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A Geelong school has been forced to close after a fire with 60-metre flames ripped through overnight, one day after students returned from school holidays.

A Geelong school has been forced to close after a fire with 60-metre flames ripped through overnight, one day after students returned from school holidays.

We surveyed local election candidates across 31 Greater Melbourne councils. Some didn’t tell us they were members of interest groups. See what your candidates said.

Some of Melbourne’s highest-profile private girls’ schools have been operating in the red, with some in deficit for multiple years as lockdowns hampered fundraising, reducing their ability to absorb a new tax.

A year on from October 7, Jewish Australians congregating in Melbourne say they no longer feel they can rely on people they previously counted as friends.

Readers respond to anniversary of the October 7 attacks on Israel and the ongoing conflict, as well as planning laws and the problem of swooping magpies.

Readers respond to anniversary of the October 7 attacks on Israel and the ongoing conflict, as well as planning laws and the problem of swooping magpies.

A former prosecutor accused of drug trafficking has been granted bail after a court agreed his safety was at risk in custody and that remand had been ‘personally humiliating’.

Our streets have seen countless broken wrists and scraped knees, with many locals familiar with the thrill of fanging downhill on what are arguably suburban Melbourne’s steepest streets.

A Melbourne teenager accused of plotting a massacre will remain behind bars over concerns he poses an overwhelming risk to the community.

A man pursues three people who allegedly attempted to set fire to a Flemington tobacco shop on Sunday evening.

After the doctor was found not guilty in Victoria’s County Court, a civil tribunal has ruled that he did, on the balance of probabilities, sexually violate the woman during a consultation.