Victoria News
Melbourne fire station up for grabs
A HISTORIC former inner-city fire station complete with original stables is on the market and has the potential for conversion into a residential stunner.
Underquoting fears real, probe finds
ALMOST two thirds of properties monitored by Victoria’s consumer watchdog in its year-long underquoting investigation sold for more than the agent’s estimated price.
Yarra Valley to become top-end food stop
EVERYONE told this ambitious developer he was made to plant grapevines for a vineyard on the side of a hill. But he’s turned it into a thriving business.
‘He knew he’d been had... he was terrified’
THE US special agents who orchestrated a sting which saw a Melbourne man jailed for 12 years for trying to have sex with a six-year-old boy have lifted the lid on their explosive investigation.
Bikie feud always only chance meeting away
THERE has been an uneasy ceasefire between the bikie gangs that call Dandenong their patch, but the fuse to reignite the feud was always only a chance meeting away.
Police miraculously revive lifeless baby
UPDATE: TWO police officers have miraculously revived a baby pulled lifeless from a river in Victoria’s northwest by performing resuscitation for almost an hour.
IBAC looking into land deal near TAFE farm
HAS Australia’s richest men been caught up in an allegedly secret property deal? Page 13 hears the alleged land deal has been referred to the state’s anti-corruption watchdog.
Star couple open up about secret grief
MEGAN Gale and Shaun Hampson have opened up about the public joy and private heartache they endured after the birth of their son, River.
Council wins award for handling mosque crisis
BENDIGO’S council has been honoured with a planning award for its handling of last year’s mosque crisis.
Pair charged over Werribee stabbing
A MAN and woman have been charged with attempted murder over a stabbing southwest of Melbourne last month.
Fresh hope in fight against fatty cravings
PEPPERMINT tea, menthol mouthwash and mint gum could hold the key to curbing cravings for fatty snacks, a new study has found.
Hospital slammed over toxic culture
The Royal Melbourne has a lot to be proud of—but not the ‘toxic bully’ culture revealed by former staff, writes JUSTIN SMITH.
Victorian farmers thinking outside the square
WHETHER it’s turning salty water into gourmet pink salt, uninspiring silos into lakeside accommodation, using our most reviled fish in animal supplements for export, Victoria’s country ingenuity is alive and well.
Brave cancer survivor aims to live life to full
FEW people would laugh about using up their superannuation too early but for Linda Wilson the prospect of outliving her nest egg is a dream worth celebrating.
Chefs in bun fight over Taste crown
Some of Melbourne’s best chefs are competing for the biggest bragging rights in town — the best dish at Taste of Melbourne food festival.
Illness probe into driveway deaths
AN elderly couple who died after being found with gunshot wounds in their parked car had been battling long term and serious illnesses.
Man found dead in squatters street
A MAN has been found dead at a house in the inner city street where squatters have occupied houses.
Court outburst as squatters ordered out
THE Government has won the right to kick squatters out of five East-West Link occupied properties in Clifton Hill and Parkville.
Don’t turn off Hazelwood lights yet
THE people of the Latrobe Valley have been thrown a potential lifeline with a Brisbane-based entrepreneur considering buying the Hazelwood power plant.
Jail to keep vigilante lovers apart
A HUSBAND and wife vigilante duo who took the law into their own hands when they bashed a man for “messing with their family” will spend years apart, in different jails.
Private primary schools boom
PARENTS are sending their children to private primary schools in record numbers, with 12,000 more attending than a decade ago.
Fed Square evacuated after gas leak
UPDATE: A GAS leak in Federation Square has led to more than 500 people, including schoolchildren and a group of elderly people, being evacuated.
A cracker Melbourne tradition that fizzled
CRACKERS and crackling bonfires used to be the order of the day for Victorians on November 5 each year. So what was it all about, and why did we stop celebrating it?
No reprieve for truckie who killed four
A LYING killer who wiped out four members of the same family in a horror crash has lost a bid to appeal his sentence.
Auction market canters after Cup slowdown
AUCTION numbers are set to spring back up in Melbourne, after the race that stops the nation slowed the property market last week.
How six RAAF men perished in 1962 disaster
A SIMPLE error may have led to the untimely deaths of six RAAF airmen in a tragic aerobatic accident in country Victoria more than 50 years ago.
Be alert and alarmed about plant closure
THE closure of the Hazelwood power station will have serious negative consequences for Victorians, including the very real threat of power shortages, writes Jeff Kennett.
Splinter group eyes title hat-trick
MELBOURNE’S Laurence O’Toole will be looking to cut off his competition to make woodchopping history.
Obama lookalike turns heads in Melbourne
UNITED States President Barack Obama flew into Melbourne yesterday, leaping aboard a tram and sitting patiently next to commuters. Or so it seemed ...
Woman and man dead after shooting
UPDATE: POLICE say they are not looking for anyone else after an elderly woman and man died in a shooting on the Mornington Peninsula yesterday.
Frightening mask used in store robbery
A MASKED man wearing a skeleton mask and armed with a knife is wanted by police following an armed robbery in Patterson Lakes yesterday morning.
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Cash restricted Call to return lost cash
MORELAND groups are still short of more than $30,000 of their money being held by the Federal Government despite calls to give it back to the community.
#SnapMelbourne Dusty stars join #SnapMelbourne
A LIT up city laneway, a plate of dumplings, great wine and great friends in a tiny bar — that would be actor Virginia Gay’s snapshot of Melbourne life.
Opera All hail the doomed queen
ANNE Boleyn, second wife of England’s King Henry VIII and familiar figure of history, is sanctified in glorious and dark dramatic form in Donizetti’s two-act opera from 1830, Anna Bolena, writes reviewer Paul Selar.
Peacetime tragedy How six RAAF men perished in 1962 disaster
A SIMPLE error may have led to the untimely deaths of six RAAF airmen in a tragic aerobatic accident in country Victoria more than 50 years ago.
Escalating violence Police on high alert for all-out bikie war
EXCLUSIVE: POLICE officers have been ordered to be on high alert as two bikie gangs get set for an all-out war in Victoria.
Attempted murder Pair charged over Werribee stabbing
A MAN and woman have been charged with attempted murder over a stabbing southwest of Melbourne last month.
Staff shaken Thief threatens workers with knife
A MAN who stole two knives from a store in Melbourne’s northwest threatened to use one to stab two young women working in the shop.
