Big Build is the gift that keeps on giving, for all the wrong reasons

We were told that privatising infrastructure would bring efficiency and taxpayer savings. Instead, it’s brought cost overruns, dubious characters, high salaries and huge profits.

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

The volatile former construction union boss is set to have his membership cancelled for an organisation he dominated for 12 years.

Readers respond with dismay to comments by Pauline Hanson on domestic violence.

Locals are fighting to stop the closure of the Don Bosco Hostel and Youth Centre in Brunswick which is up for sale.

With no date set for negotiations to resume, and details unclear on how the government can draw up a deal teachers will accept, more strikes could be on the way.

A quiet residential estate was crawling with heavily armed officers after a 43-year-old allegedly threatened police with a chainsaw.

A hazing culture at a prestigious regional school has been laid bare by a new report, despite boarders feeling pressured to keep quiet about the troubling claims.

The wife of media mogul Antony Catalano has filed a statement of no complaint with police about the alleged assault that left her with a broken tailbone, and is now accusing them of mistreating her.

The wife of media mogul Antony Catalano has filed a statement of no complaint with police about the alleged assault that left her with a broken tailbone, and is now accusing them of mistreating her.

Tens of thousands of government school teachers, principals and education support staff are set to converge on Melbourne’s CBD as part of a long-running campaign to boost pay and conditions.

Tens of thousands of government school teachers, principals and education support staff are set to converge on Melbourne’s CBD as part of a long-running campaign to boost pay and conditions.

The accusations from insiders come as a key expert has declared a royal commission-style inquiry is urgently needed to probe how so much public money ended up in the “wrong hands”.

The Duchess of Sussex, appearing as a guest judge on MasterChef Australia in an episode airing on Sunday night, reveals her and Prince Harry’s spicy side.

Readers respond to the stonewalling of the Premier Jacinta Alan over calls for a royal commission to the Big Build.

Up to 35,000 education staff are expected to march through Melbourne on Thursday after rejecting the government’s latest deal.

Charges have been withdrawn after Melbourne socialite Amy Tossoun completed a diversion plan, a court has confirmed.

A brief of evidence released by the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court shows the AFL great was lucky to escape with a small cut to his right arm and a slight wound to his chest.

Former rugby league player Garry Sullivan was allegedly linked to the 1994 shopping centre hold-up by DNA on a discarded glove.

A 55-year-old woman was found dead in Tarneit on May 13, Victoria Police said, and was initially misidentified as another woman of a similar age.

A 55-year-old woman was found dead in Tarneit on May 13, Victoria Police said, and was initially misidentified as another woman of a similar age.

Though the number of live music venues across the city has dropped by 20 per cent in five years, The Corner Hotel is celebrating a milestone few others have reached.

Melbourne’s international reputation has grown not because it has copied other cities, but because it offers one of the world’s richest and most distinctive urban experiences.

Victorian apartment buyers are forking out a “Gatto tax” as plastering, precast and other businesses allegedly pay gangland figure Mick Gatto for CFMEU-backed, privileged access to the high-rise housing sector.

Some fans of Leigh Sales’ podcast with Annabel Crabb were angered by the move.

Readers argue that Premier Jacinta Allan’s behaviour in the wake of numerous Big Build allegation suggest it’s time for her government to go.

Joseph Chetcuti used his semi-rural property as an illegal waste dump for trucks seeking to avoid paying landfill fees, defying orders to stop his activity.

Jesse Doree, 28, was charged after police allegedly uncovered bricks of cocaine with a total estimated street value of $100,000 at his home.

The killer was high on ketamine and was chasing his own son with a knife when he stabbed his neighbour to death.

A 15-year-old boy was stabbed when three hooded youths charged at him and two others as they walked home after school in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.