City life
More frost on the way after Melbourne shivers through coldest start of 2024
Elsewhere in Victoria, temperatures in Horsham, Bendigo, Ballarat and Geelong dropped to between minus 1 degree and minus 3 degrees.
- by Alex Crowe
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Servo a no-no: Coburg locals, council say eight petrol stations is enough
A council has sided with residents and refused plans for another service station in a part of Melbourne where people are encouraged to walk, cycle or use public transport.
- by Tom Cowie
Martin loves being a clown. Doing IT during COVID just confirmed it
Circus Latino, run by an Argentinian-Australian family, is giving 20 performances in the winter school holidays.
- by Carolyn Webb
New lord mayor to target ‘completely unacceptable’ safety issues, cleanliness
Nick Reece has been sworn in as lord mayor, but it’s just a few months until the next City of Melbourne elections and he’s yet to announce a run for the top post.
- by Cara Waters and Sophie Aubrey
Build it and they’ll keep coming: The playground that kids asked for
A Melbourne council keen to redevelop a beloved adventure playground ran consultation workshops with kids. Here’s what the youngsters asked for.
- by Sophie Aubrey
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Biodiversity
Measures meant to protect our last grasslands are seeing them trashed
Thirty-six conservation areas in Melbourne’s growth corridor contain some of the last intact grasslands in Australia, but just three are in good health.
- by Adam Carey
Miscalculation leaves Melton $224m short for roads, kindergartens, bridges, bike trails
Home prices in Melbourne’s outer west will rise by as much as $25,000 as developers look to pass on an increased levy for infrastructure in emerging suburbs.
- by Adam Carey
How a new six-storey apartment block devolved into the ‘turd across the street’
In its six-year lifespan, 375 Punt Road was earmarked for housing and then a hotel. Now it’s an abandoned eyesore that is a magnet for vagrants and drug users.
- by Tom Cowie
Weighing up Melbourne’s markets: Cheapest, freshest, best vibes
As the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite, Melbourne’s market traders say they are seeing an increase in new customers joining the regulars.
- by Cara Waters
This suburb is ‘centre of the universe’. Can it keep up with demand?
Among Chinese migrants, there is a term used to describe Glen Waverley. ‘Yu zhou zhong xin’ means ‘the centre of the universe’.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Got the holiday blues? See T-Rex bones, cuddle a cat or smash stuff
We investigate some unconventional options for winter school holiday activities.
- by Carolyn Webb
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