Compromise cuts Queen Vic tower height

The Planning Minister has slashed the height of a planned 66-storey tower Melbourne City Council wanted to build.

City's oldest shop-and-dwelling falling down, and owners ask for help to save it

The oldest shop-and-dwelling in Melbourne is falling down, and its 93-year-old owners have been told they need at least $30,000 to save it from collapse or be forced to leave.

Empty boxes are taking over the west

They are virtual miniature cities, rising up to seven storeys in the west. Now, a lobby group wants them gone.

Changing Sunbury a microcosm of Melbourne's rapid growth

Sunbury's population has topped 39,000 and it's not quite "the country" any more.

Melbourne now as clogged as Sydney

• EXCLUSIVE

Research has debunked some big Melbourne myths, including that Sydney's traffic is worse.

Traffic the unwinnable battle in city's poorly planned outer north

• Victoria's growing pains

When Nishtha​ Goel​ and husband Sunil moved to Epping six years ago, the family had great hopes for their suburb, and their careers.

West Gate Tunnel will jam traffic, slow trams: city council

The proposed West Gate Tunnel toll road will cause peak-hour traffic conditions for up to 14 hours a day in North Melbourne, funnel cars into the city centre and slow down trams, Melbourne City Council says.

Apartments to replace Goldrush-era pub but facade stays

The 150-year-old Great Western Hotel will be knocked down to make way for apartments.

A tale of three Melbournes

Victoria – all 5,926,624 of us – has grown at a thumping pace since the last time the Bureau of Statistics took the state's pulse.