The Latest Breaking News from Melbourne

Mark McGowan’s deputy Roger Cook will be Western Australia’s next premier, and Melbourne experienced its second earthquake in three days at 5.03pm yesterday.

A campaign by the activist group Fight Transphobia UniMelb against feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith escalated recently. There have been calls to boycott her course on feminism at the University of Melbourne. Posters and stickers around the campus and its environs have declared “Our demands: Transphobes and Nazis off campus” and…

The City of Melbourne has severed ties with its sister city St Petersburg in protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The council unanimously moved

"It is clear you had an opportunity to stop, put the knife down and walk away from the argument. Instead you engaged in what you knew to be morally abhorrent behaviour."

A man remains under police guard in hospital.

The earthquake that hit Melbourne's north-west fringe on Sunday night was stronger than originally thought, with Geoscience Australia revising it up to magnitude-4.

A new civil trial alleging sexual abuse by former Melbourne school principal Malka Leifer is averted after a last-minute settlement is reached.

Watch: Homicide detectives are investigating the fatal stabbing of a woman in Melbourne's eastern suburbs on Tuesday. Chris Dawson has been accused of

A man who stabbed his wife to death at their home in Melbourne's eastern suburbs after an argument over their child's kindergarten has been handed a 24-year prison sentence.

The day a player makes their Origin debut is one of the highlights of their career. But what happens when their first time is also their last?

There are calls for the waste collection industry to be overhauled, after the ABC obtains CCTV footage of a private company collecting recycling and waste from a Melbourne apartment building in the same truck.