Restaurant tycoons

The Age’s series on the people who make Melbourne’s restaurant scene tick.

With events including live music performances and a mobile petting zoo, this local sub-branch is attracting new customers of all ages.

Mykey O’Halloran and fellow volunteers run a pop-up hair colouring salon in a remote Northern Territory Indigenous community.

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

After surviving a family split and devastating fire, Stokehouse has marked Melburnians’ special occasions for more than 35 years. Now, a new generation is taking the lead.

Cost blowouts are expected on Victoria’s Big Build, according to analysts and ratings agencies, as the global fuel shock triggers widespread economic fallout.

A $100 million sports and aquatics complex, a $55 million humanities building: what Melbourne’s private schools are spending on their new facilities.

Readers argue that as the state election approaches, Premier Jacinta Allan must tell Victorians which promised infrastructure projects will proceed in light of the “Big Build” cost blowouts.

Jet fuel prices have doubled within a fortnight, leading many Melburnians to alter or pause plans for international travel as airfares surge.

A 25-year-old woman from Mount Waverley remains in a serious but stable condition in hospital after being attacked while walking through a mall in Clayton on Thursday morning.

A grieving brother has vowed to honour his late sister by fulfilling her lifelong wish of starting an orphanage in Sri Lanka, where they were born and grew up.

The incident comes amid skyrocketing petrol costs and a cost-of-living crisis.

A Melbourne lawyer was convicted and fined $1500 after pleading guilty to a raft of drug and driving offences and also faces the prospect of being banned from practising law.

Former homicide detective Sol Solomon recounts the hunt for killers in the cases that have shocked and haunted him.

Police say they’ve busted a syndicate which stole hundreds of high-end vehicles worth more than $20m and shipped them to the Middle East.

A turf war has erupted between GPs and pharmacists over changes that allow patients to get the pill from pharmacies without a doctor’s script.

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

Readers argue that Trump’s war in the Middle East is his doing and Anthony Albanese should have immediately distanced himself from it.

Households can expect to pay more for milk, meat and maybe medicines and electronics because of war in the Middle East.

In the middle of an otherwise orderly bluestone-and-glass corridor on Southbank Promenade sits a giant, slightly odd, bright red staircase that leads to nowhere.

After keeping a low profile at the start of the year following her expenses scandal, Anika Wells is back in event mode, rubbing shoulders with Queen Mary.

The only person alleged blackmailer Joel Leavitt is permitted to travel with under his bail conditions is a suspected Bandidos motorcycle gang chapter president, a court has heard.

A teenager has allegedly randomly stabbed a woman, and a man has been hospitalised after Melbourne’s second shooting this week.

During a rainy late-night patrol, The Age got a front-row seat to Melbourne’s youth crime crisis in the city’s west.

A teenager has allegedly randomly stabbed a woman, and a man has been hospitalised after Melbourne’s second shooting this week.

A teenager has allegedly randomly stabbed a woman, and a man has been hospitalised after Melbourne’s second shooting this week.

A woman found unconscious in a burning home is fighting for her life in hospital after the Roxburgh Park blaze.

The growth of crime in Victoria is slowing after several years of sharp increases, but a meaningful reduction in crime is unlikely to happen any time soon.

Boxed deliveries from the Australian Hotel Association’s Victorian branch to some MPs to mark St Patrick’s Day drew the ire of Ellen Sandell.

It took regulators three years to investigate and close the service after warnings about the state of the home were first raised in March 2023.