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Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Police find seven missing siblings safe and well

<p>Police are asking for the public's help as they try and locate seven siblings reported missing from Melbourne's north-west.</p> → Read More

Aiia Maasarwe's killer sentenced to 36 years behind bars

The man who murdered young Palestinian student Aiia Maasarwe will spend at least 30-years behind bars. → Read More

Smokers banned from Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall

As well as the new Bourke Street area, there are 10 other designated smoke-free areas within the City of Melbourne, including Goldsbrough Lane, QV Melbourne, The Causeway, Howey Place, Equitable Place, Block Place, The Tan running track, Princes Park running track, Collins Way and Fulham Place. → Read More

Officer hospitalised after being hit by teens in allegedly stolen car

A driver in a stolen car ran into a police officer and his teen accomplice as he tried to evade custody in ... → Read More

Tram drivers walk off the job continuing demand for pay increase

Melbourne's tram drivers will walk off the job today to demand a 6 per cent annual pay rise. → Read More

Young Victorian campers found dead in 4WD after failing to return last week

<p>Police have found the bodies of Caleb Forbes, 22, and Shannon Lowden, 21, one week after they set off on a camping trip in Victoria's west Gippsland area.</p> → Read More

Man charged with murder after toddler found dead in Melbourne home

<p>A man has been charged with murder after a toddler was found dead in a Melbourne home on Monday.</p> → Read More

Woman sexually assaulted by man outside State Library of Victoria

Police are hunting a man after a woman was sexually assaulted outside Victoria's State Library last month. → Read More

Container refund scheme trashed as Victoria faces waste 'Crisis'

<p>A plan for a container deposit scheme in Victoria that would refund 10 cents for each returned drink bottle and can has been trashed by state government.</p> → Read More

Roberta Williams granted bail after being charged with kidnapping and threats to kill a man

<p>Gangland widow Roberta Williams given bail after being charged with alleged kidnapping and making threats following an incident in Collingwood last month.</p> → Read More

'What a waste': Trucks queue to dump recycling in landfill

<p>Dozens of trucks full of what appears to be recyclable materials were today queuing up at a garbage facility in Melbourne's west.</p> → Read More

Stranded Victorian scouts take over LAX International airport

<p>A group of 170 Victorian Scouts are stranded in Los Angeles airport after their Qantas flight home was cancelled.</p> → Read More

New Labor legislation takes aim at Wicked Campers

<p>The Victorian Labor Government will introduce new laws to ban vehicles displaying offensive images or slogans from travelling on the state's roads.</p> → Read More

Recycling giant SKM to shut down, leaving tonnes of waste destined for landfill

<p>One of Victoria's biggest kerbside recycling companies has been ordered to wind up after failing to pay creditors millions of dollars.</p> → Read More

Heartless thieves take hearing aids belonging to terminally ill child

Heartless thieves have stolen hearing aids belonging to a child suffering from a rare terminal illness in M... → Read More

Thousands of tonnes of recycling destined for landfill as SKM shuts its doors

<p>More than 30 Victorian councils are scratching their heads after recycling giant SKM announced it would immediately stop collecting kerbside recyclable materials.</p> → Read More

Springvale unregistered beauty salon had cockroaches crawling on equipment cosmetic surgery – News Melbourne

<p>Hundreds of people may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis at an illegal beauty clinic in Melbourne’s south-east where cockroaches were found crawling on equipment, authorities said.</p> → Read More

Homeless man fighting for his life after being run over by rubbish truck

A man sleeping rough in Melbourne’s CBD been run over by a rubbish truck and is fighting for his life in ho... → Read More

Mother separated from baby as train pulls out of Melbourne station

<p>A mother has spent 15 frantic minutes separated from her baby after the doors of a Melbourne Metro train closed, leaving her child on the departing carriage while she was stood on the platform.</p> → Read More

'I saw a dog on top of the body of the man and the lady was trying to help out'

<p>Neighbours said Leo Biancofiore, 61, was in a wheelchair and "couldn’t defend himself." He was found dead by police after being attacked by the family dog.</p> → Read More