Melbourne news

Parents are choosing private education in increasing numbers, but the latest school snapshot also had much-needed good news for government schools.

Test your knowledge of Melbourne and Victoria with Stephen Brook’s quiz.

There have been more than a dozen arson attacks and two shootings related to illicit tobacco markets since Hamad was arrested in Iraq in mid-January.

To add to Pakula’s workload for the week he was asked as the chair of Crown to find a last-minute room for a “late breaking visitor”.

A coroner has found two university housemates found dead near Mount Bogong likely become disorientated in severe weather after taking on a hike they were inexperienced for.

Readers evaluate the actions of Trump, Netanyahu and the words of Albanese and the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and only one of them gets a positive result.

In a defamation action against her estranged husband, Cate Sayers claims the businessman shared false medical information and details of her sexual history.

The same police investigating the alleged childcare paedophile have now charged a third person with nearly 200 sex crimes against children and animals.

Nicole Piastri says she wishes her son Oscar had chosen golf or tennis. “But he loves it,” she says ahead of the Australian Grand Prix.

A resident who says he had never met Freeman was ordered at gunpoint to lie facedown and restrained with zip ties, before he was told by officers he was under arrest for harbouring a fugitive.

Families involved in two horror mix-ups that saw women implanted with the wrong embryos have received massive secret settlements from Monash IVF.

As Lynn was told he will remain behind bars as he awaits a retrial for the murder of Carol Clay in Victoria’s High Country, he kept his gaze fixed firmly on the floor.

As Lynn was told he will remain behind bars as he awaits a retrial for the murder of Carol Clay in Victoria’s High Country, he kept his gaze fixed firmly on the floor.