Melbourne news

As politicians line up to blast Coles over its use of Micky Ahuja’s security company, a sting operation has caught the disgraced company boss thumbing his nose at the Australian authorities.

Daniel Andrews vowed it would never happen under Labor. But one in three councils have ditched weekly pick-ups, and a big inner-city council plans to follow suit.

Readers celebrate International Women’s Day and argue that being able to get the oral contraceptive pill from a pharmacy instead of a doctor is not a good idea.

Men across Victoria and NSW have been arrested in a major police operation that uncovered some of the most depraved child abuse material investigators have ever seen.

Though January’s bushfires scorched nearly as much land as Black Saturday, just one person was killed. Experts and survivors attribute this to several improvements, but warn we must always remain vigilant.

The singer was swamped by fans at Albert Park on Saturday, but she wasn’t the only one to make a statement so far at the track this week. So did Jules Neale.

Police have provided an update on the killing of a man in Mernda overnight, as four teenagers await possible charges over the attack.

The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributors at The Age.