Melissa Cunningham

Abdinasir Abdullahi Salad, a rough sleeper with mental health issues, was fatally shot last month after allegedly lunging at police with a stolen knife.

Two police officers shot a rough sleeper dead on the eve of Easter on a busy Footscray street. Was the tragedy unavoidable?

The weight of the new bail laws hangs heavy at Victoria’s Children’s Court, where young offenders – most of whom are victims of trauma themselves – face their final shot at reform.

A woman who allegedly stabbed her mother to death in Melbourne’s east has treatment-resistant schizophrenia and has been deemed unfit to be interviewed, a court has been told.

“It’s not knowing where she is which is the hardest.” Samantha Murphy’s community is still in shock – and women are on edge.

For Amelia Grozdanovski, the happiest times of life have often been the hardest since her mother disappeared without a trace.

More – and bigger -- cars on the roads means pedestrians are at greater risk of serious injury.

Dozens of Victorian anaesthetists and surgeons have been accused of systematic billing scams and pocketing off-the-book fees in a damning complaint that has triggered investigations by a federal regulator and private health insurers.

The laws will make it a criminal offence to intentionally choke or strangle a person in Victoria, in reforms set in train by the death of Joy Rowley.

After the doctor was found not guilty in Victoria’s County Court, a civil tribunal has ruled that he did, on the balance of probabilities, sexually violate the woman during a consultation.