Leanne Wong

A five-year-old staghound who was found starving and abandoned on a pile of rubbish has found his "forever home" with a semi-retired couple.

The identity of a Melbourne woman charged with murder over a body found floating in the Maribyrnong River has been suppressed, after a court issued a temporary gag order.

A 36-year-old man of no fixed address has appeared in court, after being charged with murdering a fisherman on Frankston Pier.

Yarra council is forced to back down on a controversial proposal that would have allowed its CEO to buy and sell property worth up to $10 million without councillor approval, after receiving overwhelming community backlash.

A Yarra councillor says a tenfold increase to the value of property the CEO can sell-off without councillor sign-off could turn the role into that of an 'unelected, economic czar'. 

A Parkville man accused of making a hoax bomb threat, forcing multiple CBD buildings into lockdown, faces Melbourne Magistrates' Court.

The jury in the murder trial of Toby Loughnane, who stands accused of killing girlfriend Maryam Hamka in 2021, has been discharged.

Prosecutors told a Melbourne court that Maryam Hamka suffered repeated physical abuse at the hands of her boyfriend Toby Loughnane before her disappearance in 2021. 

Hundreds of young people who are at risk of offending are set to miss out on a key youth crime prevention program after the Victorian government slashed a third of its funding.

Melbourne City Council will look for grants and donations to make more than a dozen of its promised projects a reality.

Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto labels Tuesday's state budget a "failure of leadership", accusing his political opponents of missing an opportunity to turn around the state's growing debt.

A Melbourne magistrate has described a Woolworths payroll error as a systematic and gross failure, but says the company is remorseful.

Fire authorities have warned of the growing risk of lithium batteries after 50 residents were evacuated from a building due to an exploding mobile phone power bank.

When Paul called ING with a question about his cryptocurrency investment, the bank's scam team was alerted. Now, after losing nearly $500,000 to a romance scam, Paul argues the bank could have stopped it.

Victoria's abandoned Commonwealth Games cost the state more than $589 million and the price estimate that tanked the event was overstated and not transparent, according to a new report.

A Point Cook woman whose body was found inside a bin beside a dirt road in regional Victoria has been remembered as a "lovely", "friendly" person who adored her young son.

While police hold little hope that 51-year-old mother of three Samantha Murphy will be found alive, dozens of volunteers are trying to help authorities bring answers to her family.

Fireworks and other explosives at a suspicious blaze at a tobacco shop in Melbourne's north were hurled towards firefighters and sent shrapnel into surrounding homes, residents say.

Darren Chalmers has received a second life sentence for the murder of Geelong woman Annette Steward in 1992, after he killed WA woman Dianne Barrett in 2019.

Experts say it's easier than you think for cybercriminals to guess your credit card details. And it's costing customers and small businesses. 

A Melbourne court hears a diabetic man whose car struck and killed five people outside a regional Victorian pub allegedly ignored nine warnings from a medical device that his blood glucose levels were low.

Thousands of people take to Australian streets for the sixth-straight week, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, while pro-Israeli events are rallying for the release of hostages.

Yarra council votes to reduce the speed limit to 30 kilometres per hour for almost every street in the inner-Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy and Collingwood.

A Neo-Nazi who a judge had just deemed to have good prospects of rehabilitation was filmed doing a Nazi salute as soon as he stepped outside the court.

A Senate committee interim report sheds more light on when red flags began to emerge around the hosting of the 2026 regional Commonwealth Games. But how did we get here? And where did it go so wrong?