The Latest Breaking News from Melbourne

Major roads have been blocked and firefighters are on the scene after a huge blaze broke out inside a building in Melbourne's southeast.

My mother fell in love with my father, Leo, at a Melbourne suburban dance hall in 1946. He was 26, handsome, athletic, smart, a newly minted war veteran, and his grin was infectious. They were a dazzling couple, as their later wedding photos show. Many decades on my mother liked…

The accused, who can't be identified for legal reasons, handed himself into police late last night.

Long-serving Dragons forward Jason Ryles has rejected the top job at his boyhood club in favour of an assistant coaching position at the Melbourne Storm, while the Dragons' main sponsor, St George Bank, announces it will no longer back the club.

A Supreme Court jury finds a man guilty of murder, after he killed his girlfriend of only a few weeks and dumped her body in a household rubbish bin.

A jury has found Joon Seong Tan guilty of murdering Melbourne mum Ju 'Kelly' Zhang and disposing of her body in a wheelie bin in February 2021.

Voters in Melbourne's north-east will head to the polls for the third time in just over a year, after Liberal MP Ryan Smith — a critic of leader John Pesutto — called time on his Victorian political career.

A 17-year-old boy is charged with murder over the stabbing of teenager Pasawm Lyhym in an altercation between two groups at Sunshine, in Melbourne's west, this month.

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…