‘Hefty kick in the knackers’: How a judge brought down an armed ‘Chopper’ Read

Mark Brandon Read and his sawn-off shotgun were no match for the boot of justice – a mother in her dressing gown hitting her son in a siege with her handbag. Stand-offs with the law don’t tend to end with the perpetrator getting what they want.

The prime minister’s announcement on data centres raises questions for readers.

If you disagree with something you read in our Opinion pages, good. That’s the idea.

Richard Irving was chief executive of one of the nation’s largest community sports clubs for almost 18 months, despite being charged with the online grooming of a 14-year-old girl for sex.

Justin Marks pleaded guilty to repeatedly sexually assaulting a student and grooming her over six weeks in a series of 14,000 messages.

A 44-year-old was arrested after an hour-long stand-off on Barkly Street. Police say they located imitation firearms at the scene.

Five trees were to be planted for every tree removed for the West Gate Tunnel, but council papers reveal a shortfall of thousands of trees. 

The new offer is a slight advance on the state government’s previous position of a 28 per cent increase over four years, but well short of original demands.

The new offer is a slight advance on the state government’s previous position of a 28 per cent increase over four years, but well short of original demands.

Police have closed a section of Barkly Street and are negotiating with a man in an abandoned property near the school.

The new offer is a slight advance on the government’s previous position of a 28 per cent increase over four years, but well short of teachers’ original demands.

Two years after his sacking, the former CFMEU official is among those still exerting influence within the union administration, as well as on government rail and road projects.

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

Andrew Fox, a director of Linfox Australia, reunited with some of F1’s inner circle aboard what looked like a superyacht, after hosting the group in Melbourne earlier in the year.

Ryan Meuleman is expected to make a bid for freedom later this month after earlier indicating he wanted to be released to partake in rehab.

A column on the pros and cons of Melbourne’s coffee has created a strong response from readers.

A missing person’s report details messages sent by Sally Contarino, 26, before she went missing in the US in June.

After two women and two girls were found dead in Australia last week, the children of one of the women, Melbourne mother Lavanya Chappa, will be returned to India with their aunt and uncle and their mother’s body next week.

A Victorian teenager accused of amassing a dossier of violent terrorist material will be released on bail. Prosecutors plan to appeal the judge’s decision.

Revised designs for the multibillion-dollar toll road show noise protection measures have been downgraded or scrapped altogether.

Victoria’s highest-ranking police officer wasn’t afraid to get back on the tools when the situation called for it.

Victoria’s highest-ranking police officer isn’t afraid to get back on the tools when the situation calls for it.

Victoria’s highest-ranking police officer wasn’t afraid to get back on the tools when the situation called for it.

After 10 years stuck in storage controversial bronze statues of some of Australia’s most iconic entertainers have finally found a home, but a long way from the CBD.

A CFMEU-backed plastering company run by two underworld and bikie gang-linked brothers has also helped deliver a social housing project opened by Premier Jacinta Allan.

Professor Jennifer Westacott will say that Australia experienced “a whole-of-nation failure to comprehend” the seriousness of rising antisemitism.

The division in means of accommodation shows a segregated society, say readers.

A man has used an archaic law against to lay private criminal charges against a rural council. The highly unusual move has prompted calls for urgent change

Victoria Police are investigating an attempted attack thwarted after the suspect was chased by the victims’ dogs.

The high-ranking member of organised crime gang “The Commission” charged with home invasion and kidnapping had only recently been set free from a sentence in youth detention.