Man arrested after fatal motorcycle crash in Melbourne and other top stories

Man arrested after fatal motorcycle crash in Melbourne

Edward Honiker, 23, of West Melbourne, was pronounced dead after his 2012 Honda motorcycle collided with a 2005 BMW in the intersection. The BMW, driven by 50-year-old Edward Jakob, of Melbourne, had also entered the intersection on a solid green ... >> view original

Help find missing Melbourne school girl Michelle Keating

A 16-year-old Mac.Robertson Girls High School student failed to return home last night, prompting a public appeal for information on her whereabouts. Michelle Keating was last seen on Wednesday afternoon at the selective entry girls school, on the ... >> view original

Kings Way car fire: Melbourne traffic banks up after blaze blocks West Gate ...

An early morning car fire on the Kings Way exit of the West Gate Freeway has triggered major traffic delays for Melbourne's city-bound commuters. The blaze broke out after the car slammed into a barrier on the off-ramp shortly before 6:00am. Flames ... >> view original

Melbourne woman dragged several metres at Malvern Station after getting ...

Quick-thinking commuters are being praised for helping a woman who slipped onto train tracks in Melbourne this morning. The woman's fingers became trapped in the door when she tried to board the train at Malvern station, in Melbourne's south-east at ... >> view original

Air New Zealand adds extra service to Melbourne for cricket fans

Air New Zealand has added a charter flight between Auckland and Melbourne to get another 300 fans to Sunday's Cricket World Cup final. It will be a lightning trip. The Boeing 777-200ER service leaves Auckland at 8.30am on Sunday and flies out of ... >> view original

Melbourne hotels booked out for Cricket World Cup final

Melbourne is facing a weekend room shortage as international sport fans descend on the city for the Cricket World Cup. Most CBD hotels are booked out for the night before Sunday's final, while others are charging up to $810 more than normal rates. >> view original

Melbourne ballpark idea draws FIT interest, proponent says

MELBOURNE – Florida Institute of Technology President Anthony Catanese is "very interested" in teaming up with the Brevard County Manatees in a downtown dual-purpose football-baseball stadium, said Mark LaRusso, a business consultant who is ... >> view original

Father and daughter combo Robert and Lynzey have been eliminate from MKR ...

THIS Sunday, the feud between The Real Housewives of Melbourne's Janet Roach and Gamble Breaux comes to a head as the pair get into another fight about “those rumours”. At a Sydney art gallery, Breaux's sister Tempest joined the attack on Roach for ... >> view original

Melbourne man slapped with whopping $191000 phone bill

A Melbourne man who was hit with a nasty phone bill of more than $190,000 after having his phone stolen has now been taken to court by his telco. Kim Beveridge was slapped with a $191,456 bill after his phone was pick-pocketed outside a bar in ... >> view original

Melbourne hoarders forced out of their own homes by piles of junk and clutter

Hoarders are being forced out of their homes by piles of their own possessions, as the Metropolitan Fire Brigade reports rising incidents of homes choked with junk, including in Melbourne's affluent suburbs. It is common for a hoarder's clutter to take ... >> view original