Yvette Gray

A Melbourne council says it is worried locals will be denied a say about a State Government proposal to build nine-storey apartment towers in a residential area in the city's south-east.

Buskers who want to perform in central Melbourne will have to face a public audition to secure a prime spot under a plan to overhaul the rules for street musicians and artists.

Two Mexican men are remanded in custody after police seize 300 kilograms of cocaine, worth about $105 million, that had been shipped to Melbourne in boxes of cacao and coffee powder.

If you've wanted to smash your alarm clock in the morning or trash your keyboard at work, you're not alone — and now you have a chance to do it.

The latest crime statistics for Victoria show an overall drop, but a sharp rise in sexual offences, which the Government says is driven by royal commissions.

Four men are interviewed by police and a knife is retrieved from a residential garden after a woman is found dead at a South Melbourne public housing block.

Bushfire-affected communities in the far east of Victoria are hopeful that drenching rainfall moving down from NSW will finally put an end to several massive blazes that have been burning for over a month.

Victoria's Health Minister says one word missing from a bank transaction led health authorities to list the wrong exposure site for COVID-19 in Melbourne's north, as more than 700 businesses in the state are fined for breaching COVID-safe rules.

The chief executive of SPC says he believes the video, posted to social media, is in direct response to the vaccination mandate.

The New York Police Department says Jordan De Goey and a 28-year-old Australian man have been charged with assault offences after an alleged incident at a New York nightclub.