Cassandra Morgan

In a lecture theatre inside one of Melbourne’s premier design schools, Jeremy McLeod took the podium – and rattled the room.

Melbourne’s cultural scene is thriving. That doesn’t mean artists don’t face challenges – even when they’re homegrown superstars.

As temperatures rise, Melbourne will shift towards a nighttime economy. We trial a new app which makes walking safer and more comfortable.

Sydney’s deputy mayor shares her vision for the future of Melbourne, where she grew up, as she prepares to take part at The Age’s Melbourne Assembly civic forum.

Though the number of live music venues across the city has dropped by 20 per cent in five years, The Corner Hotel is celebrating a milestone few others have reached.

A beloved son was given another resident’s medication at a Melbourne group home. His family says questions remain over his death and Footscray facility’s closure.

Murray Wight watched a man die inside a Melbourne theatre. A year later, he’s determined to prevent the same scene from playing out again.

Once-grand inner-Melbourne town halls have been marooned in history and largely left to rot for almost three decades, but there is hope that new life awaits them.

Australia now requires strict age verification for anyone wanting to access pornography websites. But will this really stop children from seeing online porn?

Victoria’s last fatal shark attack has been misreported for years. Four decades after a windsurfer’s disappearance, a librarian, a scientist and a former police sergeant reveal the truth.

He is the Geelong boy who built a Toorak palace on grit and gourmet burgers. But when lockdowns silenced the city, Chris Lucas found his voice, trading the dining room for the war room to challenge a premier.

The famous street is facing a sink-or-swim battle, decades after its heyday when visitors crammed in to dance on the road and have their first taste of pizza.

Once at the top of Melbourne’s retail hierarchy, this mighty strip took a mighty tumble – before a “sensorial wonder” moved in.

Once Melbourne’s liveliest areas, these city zones have been transformed after they were abandoned by the CBD’s vanishing 20 per cent.

The faint echoes of the Magdalene laundries still linger in the convent’s walls. Some former residents have been brave enough to return; others will never cross the threshold again.

In Melbourne’s hidden history, there’s a slew of powerful women who shaped the city – and were never recognised with a “hero’s journey”. Sita Sargeant is now revealing them.

He was a child of tragedy, then an academic star. Now, Kim Ramchen – the son of a millionaire once suspected in his model wife’s disappearance – stands accused of stabbing his school principal, bringing his family name back before the courts.

Keysborough Secondary College principal Aaron Sykes is recovering at home a day after a staff member stabbed him, plunging his school into lockdown.

In an afternoon at Coles Prahran, one of Victoria’s most targeted supermarkets, The Age witnessed firsthand how retail workers navigate a constant stream of theft, confrontation, and abuse.

Retail workers in Victoria are contending with a frightening unknown amid a crisis of violence, abuse and knife crime.