Neelima Choahan is a journalist at The Age, covering general news and is passionate about social issues.
A teenager who was crushed in the Falls Festival stampede has described being covered in someone else's blood and urine while being suffocated under about 15 people.
Worksafe has blamed bottle-necks at exits and insecure fencing for the stampede at Falls Festival, with one doctor saying he was amazed no one was killed.
Elwood Street residents are cleaning up after Thursday's wild storms saw water rush into their homes even while they expect more floods in the future.
Swimmers have been urged to stay away from some of Melbourne's most popular beaches after Thursday's torrential downpour caused sewage and built-up pollution to stream into Port Phillip Bay.
A new purpose-built New York-style, blast-proof and ram raid-proof building in Melbourne CBD will be the "nerve centre" of Victoria Police when construction finishes in 2020.
Victorians charities are spending millions of dollars each year cleaning up goods dumped outside their shops.
Melbourne has had a hottest Christmas Day in 18 years, with the temperature topping at 36.3 degrees at 4.30pm today.
A grass fire that burned close to homes in Melbourne's outer northwest has been deemed suspicious.
A toddler has survived after nearly drowning at Rye beach on Christmas Day.
A 33-year-old woman has been charged with murder over the death of a man at a Kangaroo Flat home on Christmas Eve.
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