Morning showers ahead for drenched city, big falls for state's north

Melburnians and tennis-goers best have their umbrellas ready on Friday, with the rain that battered Victoria on Thursday night set to ease but not disappear entirely ahead of the weekend.

Severe weather warning issued for Melbourne, half of Victoria

A severe weather warning has been issued for half of Victoria on Friday, with heavy rain forecast from Melbourne to the South Australian border.

Meet the Flinders Street Station rough sleepers

The homeless camp outside Flinders Street Station has been the subject of growing attention this week. These are some of the rough sleepers who are staying there.

Eight now dead from thunderstorm asthma

Another two people have died in the wake of last week's "thunderstorm asthma" outbreak, bringing the death toll for the freak weather event to eight.

Third person confirmed dead in wake of 'thunderstorm asthma' outbreak

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Three people have lost their lives in the unprecedented thunderstorm asthma epidemic which struck Melbourne on Monday.

For Irish expats, the pipes of home are calling

By the time Liam Lenihan graduated from university as a town planner in 2009, the boom years were over. Ireland was tumbling into recession.

A third of Victorians do not support gender equality: report

A third of Victorians do not support gender equality and six out of 10 women feel unsafe walking alone at night, according to a wide-ranging wellbeing study.

15 Bendigo councillors called to VCAT hearing on obscene tweet

An appeal by a former Bendigo councillor against a ruling that she apologise for an obscene tweet will likely be delayed until next year

Could this be the place for a treaty?

Almost 200 years after white settlers gave the Wurundjeri people blankets, tomahawks and flour in exchange for the land where Melbourne now stands, a group of Indigenous elders are talking treaty.