The firefighters union said pumper-tanker failures seriously hampered firefighting efforts “and the result could have been catastrophic”.

Police in Australia have charged a 21-year-old man for allegedly painting "Pam the Bird" graffiti on a series of landmarks in Melbourne. Jack Gibson-Burrell, arrested on Thursday, faces over 50 charges, including criminal damage, burglary, shop theft, and theft of a motor vehicle, the Victoria police said on Friday.

As real estate buying and selling heats up again for 2025, Victoria has been surpassed as the nation’s auction mecca, with more auctions scheduled in another state for most of February. Melbourne will be surpassed by Sydney as the nation’s auction capital this weekend.

Emergency services were called to a Melbourne home on Friday afternoon after the death of a woman inside the property, with a Homicide Squad investigation now underway. The Homicide Squad has been called in after a woman was found dead inside a home in Melbourne's north-west.

For more than a year, "Pam the Bird" soared over Melbourne, appearing on city landmarks, skyscrapers and road signs. But the cartoon bird's alleged creator could be grounded.

Jordan passed the penguin to another registered wildlife rescuer, Lynne Amore, who drove from Bairnsdale to Melbourne on Friday morning with the airconditioning running in her car to keep the penguin cool.

The presence of increasingly violent beggars and drunks on central Melbourne streets has prompted a council plan to hire private security guards to protect its staff.

After being spat on and called a terrorist while praying, Yeliz Deveci would love to see more multifaith rooms in Melbourne's CBD.

Thousands of police officers have been deployed to patrol Melbourne suburbs to tackle what Chief Commissioner Shane Patton describes as a “huge rise” in antisemitism across Victoria.

David Abbey is a life-long Labor voter but he’s ready – almost – to turn against the premier. Peter Dutton will be closely watching two Victorian byelections.

Victoria’s whopping debt has been blamed for stagnating the housing market, with new figures also revealing the city’s rental market lagging behind the rest of the country. Victoria’s whopping state debt has been blamed for keeping its housing market “stuck in neutral”.

Accor has expanded its premier apartment hotel brand, The Sebel, with the addition of The Sebel Melbourne Kew.