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Extreme weather
Bushfires still bearing down on western towns as cool change nears
Towns in Victoria’s south-west face a nervous wait overnight as some bushfires continue to burn out of control, even as a coming cool change is expected to bring wild winds and heavy rainfall.
- by Sherryn Groch, Gemma Grant and Bianca Hall
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Victoria bushfires LIVE: Emergency, watch-and-act warnings issued across west
After hot and windy conditions across the state, bushfires have broken out in multiple locations across Victoria’s west, south-west and north-west, threatening small communities.
- by Bianca Hall and Sherryn Groch
Three killed in plane crash in Gippsland
A pilot and two passengers have died in a plane crash in eastern Victoria.
- by Sherryn Groch
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Crime
Woman stabbed to death in front of kids in Melbourne’s east; man arrested
Three teenage witnesses were at the Bayswater home at the time of the stabbing, with one receiving a minor injury.
- by Sherryn Groch
Colonel Anthony Pratt? How the cardboard box king earned his stripes
On Monday, Anthony Pratt announced he’d become a permanent US resident. But it was another title that caught CBD’s eye.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Sherryn Groch
Colonel Anthony Pratt? How the billionaire box king earned his stripes
What intrigued us most about the cardboard baron’s LinkedIn announcement that he was moving to the US was the name on his social media account.
- by Sherryn Groch and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Naked City
Easey Street suspect unmasked as link to victims emerges
Perry Kouroumblis, now 65, is suspected of killing two women in the 1977 Easey Street murders – and one of Melbourne’s oldest schools links him to the victims.
- by John Silvester, Sherryn Groch, Ashleigh McMillan and Hannah Kennelly
Police expand barricades, search protesters on subdued day two of anti-war demonstration
Police used metal detectors to scan protesters outside the weapons expo in Melbourne on Thursday, but the turn-out was much smaller than the previous day, when violence erupted between officers and activists.
- by Lachlan Abbott, Rachael Dexter, Alex Crowe, Cassandra Morgan and Sherryn Groch
Guns, sandwiches and a 60-tonne tank: Inside the Land Forces expo
The Land Forces arms expo features weaponry that can kill en masse, alongside armour to protect military dogs. And more lanyards than you can poke a howitzer at.
- by Sherryn Groch
Republican National Convention 2024 as it happened: Trump running mate J.D. Vance accepts nomination
The convention in Milwaukee comes on the heels of an assassination attempt on Republican nominee former president Donald Trump.
- by Sherryn Groch and Chris Zappone
The uni rich list: Vice chancellors on $1 million salaries revealed
Australia’s highest-paid vice chancellors are now earning six times their university’s senior professors as the union calls for an inquiry into wage theft.
- by Daniella White and Sherryn Groch
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