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 Yarra Riverkeeper Association says a bright green transformation of Melbourne's Yarra River on Thursday highlights broader issues around the lack of controls over litter in the waterway.

Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto has been served with a fresh defamation threat by ousted MP Moira Deeming. 

From Melbourne to Flushing Meadows, a trio of rising tennis stars has recorded a number of firsts for China over the past 12 months, pointing to a brighter future for male players as they seek to emulate the success enjoyed by Chinese women. Zhang Zhizhen, the eldest of the three,…

SYDNEY: Australia's Crown Resorts is set to pay a civil penalty of A$450 million (US$290 million) for lax money laundering controls that saw cash being carried into a casino in paper bags, shoe boxes and suitcases.

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.