Dan Harrison

Did Victoria's second wave start with a night duty manager in a quarantine hotel in inner Melbourne? Here's what we know and what remains unclear.

When the demand for power exceeds supply, sometimes electricity networks cut people off from power to prevent the whole system from collapsing. It's called load shedding. This is how it works.

Victoria should brace itself for extreme weather over the next few days, with the bureau forecasting damaging winds, flooding rains and snow before conditions clear up for Melbourne Cup day.

A Melbourne council puts on hold a controversial plan from Melbourne Victory Football Club to turn part of Footscray Park into a soccer academy, instead voting to set up a community advisory panel to consider the proposal.

The 17-year-old will not be making a complaint against the far-right senator for striking him twice in the head, or against bystanders who tackled him to the ground and restrained him in a chokehold, his lawyer says.

He earned admirers around the world when he smashed an egg on the head of far-right senator Fraser Anning, but was #eggboy's stunt an act of political violence?

What caused more than 200,000 Victorians to lose power on Friday, and do we need to get used to rolling brownouts?

Meralyn Klein discusses being assaulted by migrant teenagers in a video that calls for a Muslim immigration ban, but says she has no association with the rival party that produced it, and they "made it into something it's not".

Victorians deemed as possible terror threats could be banned from areas like Melbourne's CBD or forced to wear electronic monitoring devices under an election promise from the State Opposition.

The Victorian Government publishes an agreement it signed with China over its controversial global infrastructure initiative, after several days of pressure from the Opposition and the Federal Government.

A Melbourne couple has a lucky escape after a driver crashes his car into the living room of their home in the city's south-east while they are asleep in bed upstairs.

Police are investigating whether speed, fatigue or distraction contributed to a head-on collision that has left two people dead and three in a critical condition in hospital.

A 25-year-old woman dies and debris is strewn across a highway in Melbourne's south-east when a car crashes into a pole.

Hannah Mouncey withdraws from the AFLW draft, accusing the AFL of treating her poorly and putting its "corporate image" above all other considerations.

Hannah Mouncey withdraws from the AFLW draft, accusing the AFL of treating her poorly and putting its "corporate image" above all other considerations.

The teenager suffers a serious head injury when the car, carrying four youths as young as 13, crashes in Melbourne's south-east after being reported stolen last month.

Police interview a 26-year-old man of no fixed address over a hit-and-run which killed a Dutch cyclist in Melbourne's inner-south on the weekend, after a member of the public recognises him from images released by detectives.

Police say a 19-year-old woman is fatally assaulted in a short-stay apartment in Melbourne's CBD after a dispute between two groups of young people at a party.

A high resolution camera which was partly developed in Melbourne and launched towards the International Space Station on Friday will be used to fight bushfires and monitor the health of the Great Barrier Reef.

Victoria's Health Department gives Robert Doyle 10 days to answer allegations made against him, while his accuser claims Melbourne Health executives tried to discourage her from speaking out.