Melbourne news

Enrolments have more than doubled at some schools over recent years and many others have also experienced rapid growth.

Readers respond to the AFL, gender-affirming care, The Australian Club appointment and the floods.

A council in Melbourne’s east is debating removing more than 150 towering native trees lining suburban streets, following calls from some people who want them gone.

A hairless cat riding a skateboard and a breed with leopard-like spots featured at the new Oz Feline Fair.

Police swarmed Northland shopping centre after a brawl involving 10 people, some armed with knives, broke out on Sunday afternoon.

Hundreds have begun the Walk for Truth from Portland, where Victoria’s first European settlement began in 1834 – marking the end of the world as Aboriginal people had known it.

South Melbourne residents are on edge a day after gunshots shattered the peace in a suburban street where a woman was killed after ramming a policeman with a car.