Brunswick East homes evacuated after major gas leak

Homes in Brunswick East have been evacuated following a major gas leak in a suburban area.

Child rapist Christopher Austin escapes from Fairfield treatment facility

Police are on the hunt for a registered sex offender with "an appalling criminal history" who absconded from a Melbourne residential treatment facility on Tuesday evening.

'Our hearts all sunk': Year 12 student dies in storm asthma disaster

The 18-year-old was only a few days away from graduating high school, when the storm rolled in.

Mt Waverley's big pit to be re-dug as builders' plans revised upwards

The developer facing disciplinary action over the collapse of a major excavation pit is planning to bring the diggers back again after applying to construct an even larger building on the same site.

'Hospitals at breaking point': Two dead after 'thunderstorm asthma' triggers disaster response

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Two people from Melbourne's west have died, including one man forced to wait at least half an hour for an ambulance, after an unprecedented number of people fell acutely sick on Monday evening, in what is believed to be a mass incident of 'thunderstorm asthma'.

Emergency services declare 'major disaster' after mass 'thunderstorm asthma' event

Hospitals across Victoria have been left reeling after an unprecedented number of people suddenly fell acutely sick on Monday evening, in what is believed to be a mass incident of "thunderstorm asthma".

The homeless man charged over 15 cents

It sounds like a scene ripped out of a Charles Dickens novel; a homeless man standing in court charged over a few silver coins.

Secretive, expensive, chaotic: elections expose what's wrong with local councils

Melburnians are heading to the polls in one of the most dysfunctional rounds of local government elections since the Kennett government's reform of the sector in 1994.

Rates, roads and religion

Perhaps it was the police officers stationed at the door, or the outright ban on public questions and photographs – but the air rippled with tension at Narre Warren's council chamber the night the mosque was rejected.