Madeleine Heffernan

Convicts meet AI in an Institute of Public Affairs board game sent to schools across the country.

Known to locals as ‘the island’, Richmond is a hub for healthcare, business, public transport and hospitality. The footy club’s done OK too.

Melbourne’s CBD has the lowest retail vacancy rate of any Australian capital city as shoppers are enticed back to the CBD for fashion, food and coffee.

It’s been a day since former US President Donald Trump was shot at a rally, and the fallout from the assassination attempt is continuing to rock the world.

After allegedly being attacked by a “rideshare driver”, a 20-year-old persuaded him to drop her near a police station. But the station’s front desk hours had been cut back.

It was once conservative, culturally homogenous and rough in parts. These days it’s young, ethnically diverse and dominated by a university.

Police arrested a dozen protesters at a blockade in Port Melbourne and two others for allegedly tampering with traffic lights in Carlton.

Growing numbers of students are typing rather than writing their exams, due to fears their messy or illegible penmanship will hurt their marks.

Dressed in Victorian-era garb and twirling parasols, fans of clean water and history gathered on Sunday to celebrate the anniversary of Yan Yean, Melbourne’s first man-made reservoir.

Teen boy bashed, robbed at shopping centre