White Night Melbourne 2015: The best of an all-night spectacle and other top stories

White Night Melbourne 2015: The best of an all-night spectacle

In one respect - crowd management - White Night Melbourne 2015 appears to have been fairly successful. Following widespread criticism over overcrowding and long queues in the first two years of the city's all-night party, which drew more than 300,000 ... >> view original

Melbourne weather: Enjoy warmth ahead of cool week ahead

Enjoy the heat while you can, because it might be Melbourne's last beach-worthy weather for some time. A top of 36 degrees is forecast for the city on Sunday and it had already reached 27 degrees by 9am, Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Stephen King ... >> view original

White Night Melbourne 2015: What not to miss

Dubbed Eat Me, this work by French graphic design duo Antoine and Manuel was inspired by Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland but was lifted into the stratosphere by Melbourne artist Sui Zhen's lilting, hypnotic soundtrack. It has proven a huge crowd ... >> view original

Melbourne's punks, emos, goths and metal heads ride the Soundwave storm

Melbourne's night may have belonged to the light with White Night, but the day belonged to the darkness as some of the world's top rock and metal bands kicked off Soundwave 2015 at the Melbourne Showgrounds. Thousands of goths, emos, rockers and ... >> view original

Vile racist attack on Melbourne street caught on camera

A shocking racist attack in the heart of Melbourne's CBD has been caught on camera. Witnesses to the incident recorded the vile assault on an Indian man by a group of thugs, who taunted him and hurled racial slurs in the middle of Spencer Street last ... >> view original

Arson attacks, shootings and assaults hit some Melbourne restaurants

The suspicious fire that destroyed a $2 million Essendon home last weekend appears to be the latest in a series of unsolved arson attacks, shootings and bashings plaguing Melbourne's restaurant scene. The Sunday Age understands there have been at ... >> view original

South Africa v India Preview, Match 13, Melbourne

The Melbourne Cricket Ground is the biggest cricket ground in the world. A huge, intimidating cauldron that can seat upwards of 90,000 people, this venue is not for the faint-hearted player. Even totally empty as it was on Saturday, it made for quite a ... >> view original

White Night 2015: What you need to know about Melbourne's all-night festival

Other landmarks to host festival events include Federation Square, ACMI, NGV Australia, the Royal Exhibition Building, RMIT the State Library, Melbourne Central, Bourke St Mall, The Forum, Birrarung Marr, as well as streets and laneways, churches and ... >> view original

Melbourne Storm beat Canterbury Bulldogs in trial match

Melbourne Storm showed their late game heroics aren't reserved for the regular season as they came back to beat Canterbury Bulldogs 32-30 in a trial game at AAMI Park on Saturday night. Strapping winger Suliasi Vunivalu scored the try which tied the ... >> view original