Melbourne

Lisa Saddington trying to cross busy Bulla Road with her children Darcy and Abbey.

Billions promised for transport, but Lisa just wants to cross the road

Lisa Saddington says trying to cross the busy road near her home in Melbourne’s outer north-west is like playing Frogger, the classic 1980s video game with the tagline “leap for your life”.

by Patrick Hatch

Australia’s plastics consumption, use, reuse and recycling faces massive challenges.

Recycling soft plastic is notoriously tricky, but these companies are looking for answers

by Tom Cowie

Isolating after testing positive to COVID is difficult enough, but more tricky for single people.

Opinion

Finding connection in COVID isolation

by Maida Pineda

A second child has been taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Updated

Child dies after being trapped by garage door

by Najma Sambul

‘We tried to save him’: Man dies after being crushed by truck tailgate

by Najma Sambul

Transport

Gabrielle de Vietri (Greens), Roz Ward (Victorian Socialists), and Lauren O’Dwyer (Labor) at the Cherry Tree Hotel on Wednesday night.

Tiny suburb a barometer of Melbourne’s transport challenges

by Bianca Hall

All new homes and renovations over $50,000 will have to meet higher energy efficiency standards from next October.

Exclusive

The suburbs that will suffer most from Melbourne’s planning failure

by Patrick Hatch

Coalition’s $2 fares would cost state twice as much as claimed, says government

by Patrick Hatch

Corflutes line the level crossing just next to the Melton train Station, Melton South.

Is Melton going to break Labor’s ‘wall’ in the west?

by Rachael Dexter

Crime & Courts

Katie Perinovic, 42, was found dead with her three children aged 3, 5, and 7 at their Tullamarine home.

Father tells court of tragic loss after finding wife and children dead in murder-suicide

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by David Estcourt

Paul Virgona was shot dead while driving along EastLink.

Targeted fruiterer had no links to crime, murder trial told

by Erin Pearson

Porsche driver Richard Pusey found guilty over offensive photos

by Karen Sweeney

Rhiannon Kurban wants access to the affidavit that was used to obtain the search warrant to raid her home.

Exclusive

Drug conviction overturned after police lied to get search warrant

by Cameron Houston

Local council

‘If local government were the Wild West’: Darebin councillor suspended after misconduct ruling

by Cara Waters

Justin Hanney’s fundraising page on the Australian Sports Foundation’s website to raise funds for the yacht he co-owns with Nick Foa.

Exclusive

VicTrack boss was secret $13k donor in yacht race online fundraiser

by Patrick Hatch and Cara Waters

It cost a small fortune to restore the diving tower at Melbourne’s Harold Holt Swim Centre to its former glory, but swimmers won’t get the thrill of climbing it and plunging into the water below.

Millions spent to save diving facility with tower that no one can jump off

by Cara Waters

Candidate Lucas Moon on the hustings in Gertrude Street, Collingwood.

October 31

Liberal candidate threatened with enforcement action for campaigning

by Bianca Hall

The investigation into former Chity of Melbourne chief executive Justin Hanney is being kept confidential.

City of Melbourne refuses to release results of investigation into former CEO

by Cara Waters

A donations investigation into Justin Hanney is ongoing.

A confidential meeting and a council backflip: Why City of Melbourne CEO is leaving immediately

by Rachael Dexter and Cara Waters

City life

Steve Raskovy an Olympian competing in wrestling during 1964 Olympics and Murray Rose four-time medallist in 1956.

From the Archives, 1997: Melbourne celebrates Olympic heroes past

25 years ago: It had been a long time between Olympic celebrations in Melbourne, but many of the 1956 Olympic veterans turned out to join past and future Olympians in the final leg of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Journey Parade along Swanston Street.

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by Jacquelin Magnay

CBD

City life

G’day sports(wash), welcome to Saudi Australia

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas was proud to announce on Monday that Adelaide would host the first Australian leg of the rebel LIV Golf Invitational Series, Saudi Arabia’s latest exercise in sportswashing.