Mont Albert

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Melbourne

Via Porta

This cafe is a finalist in the best all-rounder category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

4 days ago

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Irene Cus has lived in her home in Keilor Downs for 20 years.

Melbourne house prices

The affordable Melbourne suburbs where residents never want to leave

Properties in these beloved suburbs change hands only once every 20 years, and residents say it’s because everything they need is close to home.

April 26, 2025
Jim Malo

Victorian council elections

Whitehorse City Council: What your candidates said

Voters in Whitehorse will choose 11 people to represent them on council for the next four years. Here is what the candidates said about why they are running in the Victorian council elections and what they want to achieve.

October 1, 2024
Cara Waters and Rachael Dexter

City life

Council pruning ultimatum sees century-old hedge turned to woodchip

A new policy on hedges was meant to balance community value with footpath access, but it’s sparked a war that has resulted in a cypress beauty being torn down.

September 3, 2024
Adam Carey

Via Porta bakes its own pastries and supplies them to other cafes.

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Melbourne

House-baked pastries and dessert-for-breakfast at Via Porta

This Mont Albert cafe and provedore offers take-home dishes and bakes its own (excellent) croissants.

March 22, 2021
Dani Valent

Internet cables were damaged by constructions workers.

Network outage

Construction workers blamed for internet blackout in Melbourne's east

Telstra blames clumsy construction workers for widespread internet outage in Box Hill and Mont Albert that is making working, studying from home more difficult.