This venue is a finalist for best family-friendly cafes in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Ali has described how he sprung into action during the machete brawl at Northland on Sunday.

Ali came for sushi and left a hero after rushing to act during machete brawl

Ali survived the Boxing Day tsunami and a bombing attack in his native Sri Lanka. When a machete brawl broke out in front of him on Sunday, he sprang into action.

  • Sherryn Groch, Cassandra Morgan, Melissa Cunningham and Nicole Precel
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McKinnon Secondary College principal Michael Kan, school captains Amelie and Jake and assistant principal Kellie Felmingham.

The Victorian schools where enrolments are booming

Enrolments have more than doubled at some schools over recent years and many others have also experienced rapid growth.

  • Alex Crowe
A photo taken by witnesses at Northland shows a person wielding a knife lunging at two other people.

Rival gangs armed with machetes send shoppers fleeing, force centre into lockdown

Police swarmed Northland shopping centre after a brawl involving 10 people, some armed with knives, broke out on Sunday afternoon.

  • Roy Ward, Henrietta Cook and Ashleigh McMillan
Roger Grinstead and his partner Twinkle Dave.

The eight Melbourne suburbs bucking the property price trend

Apartment prices are down across Melbourne over the past year, but a select few suburbs have shot the lights out.

  • Jim Malo
Long-time Darebin councillor Gaetano Greco has died at the age of 65 long-battle with skin cancer.

Gaetano Greco, veteran inner-north councillor, dies aged 65

Greco had been serving his 17th year on Darebin council in Melbourne’s inner-north and was known for his tireless community advocacy.

  • Rachael Dexter

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