The firefighters union said pumper-tanker failures seriously hampered firefighting efforts “and the result could have been catastrophic”.

The David Jones store at the heart of Melbourne’s Bourke St mall has sold in a $223.5m deal that has put the store back in Australian hands for the first time in a decade.

Emergency services have responded to a factory fire after reports that lithium-ion batteries had caught alight in Cheltenham.

A fire has broken out at a factory in Cheltenham, in Melbourne's south-east. Fire Rescue Victoria says a caller to Triple Zero said lithum-ion batteries at the factory caught fire.

Victoria’s whopping debt has been blamed for stagnating the housing market, with new figures also revealing the city’s rental market lagging behind the rest of the country. Victoria’s whopping state debt has been blamed for keeping its housing market “stuck in neutral”.

A $500,000 Ferrari was one of four cars stolen from homes in Melbourne during a spate of crime in the city's western suburbs.

As a million students return to their classrooms this week, schools are struggling to meet growing student demand.

A second burnt-out car is found by police in Melbourne's north, a day after the fatal shooting of Melbourne gangland figure Sam Abdulrahim.

Emergency services have rescued two people from a house fire in Melbourne’s north-west in the early hours of Thursday morning after several panicked calls.

Victoria’s multicultural affairs minister has lashed a comedian who performed multiple Nazi salutes at his Melbourne show, warning that he could be in breach of state laws.

A member of the Mongols bikie gang has been charged over two alleged incidents, including attempting to kick and punch a learner motorcycle rider as they travelled at high speed along a Melbourne freeway,

The Melbourne Vixens and Netball Victoria will bring two blockbuster pre-season events to Ballarat in March, with the Ballarat Blitz returning for