What it feels like in the hottest place on the planet

The Mallee has broken Victoria’s heat record. But for the locals who have to live with extremely hot weather, it’s all part of life in the region.

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.

The estranged high-profile couple are now officially divorced, but their bitter court battle over defamation continues to unfold.

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

Rayann El Houli allegedly showed a video on a laptop to her toddler, appearing to feature IS fighters holding guns.

Footage obtained by this masthead shows the moment police say a man who tried to assault two dog walkers was pursued by their dogs.

Evidence to the antisemitism royal commission in Melbourne this week shows the scourge is clearly deeply affecting Jewish students and academics.

Yarra City Council claimed e-bike operator Lime is “taking the mickey” out of ratepayers by failing to punish illegal parking, footpath riding, and drunk users.

Readers are unsympathetic to some federal funding cuts to private schools.

The mother and grandfather of teenager Isla Bell, whose body was driven around Melbourne for days in a plastic-covered refrigerator, says the watering-down of charges is stripping Victorian crime victims of humanity.

He might be something like a ghost in Melbourne, but polarising ex-Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has been keeping powerful company in Sydney.

School staff have voted to walk off the job as ongoing negotiations with government fail to reach an agreement.

A Victorian woman is accused of molesting a 12-year-old boy in her class at a Catholic school in the state’s east over several months in the late 1990s.

As a lawyer who spent more than 50 years as The Age’s legal counsel, the shocking revelations about the Big Build bring to mind how we’ve broken the back of corruption in the past.

A senior member of “The Commission” has been arrested for allegedly ordering the crime spree that has terrorised the city, with police also revealing the crime gang’s new leader.

More than 30 firebombings, shootings, home invasions and kidnappings were linked to the crime spree that terrorised the city’s nightlife.

A truck fitted with digital billboards displaying political slogans and advertisements for a South Melbourne brothel has been taken off the streets by Victoria Police.

Federation Square hosted live sites for the Socceroos’ World Cup matches and even a live watch party for the Eurovision final – but the Commonwealth Games won’t be getting a run.

Readers argue that despite One Nation’s current popularity, its leaders’ priorities inspire little confidence.