The Latest Breaking News from Melbourne

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.

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…

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."