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Train strikes set to hit Melbourne next week as Metro staff vote yes to ...

Melbourne commuters face a four-hour train stoppage and a day of free travel on Melbourne's rail network next week as industrial negotiations between Metro Trains and the Rail, Tram and Bus Union turn hostile. Metro's heavily unionised workforce voted ... >> view original

Mum charged with three counts of murder over Melbourne lake crash

A mother has been charged with murder over the deaths of her three children after a car they were all travelling in crashed into a Melbourne lake in April. Akon Guode, a 36-year-old from Wyndham Vale, attended Spencer Street police complex just after ... >> view original

Crane collapse sparks another day of heavy peak-hour traffic

Motorists are experiencing another day of major traffic delay in Melbourne's north and west, as work continues to remove a crane that collapsed on a Melbourne construction site. The Kings Way exit ramp off the West Gate Freeway was closed on Friday ... >> view original

Melbourne researchers find new breast cancer gene

Melbourne researchers have isolated a gene that plays a complex role in breast cancer. The PIPP gene ordinarily works to suppress tumours, but when breast cancer forms it causes the cancer to spread to the other parts of the body. The Monash University ... >> view original

White Night Melbourne to return on February 20, 2016

Mark the date in your calendar: Melbourne's dusk til dawn music and arts festival White Night Melbourne will return in February. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced the return of the festival during a press conference at Melbourne Museum on ... >> view original

John McGrath: Sydney property 'close to peak', Melbourne similar

McGrath's Monday report for its Sydney's weekend clearance rate was 80 per cent and while this was a "stronger property market" indicator, Mr McGrath said the Sydney and Melbourne markets were 80 to 90 per cent through their cycle. "I'd be concerned if ... >> view original

Disabled Melbourne woman made to feel like prisoner in own home

When a disabled pensioner asked her 10-year-old neighbour to stop kicking his football towards her house, she didn't realise it would lead to eight years of torment. Mouna Ibrahim, 49, used to consider her home in the Melbourne suburb of Hoppers ... >> view original

Melbourne Zoo trying to keep weight off pregnant Asian Elephant Num-Oi for ...

Melbourne Zoo's pregnant Asian elephant has tipped the scales at 3,230 kilograms at her regular pregnancy weigh-in. Spare a thought for mother-to-be Num-Oi who has been pregnant for one year and still has another 10 months to go. Vets are trying to ... >> view original

Hilarious Instagram rates best toilets

DUNNY connoisseurs of Melbourne can breathe a sigh of relief with a new Instagram account scrutinising local establishments for the condition of their porcelain throne rooms. The aptly titled 'places2poo' Instagram provides a much-needed public service ... >> view original

Is Lume restaurant in South Melbourne serving Melbourne's longest dinner?

I'm trapped in an existential reimagining of what dinner is, of a degustation as bold and blatantly ambitious as any new Melbourne restaurant we have seen in many years. REVIEW: FLOWER DRUM FAR FROM WORLD CLASS. But it's hard to engage in a ... >> view original