Carolyn Webb

In 1859, a Melbourne CBD hotel held ratting nights, where you’d bet on how many rats a dog could tear apart.

Stray cats deserve our compassion because they’re a human-created problem, says the founder of a Melbourne rescue charity.

Kew RSL had provided ‘incomplete and unsatisfactory responses’ to concerns RSL Victoria raised, the organisation said.

Lebanese immigrant Wadih Yacoub, who has been a shoemaker since he was 10 years old, makes luxury shoes for an upmarket CBD store from his backyard workshop in Essendon.

Sienna Grima started her business, Slime By Sienna, at the age of 11 and now has her own factory.

We profile some of the community quiet achievers who have been recognised in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours list.

Max Caldwell, who turned 100 on Sunday, is one of only two surviving soldiers from the 2/14th Battalion.

Paul Bennet and his 19-year-old son, Jett, will perform aerobatics together at the Avalon Airshow this week.

Volunteers who care for a 120-year-old ship and a replica of the Enterprize say they have nowhere to go after being told to move out.

A veterans’ march, but not as we know it, was held among Sunday joggers along Melbourne’s Tan.