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St Kilda’s Palais Theatre.

City life

How St Kilda remains St Kilda against all odds

St Kilda is a place constantly in transition. While cash is flowing into the bayside suburb, it’s also an area that locals will fight doggedly to protect.

by Cara Waters

Traffic camera footage of the dark-coloured Nissan Patrol.

Missing campers trial

Alleged murderer changed colour of his 4WD after deaths, court hears

by Erin Pearson

The Austin Hospital in Heidelberg.

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Healthcare

Heart surgery suspended at Melbourne hospital after second equipment failure

by Jewel Topsfield

Motorists are travelling through the busy Burnley Tunnel a minute quicker since the installation of moving lights that trigger a driver’s instinct to flee, CityLink operator Transurban says.

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Roads

The AI light trick triggering your primal survival instincts to drive faster

by Patrick Hatch

Melbourne teacher Allison Nally is one of a growing number of Victorias who are living in a building with defects. She has been told she will have to pay $60,000 by July 1 for repairs on her faulty apartment building and has already had window frames and other elements of her one bedroom replaced.

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Cladding crisis

High hopes, low quality: special levies and repairs plague new apartment owners

by Melissa Cunningham

Transport

Electric bike and scooter riders are getting lost on CityLink’s roads and tunnels at least twice a week, with the bulk of them being food delivery workers. — 1:41

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Motorists are travelling through the busy Burnley Tunnel a minute quicker since the installation of moving lights that trigger a driver’s instinct to flee, CityLink operator Transurban says.

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Roads

The AI light trick triggering your primal survival instincts to drive faster

by Patrick Hatch

An artist’s impression of a proposed elevated rail station at Melbourne Airport. It remains in limbo.

Public transport

Melbourne Airport accused of greed, protecting parking revenue in rail link stoush

by Rachel Eddie

Vivy Li stands outside the disused old Box Hill Brickworks site with her dog Leo.

Local council

The two suburbs due to lose 15 MCGs of open space to Victoria’s Big Build

by Sophie Aubrey

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Crime & Courts

Days gone by: Jim and Phil Krakouer were two of the AFL’s most exciting players in the AFL in the 1980s.

Courts

AFL racism case may become ‘juggernaut out of control’ with clubs added, judge says

by David Estcourt

A crime scene photograph of Bucks Camp shown to the jury in Greg Lynn’s murder trial in the Supreme Court of Victoria.

Missing campers trial

Two years after Carol Clay was shot in the head, police found a skull fragment

by Erin Pearson

Sam Abdulrahim

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Crime

‘The Punisher’ targeted in second hit attempt after trying to muscle in on illicit tobacco trade

by Chris Vedelago, Marta Pascual Juanola, Nick McKenzie and Alex Crowe

Marlon Brando in The Godfather.

Analysis

Naked City

Why ego should be a gangster’s dirty word

by John Silvester

Local council

Moonee Ponds local Haylin Nunez and her 18-month-old daughter Cecilia Nunez enjoy a morning out at Queens Park.

City life

They call it ‘MoPo’: Dame Edna’s hidden gem of the north is changing

by Rachael Dexter

Box Hill residents are critical of the lack of plans for open space by the Suburban Rail Loop Authority.

Local council

The two suburbs due to lose 15 MCGs of open space to Victoria’s Big Build

by Sophie Aubrey

Australian adult industry entrepreneur Maxine Fensom.

CBD

Sex appeal: Epic adult industry court case set for another round

by Noel Towell and Colin Kruger

Lord Mayor Sally Capp announcing her final City of Melbourne budget at the Town Hall on Tuesday.

City life

Greenline project’s future in doubt as council funding dries up

by Cara Waters and Sophie Aubrey

Developer Frank Days in one of the rooms of a rooming house development in Melton.

City life

When is a room a studio apartment? The ruling upending boarding houses

by Rachael Dexter

Harriet Gledhill

City life

Drivers are ‘fighting in the streets’ over a lack of parking spaces

by Sophie Aubrey

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City life

St Kilda’s Palais Theatre.

City life

How St Kilda remains St Kilda against all odds

St Kilda is a place constantly in transition. While cash is flowing into the bayside suburb, it’s also an area that locals will fight doggedly to protect.

by Cara Waters

City life

The radical ideas to stop the bulldozing of Melbourne’s public housing towers

Architects and students have dozens of ideas of how Melbourne’s public housing towers can be revitalised and saved.

by Tom Cowie and Rachael Dexter

Graffiti by 70K crew on Melbourne train.

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Courts

Inside Melbourne’s ‘graffiti war’ and the crew that took police 20 years to crack

by David Estcourt

A beautiful cityscape, but Sydney has been outrated by Melbourne in an international comparison of major cities. But the quality of life in both cities paled against another.

Population

The Australian city with a better quality of life than Sydney or Melbourne

by Shane Wright

The Dorin family - Gordon, Archie, Saul 9 and Joshua, 6 - in their Kew front yard.

City life

Where are the kids? The Melbourne suburbs facing a child exodus

by Cara Waters

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