Melbourne news

Grieving loved ones have arrived at the scene of a fatal shooting in Melbourne’s inner north overnight.

Why one of Melbourne’s biggest suburbs is preserved in amber coloured brick, with a focus on family, pride and an easy way of identifying an interloper.

One of Melbourne’s biggest suburbs is preserved in amber coloured brick, with a focus on family, pride and an easy way of identifying an interloper.

Some Melbourne schools are spending nearly $100,000 on their fetes – and getting more back – after transforming ovals into festival sites that include bars for adults and amusement park rides for the kids.

If voters, well accustomed to seeing live tallies in state and federal polls, go looking they will not find any results on the Victorian Electoral Commission’s website this week.

Readers discuss how the housing crisis could have been averted if leaders kept an eye on the expanding population.

Daniel Kirby admitted to offences relating to the collapse of a notorious trading house, but is legally allowed to keep working after the corporate watchdog decided not to ban him.

This week The Age was forced to defend its reporting against powerful interests in the medical cannabis industry in a David and Goliath battle. We won the fight.

The family of the driver whose car ploughed into children at a Hawthorn East primary school has offered condolences to the family of 11-year-old Jack Davey, who was killed in the crash.

The Victoria Racing Club is opening up its members-only areas to racegoers who are prepared to pay premium prices, causing outrage among some members.

A Supreme Court judge described Ellie Price’s death as a senseless and cruel crime which robbed her young son of a life with her.

A tree branch crushes a driver, a plane falls from the sky. You think, how can it be fair?

A tree branch crushes a driver, a plane falls from the sky. You think, how can it be fair?