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One night in 1995, a mystery man knocked on the door of a home in Sunbury, hurt and bleeding. The next morning, he was found dead on a dirt road 17 kilometres away.

Box Hill Senior Secondary College overcame a period of turmoil to top the list of Victoria’s most improved schools for VCE results. See the top 25 list by school sector.

The independent candidate for Kooyong spoke to The Age outside her electorate office after her Liberal rival, Amelia Hamer, made a "gracious" concession call on Monday afternoon.

Readers respond to The Age’s report on state education spending, the election result, and Albanese’s cabinet choices.

A woman whose family’s car rolled down an embankment is among nine people killed in a spate of crashes over the weekend and into Monday.

Grey-headed flying foxes have returned to the gardens, but where loud noises were used to get them out 20 years ago, gardens staff are favouring a softer method this time – with success.

The residents of my suburb tell me they grew up here, as did their parents, and they hope their children will stay here as well. And why wouldn’t they want to?

An attention-grabbing mural in a quiet bluestone laneway near Brunswick Street is the focus of a new debate about what is art and what is offensive.

A woman whose family’s car rolled down an embankment is among six people killed in a spate of crashes over the weekend and into Monday.

A woman whose family’s car rolled down an embankment is among five people killed in a spate of crashes around Mother’s Day in Victoria.