Dan Oakes

Victoria’s health department is urging people with flu-like symptoms to get tested after an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at Cheltenham, in the city’s south-east.

The earthquake that hit Melbourne’s north-west fringe on Sunday night was stronger than originally thought, with Geoscience Australia revising it up to magnitude-4.

Police say they are looking for two men who allegedly tricked a vulnerable passer-by into giving them his rent and pension money by pretending to tell his fortune.

Victoria’s 30th governor, Monash University vice-chancellor Margaret Gardner AC, says while she is a republican she does not believe her views will pose any obstacle to her when she takes up her role in August.

The special investigator appointed to build criminal cases against those involved in the Lawyer X scandal has attacked the director of public prosecutions for refusing to approve criminal charges against them.

Victoria’s director of public prosecutions Kerri Judd has rejected criticism that she should have authorised criminal charges over the Lawyer X scandal.

Yet again, Melbourne has been rocked (or slightly shaken) by an earthquake. According to Geosciences Australia, the tremor was actually an aftershock from a quake in 2021 that was centred near the tiny town of Woods Point in Victoria’s High Country.

Alastair Clarkson has returned to Arden Street after a self-imposed break from the game, but will not take charge of North Melbourne’s senior side until later in the season.

The woman who cooked a meal that is believed to have contained poisonous mushrooms and led to the deaths of three people gives a lengthy written statement to police detailing her account of what happened, and revealing she was hospitalised after the incident.

A senior lawyer at the heart of the disastrous and deadly Robodebt scheme resigns after questions are raised as to why she kept her Commonwealth job while contracted with another legal firm.