Patrick Hatch

Israel says its forces have encircled Gaza City amid growing calls for a humanitarian pause in fighting, and warnings that Palestinians are at “grave risk of genocide”.

About $100 million is sitting on unused and expired myki cards.

Rising infrastructure costs and federal reluctance to fund projects has the Victorian government considering private investment in the Suburban Rail Loop.

A bicycle highway through Melbourne’s eastern suburbs via an underground “ghost platform” at Box Hill station would ease road congestion and public transport crowding.

A planning overhaul of Clayton centred around two new Suburban Rail Loop stations may not be enough to realise the potential of the burgeoning research hub.

The $10 billion toll road is due to open in 2025, but is projected to pump an extra 9000 vehicles daily onto streets in North and West Melbourne. Locals want answers on how that traffic will be controlled.

Evacuation orders have been issued for parts of Rochester, Seymour and Yea as fast-rising water threatens to inundate homes after rainfall records were broken across central Victoria on Monday.

The vast majority of workers get to the airport by private vehicle – as do about half of the 90,000 travellers departing or arriving daily.

The West Gate Tunnel Project’s builders have blamed the project’s engineers for design errors that led to cost blowouts and a three-year delay.

Melburnians may look north with envy, but experts warn cutting fares is not the best way to get people out of cars and back onto public transport.