Leanne Wong

A court has heard the man accused of committing multiple carjackings with a fake gun on Tuesday had been granted bail two days prior.

Victoria's prison population has surged by 62 per cent in the last 20 years as the number of accused held on remand triples.

A council in Melbourne's outer north has voted for more scrutiny over applications for resource-intensive data centres, with its deputy mayor warning the significant volumes of water they require could jeopardise new housing and population growth. 

Western United fans have expressed their disappointment and sadness after the team was stripped of its A-League licence late last week.

Almost one in five households displaced by a controversial plan to redevelop Melbourne’s public housing towers have been placed in the private market, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

A Federal Court judge has thrown out a case brought by Victoria's police union that alleged frontline members were owed hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid overtime.

Documents show Greater Western Water is assessing 19 data centre applications requesting to use a total of 20 gigalitres of water annually — the same amount 330,000 Melburnians used in the last financial year.

Clothing containing cat fur is still being sold in Victoria while being labelled as fake or sheep's wool, an advocacy group says, years after a state government taskforce vowed to crack down on the practice.

Nepean MP Sam Groth has been asked to explain his actions by senior party figures after he used a taxpayer-funded car to travel home from the Australian Open last year.

Two teenagers alleged to be the main offenders in a violent brawl between "rival gangs" at a Melbourne shopping centre were on bail at the time.