Police union slams Victoria's child bail changes

Angus Livingston and Melissa Meehan 10:35 PM   Teenage gang members are exempt from charges of breaching bail if they break curfew or flout their conditions and Victoria's police and opposition say it sends the wrong message.

Ex-cop faces drug trafficking charge after raids dismantle syndicate

Tammy Mills 7:57 PM   A former Victorian police officer who allegedly became a trusted member of a criminal syndicate that traded in drugs and guns has been charged with several offences, including commercial trafficking.

White Ribbon advocate found dead

Toni Brient, Tom Cowie 6:46 PM   A woman found dead in her Mildura home at the weekend worked at the local council where she was a White Ribbon advocate.

Victim recovers after being struck during Spencer Street car theft

Larissa Ham 6:43 PM   A road worker who had his work ute stolen from a work site in Melbourne's CBD early Monday morning - and was hit as the thief drove off in it - has been discharged from hospital.

'They want to be pseudo private': principal on the way schools pick students

6:15 PM   On the surface, it seems harmless.

Bodies beneath Queen Victoria Market could unearth treasures from our past

Aisha Dow 6:12 PM   A Melbourne archaeologist has urged authorities to allow experts to examine bodies unearthed from the Old Melbourne Cemetery during the $250million Queen Victoria Market revamp.

Teen charged after Somerville sports stadium destroyed by fire

Larissa Ham 6:04 PM   A 14-year girl has been charged with criminal damage by fire after a blaze destroyed a Somerville sports stadium early Sunday morning.

Storms, monster waves on the way as wild weather rolls in

Darren Gray 5:45 PM   Thought Sunday's storms were rough? Well there's worse to come - and soon - with the SES predicting chaos on Tuesday with winds of 100km/h and seas topping seven metres.

Women avoid pro-life protesters for the first time in decades

Beau Donelly 5:32 PM   For the first time in three decades, women have accessed the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne without first being forced to run the gauntlet.

ASIO believed Haider wanted to fight in Syria: court documents

Adam Cooper 5:31 PM   Australia's national security service believed Numan Haider was intent on fighting in Syria for Islamic State months before he stabbed two policemen in Melbourne.

Fire damages Victoria's oldest Greek Orthodox Church

Larissa Ham 5:15 PM   Firefighters have extinguished a blaze at Victoria's oldest Greek Orthodox Church, which left the building with 'extensive' damage.

Mr Antonio (Tony) Madafferi

12:15 AM   Since March 2014, The Age and Fairfax Media Pty Ltd have published a series of articles by Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker, Royce Millar and Josh Gordon concerning Mr Antonio (Tony) Madafferi.

2016 federal budget: Turnbull says no to funding biomedical research centre

Bridie Smith 4:56 PM   The promise of a new centre for biomedical engineering based in Melbourne hangs in the balance after the federal government refused a request from the Andrews government for $60 million.

White flight: race segregation in Melbourne state schools

Timna Jacks 4:47 PM   Natalie Sims was told not to send her son Daniel to Fitzroy Primary.

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Poor parents shut out of schools in competitive state system

Timna Jacks and Henrietta Cook 4:46 PM   Tigist Desta doesn't have it easy.

Call for law changes after appeal fails against hoon driver's jail term

Adam Cooper 4:44 PM   Two families devastated by a hoon driver's actions want changes to sentencing laws for crimes committed by motorists, after a failed appeal to have the man's prison term increased.

Shake up looms for Akta-Vite after family firm buys back Aussie icon

Marc Moncrief 3:50 PM   They sold it to American frozen-food empire Sara Lee in the 80s, but now the NIcholas family have retaken control of the ridgey-didge, 100% Aussie, chocolate milk.

Accused son ordered to provide DNA samples

Adam Cooper 2:33 PM   Man accused of murdering his elderly mother in her home has been ordered by a magistrate to provide saliva samples to police.

Power out in Richmond, police on the scene

Melissa Singer, Liam Mannix 1:34 PM   Workers seeking a lunchtime coffee found it hard to come by after power outage hit Richmond.

Can food porn be art? Making an exhibition of meal boasting

Carolyn Webb 12:45 PM   Do you photograph your meals at restaurants? Melbourne's first Food Porn Festival celebrates the once pesky practice.

Olympic wrestler on horse cruelty charge wants his dog back, court hears

Liam Mannix 11:54 AM   On bail over 92 counts of animal cruelty at a Victorian property where dozens of dead or emaciated horses were found, Bruce Akers asked magistrate to return his pet dog.

Unique Schindler artefact donated to Holocaust museum

Carolyn Webb 11:52 AM   The model for the gold ring that Jewish workers gave World War II hero Oskar Schindler has been donated to Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre.

Man who killed father 'on God's orders' gets 25 years in psychiatric ward

Mark Russell 11:11 AM   Mentally ill man who killed his elderly father with a claw hammer has been ordered to spend up to 25 years in a maximum security hospital.

Cold, damp and windy - weather returns to normal

Daniella Miletic 10:49 AM   After the weirdly warm start to autumn, Melburnians have woken to a bone-numbing morning and a May Day warning that, finally, winter is coming

Man arrested after death of woman in Mildura

Tom Cowie, Toni Brient 10:04 AM   A 36-year-old man was arrested in Cardross, near Mildura after a woman's body was found in a home on Sunday night.

Melbourne Express: Monday, May 2, 2016

Deborah Gough 9:44 AM   Kick-start your day with live news, travel updates, weather and more.

Melbourne weather: Wild storms lash city

Allison Worrall, Deborah Gough 7:53 AM   Wild storms swept across Melbourne in the early hours of Sunday morning, with wind gusts of up to 107km/h and impressive lighting displays across the city.