How Melbourne got its Metro Tunnel

After eight years and a total cost of $15 billion, the Metro Tunnel is opening. Find out all you need to know about the tunnel and how we got here.

The Cathy Wilcox cartoon from this week continues to draw reader response.

Those evacuated from the path of the Longwood bushfire huddled in caravans and vans, sheltering from the extreme heat, as they waited for news about their homes.

Emergency warnings have been issued for towns east of Seymour and for a bushfire burning east of Wodonga in the state’s far north-east.

Two bushfires are burning out of control in the state’s north, triggering emergency warnings and traffic closures. Keep up to date with the latest information here.

Those evacuated from the path of the Longwood bushfire huddled in caravans and vans, sheltering from the extreme heat, as they waited for news about their homes.

Emergency warnings have been issued for towns east of Seymour and for a bushfire burning east of Wodonga in the state’s far north-east.

Two bushfires are burning out of control in the state’s north, triggering emergency warnings and traffic closures. Keep up to date with the latest information here.

John Argento is accused of setting fire to several other vehicles and stealing from stores over a more than month-long crime spree.

Two bushfires are burning out of control in the state’s north, triggering emergency warnings and traffic closures. Keep up to date with the latest information here.

Emergency warnings have been issued for a number of towns east of Seymour and for a bushfire burning east of Wodonga in the state’s far north-east.

Two bushfires are burning out of control in the state’s north, triggering emergency warnings and traffic closures. Keep up to date with the latest information here.

Two bushfires are burning out of control in the state’s north, triggering emergency warnings and traffic closures. Keep up to date with the latest information here.

Two bushfires are burning out of control in the state’s north, triggering emergency warnings and traffic closures. Keep up to date with the latest information here.

A 74-kilometre stretch of the Hume is closed after the Longwood bushfire intensified overnight in the state’s north, which is bracing for another scorcher ahead of Friday’s catastrophic fire conditions.

A 74-kilometre stretch of the Hume is closed after the Longwood bushfire intensified overnight in the state’s north, which is bracing for another scorcher ahead of Friday’s catastrophic fire conditions.

Some of Victoria’s most vulnerable people are facing the closure of care homes after the NDIA refused to cover a funding shortfall.

Staff at Victoria’s larger regional hospitals are more likely to be physically and mentally exhausted than their peers at major urban trauma centres.

A cartoon by Age artist Cathy Wilcox on calls for a royal commission has drawn a varied response.

A cartoon by Age artist Cathy Wilcox on calls for a royal commission has drawn a varied response.

Keep up to date with the latest information as the city, and the state, experiences its worst heatwave since Black Summer.

All of the state faces either catastrophic or extreme fire conditions on Friday as the mercury soars.

Keep up to date with the latest information as the city, and the state, experiences its worst heatwave since Black Summer.

Keep up to date with the latest information as the city, and the state, experiences its worst heatwave since Black Summer.

Keep up to date with the latest information as the city, and the state, experiences its worst heatwave since Black Summer.

The former wife of late businessman Geoffrey Edelsten is accused of trafficking a commercial quantity of methamphetamine and possessing other drugs including ketamine.

Sorrento identity Julian Gerner has filed a burning summer lawsuit alleging the billionaire Smorgon family and its partners diddled him when they purchased the famed Continental Hotel five years ago.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors

Keep up to date with the latest information as the city, and the state, experiences its worst heatwave since Black Summer.

Keep up to date with the latest information as the city, and the state, experiences its worst heatwave since Black Summer.