For the first time in its 147-year history, Queen Victoria Market fruit and vegetable traders went on strike on Tuesday. The traders are unhappy about additional electricity and waste charges …

The long-running case of Perry Kouroumblis, accused of the 1977 murders of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett, has been adjourned to allow time for DNA analysis. The committal hearing set …

Australia should not impose retaliatory trade restrictions on the US, the head of treasury has warned, after Treasurer Jim Chalmers met with US counterparts to make his case for a …

Labor’s big health promise might have arrived too late, an expert says, as the party appears to be shifting strategies to stem bleeding support. Australians remain uninspired by Labor, with …

Those attending the Antipodes Festival this weekend will have a chance to learn more about the Metro Tunnel and West Gate Tunnel at the More Ways to Move Roadshow. Victoria’s …

Wetland bird hunters in Victoria will have a longer duck shooting season and can take home more birds under new rules. The Victorian duck hunting season will begin on March …

Doctors will no longer be muzzled from initiating voluntary assisted dying conversations with terminally ill patients under long-called-for law changes. A “gag clause” that banned Victorian practitioners from initiating a …

Thousands of public service jobs are set to be slashed as a debt-riddled state eyes billions of dollars of budget savings. A review of the Victorian public service has been …

Kon Kritikos would do anything for his loved ones. The grandfather’s warmth would light up any room he entered, his nephew told a court. When his de facto daughter-in-law needed …

A Melbourne mother-of-five has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after being caught smuggling 7kg of cocaine and heroin into Taiwan. Debbie Voulgaris, 58, was arrested on December 10, …