‘Can we have more children, please?’ The $5.4 million school renovation sitting half-empty

This “state of the art” government school in Melbourne’s east is desperate for more children to teach.

Age readers respond to the impending social media ban for teenagers.

Police investigating an alleged arson attack on two sporting sites say they have now found a substantial amount of methamphetamine.

Outer-suburban residents generate 14 times more carbon emissions to get around than those in the inner city, according to research that shows better transport links between housing and jobs would cut emissions by 80 per cent.

Long suspected of taking part in a string of heinous crimes, the killer’s death is a “good thing”, according to one premier.

An attack on a 21-year-old mosque in Hoppers Crossing has sparked political condemnation.

Victoria’s education registration body unmasked 23 entities potentially operating unregistered, illegal schools after receiving more than two dozen complaints.

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

Local councils have rejected the fast food outlet at two separate sites, but opponents say a legal challenge is inevitable.

AGL-backed Gippsland Skies consortium is the third joint venture to walk away from early-stage studies for an offshore wind farm in Victoria.

The government’s ambitions have galloped far ahead of its capacity to pay for or properly deliver them.

The proposed changes to the State Library continue to prompt readers to react.

Interviewing candidates for our new role of visual stories trainee this week, I was struck by their passion. It’s easy to understand why.

Weddings, parties, anything: Your State Library is undertaking an alarming shift towards appealing to tourists and visitors over actual users.

AGL-backed Gippsland Skies consortium is the third joint venture to walk away from early-stage studies for an offshore wind farm in Victoria.

A doctored Uber receipt helped convict the young man of raping a woman in his family home.

The inside story of the Great Bookie Robbery has finally been told – and it lifts the lid on a very clever diversion.

Many victim-survivors are being traumatised by being wrongly targeted with intervention orders and other legal actions, sector experts say.

Last year, Nick Reece took a donation of $25,000 on the basis that it was not from a developer. Now, the City of Melbourne has approved its redevelopment proposal for a Melbourne landmark.

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

Age readers respond to proposed changes to the State Library.

Thousands of restrictive covenants that protect Melbourne neighbourhoods from greater density are set to be swept aside in the state government’s housing push.

Conduct breaches that led to the controversial sanction included not pausing for long enough during a debate, and the use of the word “duplicitousness”.

International Jewish leaders have been told Australia has suffered the world’s most dramatic rise in the percentage of hate incidents against Jews during the past two years.

“There needs to be a bit of restorative justice in this case towards the Jewish community,” the magistrate said at a pre-sentence hearing for Damien Richardson.

According to a new review, Victoria spends more on health per capita than NSW, despite having a smaller population.

Police have charged Joshua Brown with another 83 offences after identifying another four alleged victims at three new daycare centres.

The two men alleged to be behind the Adass Israel Synagogue firebombing appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court days before the one-year anniversary of the attack.

Melbourne’s new underground rail line has now been open for five days. Here’s what’s good, what’s bad and what could be improved about the Metro Tunnel.

One of the state’s fastest growing schools is one of the state’s top performing in this year’s NAPLAN results.