A $60-million multi-functional park in Melbourne's inner south-east promises to provide desperately needed open space as the city grapples with population growth.
Stephen Asling is found guilty of the murder of the gangland figure known as 'The Munster', an act the court heard was ordered by underworld kingpin Carl Williams.
The troubled Geelong City Council is likely to go to election in October and elected councillors will nominate a mayor, after the Victorian Government announced it supported recommendations from a group of local residents.
The "clumsy" use of restraints and handcuffs have injured children in Victoria's troubled juvenile jails, a parliamentary committee is told, while lockdowns were so frequent some detainees were uncertain when they were allowed to leave their rooms.
Victoria Police is accused of defying magistrates' rulings and misusing the state's new night court system amid revelations a man is unlawfully held by police for a week on an unlicensed driving charge.
A man who sped through a red light in a stolen car and fatally ran down 24-year-old Tanami Nayler (pictured) is sentenced to 11 years in jail, with a non-parole period of seven years.
Leading horse trainers Danny O'Brien and Mark Kavanagh win an appeal against their doping bans as a Victorian tribunal rules Racing Victoria did not follow proper testing protocols.
He has played 338 NRL matches but kicking the winning conversion never gets old for Melbourne captain Cameron Smith, as he ices the Storm's victory over the Broncos.
As research suggests homelessness is costing Victoria $194 million a year, we speak to some of the hundreds of people sleeping rough on Melbourne's streets about how they ended up there and what they do with their days.
Many of Melbourne's apartment blocks depend entirely on air conditioning for cooling and fail to meet overheating tests adhered to across Europe and the US, researchers find.
A Melbourne woman is sentenced to 17 years' jail, with a non-parole period of 13 years, for stabbing her housemate to death with his own boning knife after he refused to give her money to buy cigarettes.
The cost of homelessness is quantified for the first time and a study finds it is cheaper to provide last-resort housing for the homeless rather than allowing them to sleep rough.
Victoria emerges relatively unscathed from this year's bushfire season but authorities warn the danger is not over yet with more warm weather forecast.
A woman who killed her 14-month-old daughter in Melbourne's north-east pleads not guilty to murder, with lawyers arguing her postnatal depression pointed to infanticide.
