A Cheltenham mother and two of her young children died after their vehicle hit a pole and burst into flames on a busy inner-city road on Friday.
Police say the skydiving instructor attempted to cushion the landing for the other man and asked paramedics if he could stand up during the 20 minutes they treated him before he died.
It took more than an hour for about 60 firefighters to gain control of a large building blaze that sent smoke across Melbourne’s north-west on Saturday morning.
A number of volunteer fire brigades in the Dandenongs say they have been hamstrung by bureaucracy in trying to deal with the clean-up of the massive storms in the area.
Four people have been taken by ambulance from the LU Simon Builders building on Bourke Street.
The mayor of Kingston says locals are concerned about safety at Moorabbin Airport after a light plane crashed in a suburban area near the airstrip.
Kalorama couple Nat and Lee Guest were among those who bore the brunt of the storms that hit a week and a half ago. Now they are starting to pick up the pieces.
People in Kallista,Sherbrooke and The Patch in Melbourne’s outer east have been instructed not to drink the water at their homes – even after it is boiled – because of contaminants.
The Liberian-registered MV Kanpur will be inspected by Australian authorities after a Georgian national was pulled from the water in Port Phillip Bay and taken into quarantine.
A fire in the popular seaside town of Apollo Bay has swept through several shops.
A man’s body has been found after flames took hold of a house on Melbourne’s bayside.