Melbourne news

A towering lemon-scented eucalypt outside Sandringham Hospital is at the centre of a passionate dispute as it faces the axe.

Readers bemoan the opposition’s performance during the federal election.

This weekend’s Wimmera Steampunk festival is set to be the biggest yet, and that’s a big deal for host town Dimboola, which came close to being destroyed by a bushfire in January.

A 71-year-old woman was in custody on Friday.

A 71-year-old woman was in custody on Friday.

Grant Johns, 39, has vowed to contest allegations against him.

The Children’s Cancer Centre will lose as many as 10 full-time equivalent roles, including dedicated mental health workers, in a move staff have described as devastating.

A former Melbourne teacher is accused of indecently assaulting and abusing a teenage girl in the late 1990s while a teacher at an inner-north school.

With the screens glowing red and Donald Trump making mayhem, our much-respected columnist says it’s the scariest time of his career.

The woman was stabbed more than 100 times by her son and his schoolmate as part of a delusional plan to form a child army and restore Christian values to Australia.

Danielle and Stephen Iskander left Northern Hospital without their first child, who died after unreasonable delays in performing an emergency caesarean.

Retired cop Rod Phillips still has questions about the Mr Cruel theory. “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a big call. How can they have a suspect when they haven’t even got here yet?’”