‘He will never grow up’: Jail for baby killer who tried to blame partner for death

Benjamin Swann deliberately caused a blunt-force trauma to baby Elijah’s head when he got up to settle the crying infant at a Werribee home last year.

Unreadable handwriting and unusual workings – assessors face more than a few challenges as they sort out what marks to give students around the state.

The man is among sex offenders who have committed violent crimes while on supervision orders but whose cases have been hidden from the public and protected by legislation.

A council’s legal bid to compel a developer to revegetate endangered grassland on an $11 million Melbourne property has been likened to the fight to rebuild the Corkman pub.

Around the state, girls’ schools are maintaining their academic edge in the latest secondary school results.

Extra police and protective security will begin 90 days of patrolling four major shopping centres amid a rise in violent retail crimes.

For many children, social media is the digital version of meeting up after school and on weekends. With platforms soon to be out of reach, families are facing tough conversations.

Readers urge the Albanese government to stand up to the gas industry for the sake of the planet.

Some of the country’s most beloved events are facing change next year.

A man has died after being stabbed in Ascot Vale on Sunday afternoon. Investigations are ongoing.

The bright-green Dixon Veloway has opened in Melbourne’s inner west to reduce the number of cyclists braving the truck-laden thoroughfare.

The Thornbury venue racked up more than $2 million in unpaid taxes including staff superannuation in just under five years.

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.

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

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.