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Lord Mayor Nick Reece and deputy lord mayor Roshena Campbell.

Councillors are lining up to attack this website – the lord mayor granted it an interview

There are complaints aplenty from the city’s municipal chambers about the site’s pointed attacks.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman

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Francesco Fontana, of Fontana Brothers, will be part of a strike of Queen Victoria Market fruit and vegetable stall holders  on Tuesday.

Why Queen Victoria Market fruiterers will strike for the first time in 147 years

As a dispute over rising costs rolls on, the famed market’s fruit and vegetable traders say they will shut their stalls on Tuesday.

  • Cara Waters
Lord Mayor Nick Reece at the Regent Theatre. He pledged during his campaign to be elected lord mayor to sell the council’s share in the theatre.

‘I got it wrong’: Lord mayor abandons plan to sell Regent Theatre

Nick Reece says he failed to appreciate the level of support among Melburnians for the heritage-listed venue on Collins Street.

  • Cara Waters
King George’s head on a barbecue

George V statue’s lopped head shown alight on barbecue

Victoria Police and the City of Melbourne are searching for the head after footage was posted on Australia Day.

  • Cara Waters
Alec Kahn, match secretary for the Mercantile Cricket Association in Royal Park.

Seventy hectares lost: Melbourne’s sports grounds are dwindling

Sports clubs across the City of Melbourne are cramming onto a diminishing number of sports grounds in the battle for green space for a booming population. 

  • Cara Waters
Fiona Bell, president of the Protectors of Public Lands Victoria, is worried about plans to add more sporting grounds to Royal Park.

Melbourne’s largest park is dark and wild, but a new plan will add sports grounds, paving and lighting

The new masterplan for Royal Park has angered residents and community and environmental groups, who fear a loss of open space and harm to flora and fauna.

  • Cara Waters
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Melbourne Lord Mayor Nick Reece pledged to bring in a city safety team.

Nick Reece spruiked a crack squad to clean up the CBD. So far, it’s two security guards

The City of Melbourne wanted their 30-strong team of local law officers to tackle begging and alcohol use in the CBD with the help of police, but the force rejected a request to trial two full-time officers.

  • Cara Waters
Gina Edwards and Oscar the cavoodle after she won her defamation case against Nine.

Celebrity cavoodle defamation case triggers dramatic legal falling out

After winning a defamation case against A Current Affair, barrister Gina Edwards is locked in a costs dispute with her former lawyer Rebekah Giles.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Lord Mayor Nick Reece said he would not take donations from developers in the City of Melbourne in the election campaign.

Property owner donated to Nick Reece’s campaign two days after crucial vote

The lord mayor accepted a donation from Audi Centre Melbourne after voting to discontinue part the West Melbourne street adjoining the business.

  • Cara Waters
The fireworks and laser shows in Melbourne last year.

‘More lasers than Star Wars’: Lord mayor heralds New Year’s Eve celebration like no other

Fireworks will shoot from 27 rooftops across the city, and a spectacular laser display will ring in the new year for Melburnians.

  • Roy Ward

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