Contract killer Stephen John Asling, who murdered Melbourne gangland figure Graham "The Munster" Kinniburgh on the orders of Carl Williams, is sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 27 years.
Players from Melbourne will head to Spain next month, where they will compete against 11 other nations in the inaugural international blind tennis tournament.
After more than 50 years of growing and harvesting celery on the outskirts of Melbourne, skyrocketing land values sees the Schreurs family relocating their cherished farm.
A heritage-listed RSL club in Melbourne's north-east is destroyed by fire in a tragic turn of events just days before Anzac Day, with its 95-year-old president too upset to inspect the damage.
Victorian police use a Taser and capsicum spray to arrest a man and woman after they crash a luxury sports car, with suspected stolen number plates, into two patrol vehicles after a pursuit in Melbourne's inner east.
The dream of owning a home is getting more difficult in Melbourne, where population growth, low stock, low interest rates and strong demand have pushed the median house price to a record high of $826,000.
Victims of child sexual abuse raise concerns with the Australian Federal Police and the royal commission into child sexual abuse about evidence presented by a senior Melbourne rabbi last month, alleging it may be misleading.
Annie Belcher, 26, says she does not fit many of the the stereotypes of a yoga teacher: "I'm not vegan, I don't get into chakras and god and all the mythology." The Master of Community Psychology student says yoga is just "psychology done really well".
Jordy Smith surfed four heats in one day on his way to winning the World Surf League's event at Bells Beach, and becomes the first South African to do so.
Victorian MPs would be forced to repay any wrongfully claimed taxpayer-funded allowances under a sweeping overhaul of the system recommended by parliamentary auditors.
A 41-year-old man who was shot outside a mosque in Coburg in Melbourne's northern suburbs has links to the Comancheros outlaw bikie gang and Middle Eastern organised crime, Victoria Police say.
The man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens of pedestrians during a driving rampage through Melbourne's Bourke Street mall tells a court he is "the saviour".
A five-year-old boy who was critically injured when he fell from a carnival ride on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula may have been on the ride after the carnival had closed, WorkSafe says.
Australia was declared measles-free in 2014, but imported cases are still sometimes diagnosed. So, what does it do to your body, and what sort of threat can it pose to the population?
A young boy is treated for critical injuries and airlifted to hospital after falling off a carnival ride, reportedly the Cha Cha, at Rye on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.
It was Geelong against Hawthorn, but not as we knew it — and the Cats' massive win signals the end of an era for both the Hawks and a famous AFL rivalry.
