'Explosive device' brought to Melbourne police station given the all clear and other top stories

'Explosive device' brought to Melbourne police station given the all clear

The 'explosive device' that led to the Bomb Squad to establish an exclusion zone around a police station in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs has been declared safe. At around 1.30pm a man entered the St Kilda Police Station near the corner of Chapel ... >> view original

White Night Melbourne: down Alice's rabbit hole and into the Yarra light

From dusk till dawn on Saturay night, Melbourne's CBD was transformed into an incandescent landscape of video projections, music, film and installation art – a creative playground open for anyone game enough to persevere through the crowds. >> view original

Harassment of Muslim women on the rise in Melbourne

The verbal abuse of women in headscarves is on the rise in Melbourne, say Muslim women, with some being shoved and spat on while walking. Noble Park mother Reem Hakem said her 14-year-old daughter was recently yelled at by a man while walking ... >> view original

9 things we learnt at Soundwave Melbourne

As the saying goes: If you don't like the weather in Melbourne, wait 15 minutes. And this remained more than true for Soundwave's first weekend. Saturday saw a brief and unexpected lightning storm engulf the festival grounds, with one lightning strike ... >> view original

Melbourne airport technology failure caused ground controllers to lose ...

A Senate Estimates committee has heard a late night technology failure at Melbourne Airport led ground controllers to lose the positions of multiple planes on the tarmac. Independent Senator Nick Xenophon told estimates he was tipped off about the ... >> view original

Street performers rally to save place in Melbourne

Melbourne Main Street created an online poll, which is posted at melbourneflorida.org, at the city's request to collect opinions about street performers. As of Tuesday afternoon, 76 percent of the 496 respondents opposed limits or regulations on ... >> view original

Woman and guide dog fall onto Melbourne train tracks

A vision-impaired woman and her guide dog had a lucky escape after falling onto train tracks in Melbourne's east on Tuesday. The guide dog led the woman to the edge of the platform at East Ringwood station about 5.05pm. The pair appeared to stop ... >> view original

ICC World Cup: When Melbourne turned into Mumbai and Mohali

In reality, this was the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia's pride and joy, by a distance the ground that can seat the most spectators in international cricket. In full capacity, the MCG can easily host nearly a hundred thousand spectators. It wasn't ... >> view original

Melbourne cops a soaking as lightning, tornado wreaks havoc

Melbourne has been smashed by wild weather, with reports of a tornado near Shepparton and almost 17,000 lightning strikes recorded across Victoria. The line of storms extended right across the state, with reports of a possible tornado at Merrigum, near ... >> view original

Patients wait for scans in Melbourne's north, west

Patients in Melbourne's north and west are waiting twice as long for a scan as those in southern suburbs due to inefficient use of costly imaging equipment by public hospitals. Victoria's auditor-general John Doyle made the finding in an audit of the ... >> view original