Braille bombers boost city signage for the sight-impaired

“It’s like writing a tweet, counting all your characters but doing it backwards and in the mirror.” Participants of a Melbourne Knowledge Week event taught the “brain-challenging” art of braille in their bid to increase the number of accessibility signs.

Opting for bright colours from head to toe is 2022’s biggest trend, and it’s set to challenge Melbourne’s uniform of black, black and black.

Australian Medical Association in Victoria says the public needs to do more than required than the rules, to help ease ambulance ramping and hospital overcrowding.

Five floating wetlands will be created in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD as part of a larger scheme to return the river to a more natural state.

The former Jobs Warehouse in Bourke Street is transforming into Juliet’s Terrace, a hospitality venture that pays tribute to the area’s racy red-light past.

Age readers discuss the Coalition’s plan to allow first home buyers to tap into their superannuation.

Convicted murderer Bandali Debs has told a trial he fired the shot that killed a police officer in 1998 out of fear for his safety, and that lawyer Nicola Gobbo previously advised him to argue he acted in self-defence.

Freezing temperatures and overnight snow flurries are expected to create difficult conditions for a 70-year-old missing in Victoria’s High Country since Friday afternoon.

Floyd Hennessy, 22, deliberately swerved his car while a man was holding on to the roof, causing him to fall and dragging him to his death. The dead man’s partner says her life was ruined by the incident and the sentences weren’t enough.

Inspector Paul Hargreaves and SES commander Dan Walton update the media about the search for a missing man who was last seen near Dinner Plain on Friday afternoon.

Two years after Tash Tharmanason took her own life, her mum still struggles to comprehend the pressure the young doctor was under. So does the medical profession, as it confronts the alarming rate of suicide among young female doctors.

Floyd Hennessy, 22, deliberately swerved his car while a man was holding onto the roof, causing him to fall and dragging him to his death.

When parent Rishu Thapar found out his child’s coach is international soccer star Mineiro, he said: “Are you serious?”

Visitor restrictions were highlighted as an issue, but others say that they were necessary to keep vulnerable staff and patients safe.

Age readers discuss the suitability of Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese for the role of prime minister.

A search has resumed for a 70-year-old in Victoria’s High Country after he went looking for emus on Friday afternoon.

In 1968, 400 students staged a two-hour sit-in beside the Monash University administration building to protest proposed changes to the university’s disciplinary statutes.

How, as someone who professes a Christian faith, should I approach the election? The main priority is to consider other people.

Fundraiser cocktail parties, lunches and dinners raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, typically paid by property developers, lobbyists and sundry business figures to get close access to senior ministers and leaders from state and federal parliaments.

Age readers have their say.

A sharp spike in novel benzodiazepine overdoses is prompting fresh calls for pill testing, with a coroner fearing deaths will only rise unless urgent action is taken.

Three Indigenous names have been shortlisted for the council’s new title, including one meaning “rocky country”.

Two prominent real estate agents are in court waging a defamation battle after a company’s boss sent a negative all-staff email about another manager.

At age 49, Jaci Hicken, has started work as a cadet journalist, one of the brave souls trying a totally new career later in life.

Police have arrested 54 people as part of a major police operation over four nights targeting the state’s worst street gangs.

A Melbourne University student intends to launch legal action against the student union, demanding they rescind a controversial motion that called for the university to boycott Israel.

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

New rules will prevent derogatory names being given to places across Victoria amid a push to celebrate women and include more Aboriginal languages in the titles of new streets and suburbs.

Rising cases, new Omicron variants and colder, damper weather threaten to fuel an outbreak that could, some scientists say, spur a return of the mask mandate.

Age readers give their views on the major parties and climate change.