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The Somerton Intermodal Terminal is set to open late next year.

Trains

‘Like building two airports’: In fight against trucks, there’s a battle to control trains

A new rail freight hub in Melbourne’s outer north will be so big Canberra doesn’t need to spend $1.6 billion on a facility 20 kilometres away, the rail terminal’s owners say.

by Patrick Hatch

City life

The gracious, spacious suburb people move to – and never leave

by Carolyn Webb

The Age’s new trainees.

Media & marketing

Meet the future of The Age as we welcome five talented new trainees

Sam Vale, acting director of the Windsor Community Children’s Centre, with two-year-olds Thea (centre) and Lance.

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Early childhood

Parents furious as university moves to evict kindergarten

by Noel Towell

Annameike Cozens on the family farm with her shiny new tractor.

VCE

When Annameike finished her VCE last year, she treated herself to a tractor

by Bridie Smith

Transport

The Somerton Intermodal Terminal is set to open late next year.

Trains

‘Like building two airports’: In fight against trucks, there’s a battle to control trains

by Patrick Hatch

Melbourne’s bus network.

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City life

Melburnians want airport rail and more buses before the Suburban Rail Loop, survey says

by Cara Waters

What happens if you don’t tap off your myki? We have the answer for you.

Public transport

No tap and a $296 whack: myki fines among the world’s harshest

by Patrick Hatch

Premier Jacinta Allan announcing a tunnelling contract for the Suburban Rail Loop on Monday.

Public transport

Jacinta Allan has some time to delay airport rail, but not for long

by Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie

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Crime & Courts

A judge says Peter Koutsogiannakis left a cyclist to die “like roadkill” as he jailed him for at least five years.

Crime

‘Menace to society’: Fatal hit-run driver jailed for at least five years

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by Emily Woods

There have been reports of a house explosion in Sydney’s west.

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Organised crime

Crime figures exploiting bail system amid claims of fake trackers, perjury and weapons offences

by Chris Vedelago and Erin Pearson

Police are appealing for information over the disappearance of Adrian Romeo.

Crime

Adrian said he was heading out to visit people. He hasn’t been seen for five months

by Melissa Cunningham

One man has died and a woman is fighting for life after an alleged fight in Bentleigh East.

Crime

Man charged with murder and attempted murder after fight at Bentleigh East home

by Melissa Meehan and Ashleigh McMillan

Local council

Fiona Austin, founder of Beaumaris Modern, at one of the Bayside homes she wants to see protected with heritage listing.

City life

Postwar homes in Bayside at the centre of heritage fight

by Cara Waters

Former Carlton star Anthony Koutoufides.

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City life

Three votes, Kouta: Carlton champ mulls run for Melbourne Lord Mayor

by Cara Waters and Broede Carmody

Fitzroy football and cricket clubs want council to hurry up on new facilities.

Local council

Possum poo, no showers after games: A long-promised Fitzroy footy fix-up faces a downgrade

by Kieran Rooney

Fitzroy North couple Kenneth Gomez and Mary Guiney are angry about the new flood mapping process.

Local council

Flood risk for more than 22,000 inner Melbourne properties, new modelling shows

by Sophie Aubrey

Badminton player Tom Kou.

City life

Concerns over badminton racket at proposed centre stuns sport’s players, officials

by Sophie Aubrey

Candidate for Melbourne’s lord mayor, Nick Reece, wants growth suburbs to be like Barcelona or Copenhagen, not Docklands.

Local council

Copenhagen, not Docklands: Nick Reece wants to be lord mayor for real – here’s how

by Aisha Dow

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City life

Fiona Austin, founder of Beaumaris Modern, at one of the Bayside homes she wants to see protected with heritage listing.

City life

Postwar homes in Bayside at the centre of heritage fight

Concerns modernist mid-century homes will be at risk of demolition if councillors spurn a heritage protection push.

by Cara Waters

‘It’s a different world,’ says collector Tony Shields, of the conditions of early Antarctic exploration.

City life

Postcards from the edge: Relics tell true tales of Antarctic explorers

A piece of a ship is among the Antarctic exploration relics that Tony Shields has collected.

by Carolyn Webb

Former Carlton star Anthony Koutoufides.

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City life

Three votes, Kouta: Carlton champ mulls run for Melbourne Lord Mayor

by Cara Waters and Broede Carmody

An artist’s render of Arden precinct in Melbourne’s inner north.

Opinion

City life

The pictures show happy citizens lolling about in a new nirvana. The reality will be a grey urban ghetto

by Norman Day

Artist Fiona McMonagle’s newest exhibition is entitled Cat Lady.

City life

Single, lonely, eccentric: reclaiming the ‘sexist’ cat lady stereotype

by Cara Waters

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