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

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

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

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 Express: Tuesday, February 24, 2015

6:42am: Police have caught up with a brazen bag-snatcher from Melbourne's north-west, Marissa Calligeros reports. The woman allegedly stole handbags from shoppers at several supermarkets in Northcote, Preston and Brunswick. The 48-year-old was ... >> view original

Melbourne City and Perth Glory play out goalless stalemate in A-League

Melbourne City and Perth Glory played out a 0-0 draw that did little for either's A-League ambitions. Glory lengthened their winless run to five matches at AAMI Park on Sunday, looking anything but the league leaders. Kenny Lowe's side didn't have a ... >> view original

Brawl erupts inside Melbourne Magistrates' Court

One man — believed to be the father of the defendant facing the theft charges — received lacerations to the face and was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition. Sources say the families are well-known to each other and have a ... >> view original

Melbourne's White Night festival is Summernats for the middle classes

A world away from the visceral appeal of a hotted-up car – or is it? Having attracted a “mere” 450,000 people into Melbourne's city centre, there are rumblings about White Night's future, but while the premier, Daniel Andrews, appears reluctant to ... >> view original

Severe thunderstorms strike Melbourne's west

Winds exceeding 100 km/h earlier battered Altona, Deer Park, Laverton, St Albans and south of Bacchus Marsh. Advertisement. The Bureau of Meteorology is warning for damaging winds, heavy rainfall and flash flooding in some areas. >> 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

Black Diggers march to Melbourne

The many Indigenous Australians who fought in World War I are often missing from the popular historical record, but their stories have informed the creation of Black Diggers, a play by Tom Wright that will arrive in Melbourne in April as part of Arts ... >> view original