• Julia Medew

The world's HIV pandemic could be wiped out by a revolutionary preventative pill, but investment in the class of drugs involved is likely to be blocked by discriminatory attitudes towards homosexuals, sex workers and drug users, a top scientist says.

• Tammy Mills, Daniella Miletic, Chloe Booker

The badly burnt body of a woman found on a beach in Melbourne's south-west is not being treated as suspicious, police say.

• Nick Toscano, Alexandra Laskie

The husband of missing Melbourne woman Karen Ristevski has been questioned over her disappearance.

• Beau Donelly

A father jailed for violently attacking his sons was accidentally handed a confidential court report containing the exact location of the other children removed from his care.

• Josh Gordon

State Labor's flagship back to work scheme has been sent to the state's financial watchdog after claims the $100 million job creation fund has been rorted.

• Clay Lucas and Aisha Dow

Not so long ago, they say Melbourne was at risk of becoming a "doughnut city" – a sprawling metropolis with a dead centre, because it emptied of people after business hours as city workers scurried home to the suburbs.

• Daniella Miletic

Recruitment agency staff accused of threatening and abusive behaviour at Mt Buller ski lodge.

• Daniella Miletic, Nick Toscano

Melbourne will feel as cold as zero degrees in coming days, as storms causing thunder, hail and snow come charging towards south-eastern Australia.

• Christiane Barro

All job interviews can be nerve wracking, but the applicants who queued from 6am to apply for a job at a boutique hotel on Monday had to face a particularly daunting challenge.

• Nick Toscano

A police operation is under way in Melbourne's outer-east after a man's body was found floating in a creek.

• Adam Carey

Southbank promenade, the Haymarket "roundabout of death" and Swanston Street's shared path are Melbourne's most intimidating places to ride, according to cyclists.

• Adam Cooper

Four men once famed among Victoria's greyhound racing industry have indicated they will plead guilty to animal cruelty offences over the use of live rabbits and pigs to bait dogs to run faster.

• Melissa Meehan

A push to extend the zero blood alcohol limit to all drivers under 26 has pitted the roads minister against Victoria's most senior traffic police officer.

• Chloe Booker

The mother of the missing Latta children has handed herself and the three sisters into police.

• Liam Mannix, Adam Holmes

A man who stabbed his neighbour more than 24 times and then shot the victim's parents has lost a bid to change his plea of guilty to the murder charges against him.

• Daniella Miletic

Shots have been fired at a South Melbourne gym on Monday morning, according to media reports.

• Daniella Miletic

A 15-year-old boy has been taken to hospital and two police cars have been damaged after a dramatic car chase that started in Point Cook in Melbourne's west and ended an hour later in Carlton.

• Carolyn Webb

Opera 'without the boring bits' will see Melbourne strip club dancer take to the stage with classically-trained singers for cabaret-style version of Verdi's 'La Traviata'.

• Daniella Miletic

Police are hunting a man who pretended to be sifting through a woman's hard rubbish pile before he pushed her into his car and sexually assaulted her.