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Nanette Ellis's family have been searching for answers for 40 years after she was murdered in her Victorian home.

Police investigating youth gangs in Melbourne seize more than 400 illegal weapons in raids on two collectables stores.

Protests were held in two Melbourne suburbs as residents expressed their concerns about major housing projects.

Labor's historic win in Aston has shown the public sentiment in the quiet and marginalised Chinese community — many were long-term Liberal supporters, but now they are switching, writes Bang Xiao. 

Political experts say the Liberal Party's resounding defeat at the Aston by-election is a result of factional infighting and internal issues that's led to a "monumental shift" as voters abandon the Coalition in droves.

Liberal Leader Peter Dutton is caught in the blustery winds of political change, and the party's compass is still spinning, writes political editor Andrew Probyn.

The Opposition Leader says he must take responsibility for the Liberal Party's devastating loss at the Aston by-election, after claiming during the campaign the result would be a "verdict on the leaders".

Labor has claimed victory in the federal seat of Aston, the first time in more than a century that a government has won a seat from the opposition at a by-election.

Labor has claimed victory in the federal seat of Aston, the first time in more than a century that a government has won a seat from the opposition at a by-election. 

If the Liberal Party loses Aston at today's by-election it will only hold three seats in suburban Melbourne. For the struggling party, even a tight win will be spun as a positive, Richard Willingham writes.

Have you ever met a stranger who quickly turned into a friend and now is part of your family? Philosopher Tim Dean says it's more common than you may think.

The Coalition canvassed its MPs and candidates to decide where to build 47 car parks in Australia. But those car parks don't line up with the country's most congested roads, or its fastest growing areas.

Devotees at a temple in Melbourne's east are in the midst of celebrations that occur once every 12 years, as its status as a holy site is restored with the return of sacred statues.

For months, cinemas around the world have been closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Christopher Nolan's Tenet is expected to be the first blockbuster released to reopening cinemas in a test case for the industry.

Centrelink is being urged to review its privacy policy and invest in some locked filing cabinets after a Melbourne woman was unwittingly given a stack of forms that were already filled out by someone else.

Aboriginal people in Victoria are one step closer to self-determination, after the State Government transferred 470 properties from the Department of Housing into the hands of Aboriginal Housing Victoria.

Police are following a fresh lead in the disappearance of Melbourne school Siriyakorn Siriboon relating to a white station wagon spotted 15 minutes after she was last seen.

Further charges are laid and a total of 18 cars are seized after a Victoria Police crackdown on illegal street racing.

A man hit by an out-of-control car while walking his dog on a footpath in Melbourne's outer-east fights for life in hospital.

A review of the fatal shooting of a taxi driver in Melbourne's south east 22 years ago leads police to believe his death was the result of a planned hit not a robbery gone wrong, as previously thought.

A pedestrian and a motorcyclist die in two separate incidents on Melbourne's roads, bringing Victoria's road toll to 124, four more than the same time last year.

Police are appealing for help to find a nine-year-old girl who is believed to have gone missing at her own will from the Boronia area, in Melbourne's east, 11 days ago.

Two men appear in a Melbourne court over the death of Michael Strike whose body was found next to a cemetery in 2014.

A man is charged with the murder of another man whose body was found on the side of a road in Melbourne's north-west.

Melbourne's Heath Decker has won two football finals in one day, flying in a helicopter from an AFL match to a gridiron game.