‘I see her face every time I close my eyes’:Three-year-old killed in school drop-off nightmare
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Tragedy

‘I see her face every time I close my eyes’:Three-year-old killed in school drop-off nightmare

The girl was crossing a busy suburban road with her family when she was struck by a car,later dying in hospital. Locals say the road,close to schools,is notorious for accidents.

  • byCassandra Morgan

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How migration is ‘turbocharging’ housing demand on Melbourne’s fringe

How migration is ‘turbocharging’ housing demand on Melbourne’s fringe

The government wants to flip Melbourne’s growth from the fringes to its established suburbs,but it will need to overcome years of migration trends to do so.

  • byAdam Carey
‘Disrupt the weapons’:Woman arrested as protest against military expo blocks West Gate
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Protests

‘Disrupt the weapons’:Woman arrested as protest against military expo blocks West Gate

An anti-war protester has been arrested after she “affixed” herself to a car decorated to look like a reptile,which blocked traffic ahead of a military exposition in Melbourne next week.

  • byHannah Kennelly
Melbourne’s transformation is so rapid that it’s shocking

Melbourne’s transformation is so rapid that it’s shocking

Within 30 years,Melbourne will have to house 8 million people. Every Victorian should know that number now,when we need to start planning for it.

  • byShaun Carney
The no-go zone that will soon make a cross-city scooter trip impossible
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City life

The no-go zone that will soon make a cross-city scooter trip impossible

Melbourne’s two remaining e-scooter zones have effectively been cut off from one another after a decision by the City of Melbourne to ban hire scooters.

  • byTom Cowie
Express deliveries
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Express deliveries

Electric bike and scooter riders are getting lost on CityLink’s roads and tunnels at least twice a week,with the bulk of them being food delivery workers.

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Speed limit cut to 30km/h on almost every street in two suburbs

Speed limit cut to 30km/h on almost every street in two suburbs

The City of Yarra is also campaigning for limits on exempt roads in Fitzroy and Collingwood – including Hoddle and Nicholson streets – to be reduced to either 40km/h or 60km/h.

  • byRachael Dexter
Gridlock in Creekstone
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Gridlock in Creekstone

Residents of a new estate face daily traffic chaos and extreme delays due to a developer's failure to install traffic lights at an increasingly busy intersection.

Workers still haven’t fully returned to the CBD – but the city doesn’t need them

Workers still haven’t fully returned to the CBD – but the city doesn’t need them

Forget the nine-to-five office crowd – Melbourne city is finally back,but not as we know it.

  • byNajma Sambul andMelissa Cunningham
Serial climate protesters jailed for blocking West Gate Bridge

Serial climate protesters jailed for blocking West Gate Bridge

A Sydney activist is among the three climate demonstrators who allegedly blocked inbound lanes on Tuesday morning,triggering a 25-kilometre traffic jam.

  • byLachlan Abbott andAlex Crowe
Farmer killed,hundreds of thousands still without power after wild storms

Farmer killed,hundreds of thousands still without power after wild storms

A dairy farmer is dead,while Phillip Island and its surrounding communities remain without electricity after wild storms battered Victoria on Tuesday.

  • byBroede Carmody,Benjamin Preiss andLachlan Abbott