Watch: How Melbourne got its Metro Tunnel

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

Remains have been found buried at a property in Melbourne’s north-west.

Details of the killing of two children are revealed for the first time as police say left hands are being severed in youth gang violence.

Barassi passed away at her St Kilda home, “as she wished”, her family announced.

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after a man was allegedly stabbed to death in Melbourne’s inner north-west on Sunday.

Shortly after her catastrophic freebirth, paramedics found an “agitated” Stacey Warnecke lying on the floor next to her birthing pool in a small, dark room, a court has heard.

To date, the 2024 exam breach has cost taxpayers more than $890,000.

Even under the most forgiving economic settings, the Melbourne Metro Tunnel now hangs by a thread of economic viability. Why? Because we don’t take trains so much any more.

Victorians may never know just how much it cost the state for Labor MPs to maintain the illusion that the huge project is ahead of schedule.

Everyone under 16 is now forbidden from using social media platforms. Will it mean less screen time – or creative ways to get around the law?

Readers have strong opinions about Barnaby Joyce’s move to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.

Admissions centre admits it supplied “misclassified” student information to universities offering scholarships.

Victoria Police said officers were called to a property on Houghton Place in Rosanna for a welfare check about 11.20am on Tuesday.

Premier Jacinta Allan has formally apologised to Victoria's First Peoples for the impact of colonisation.

A woman has died after a truck rolled into a pole, causing the pole to fall and land on a car driving in the other direction. 

A doctor whose patient was seriously injured when an out-of-control car ploughed into his surgery says he has been overwhelmed by the support from his local community.

Just over a year into his term as lord mayor of Melbourne, Nick Reece says his greatest success has been in an area not usually within the council’s remit.

A doctor whose patient was seriously injured when an out-of-control car ploughed into his surgery says he has been overwhelmed by the support from his local community.

The teenager was treated but died at the scene in Diamond Creek at about 10pm on Monday.

Crown prosecutor Meredith Hunt was devastated when her VCE results were well below what she needed. But like a growing number of students, she didn’t let this quash her dreams.

More than 30 antisemitic incidents were recorded in 2024, including students performing Nazi salutes, drawing hate symbols and verbally harassing peers.

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Students, researchers and scholars want to use the library in different ways – hiring out the spaces and evolving its services are necessary if it is to survive as a temple of engagement.

You’ve probably never heard of this place. And what’s with locals calling it a village? But you have to admit it has charm.

You’ve probably never heard of this place. And what’s with locals calling it a village? But you have to admit it has charm.

After a wrong turn off the Tulla freeway on the way to the airport, you’re lost. You think you might be in a suburb whose reputation has you nervously looking for knives.

The rise of for-profit chains means the government now has to hunt “bad faith” providers through a complicated chain of company names, an inquiry has heard.

Melbourne businessman Gregory O’Shea has declared himself bankrupt as a conga line of creditors pursue his collapsed freight company.

A male pedestrian has died in Melbourne’s north-west after a car crashed into a medical centre and badly injured a woman inside.

A male pedestrian has died in Melbourne’s north-west after a car lost control and crashed into a medical centre, badly injuring a woman inside.