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Lynne recently paid to extend the footpath in front of her home to save 100-year-old hedge.

Local council

The ‘unusual’ solution to end long-running battle over hedges in leafy suburbs

Long-standing feuds between hedge lovers and neighbours fed up with conifers encroaching on footpaths are being tackled with a creative solution.

by Sophie Aubrey

Cyclists and scooter riders are regularly causing chaos on CityLink.

Roads

The lost delivery riders causing chaos on toll roads and tunnels

by Patrick Hatch

Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh.

Nationals

Nationals grassroots members go nuclear over Welcome to Country ceremonies

by Annika Smethurst

Pro-housing groups will seek to expand their clout in key inner-city areas.

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Property development

The YIMBY plan to oust the NIMBYs from local councils

by Royce Millar and Rachael Dexter

Measles cases are on the rise globally as authorities warn Australians to make sure they are up to date with vaccinations.

Measles outbreak

‘Concerning’ rise in measles cases as travellers import virus

by Amber Schultz

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Politics

Victorian nurses, midwives and carers met on Monday to vote on a new pay deal.

Healthcare

Jubilant to hostile: How a done deal blew up in the nursing union’s face

A collapsed pay deal has left the union reeling, insulted members are calling for long-time Victorian branch secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick to stand down and its industrial action is in disarray.

by Henrietta Cook and Jewel Topsfield

Pro-housing groups will seek to expand their clout in key inner-city areas.

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Property development

The YIMBY plan to oust the NIMBYs from local councils

Candidates at the coming local government elections will be asked to pledge that they will not block apartment developments, as YIMBY and pro-housing groups seek to expand their clout in key inner-city areas.

by Royce Millar and Rachael Dexter

Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh.

Nationals

Nationals grassroots members go nuclear over Welcome to Country ceremonies

by Annika Smethurst

Victorian Labor is facing a race against the clock to repair its standing with voters under new premier Jacinta Allan.

ALP

Jacinta Allan’s Labor faces trouble as the west gets wild

by Rachel Eddie and Kieran Rooney

Oxycodone is among the prescription drugs monitored by the SafeScript software.

Pharmaceuticals

Teen died after getting 64 prescriptions from 31 doctors

by David Estcourt

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

Marlon Brando in The Godfather.

Analysis

Naked City

Why ego should be a gangster’s dirty word

by John Silvester

The base of the upturned tree where human remains were earlier found.

Missing campers trial

Teeth and a charred watch: The police search for missing campers’ remains

by Erin Pearson

Cooper Onyett, centre, with his mother Skye Meinen and older brother. Cooper drowned at Port Fairy in 2021.

Courts

‘Shattered into a million pieces’: Mother speaks of loss after son drowns on school trip

by David Estcourt

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

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Education

The notice sent to parents by Nossal High School.

Education

School under fire over $600 family bill to watch children graduate

by Robyn Grace

CBD

This private school has banned water bottles from classrooms. Here are the results

by Stephen Brook

Education

Abilities not exams: Victorian students testing a new measure that could replace ATAR

by Robyn Grace

Health

About 560,000 chickens have now been slaughtered in an effort to curb the latest avian flu outbreak.

Biodiversity

‘Just bad luck’: Separate strains of bird flu found at Victorian egg farms

by Bianca Hall

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Healthcare

Prolific circumcision doctor banned from performing the surgery

by Henrietta Cook

Flu season

Victorian child confirmed to have rare and dangerous H5N1 bird flu

by Angus Dalton and Bianca Hall

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