Advocates say a planning tool long used in NSW successfully could help deliver new Melbourne homes faster and reduce the practice of squeezing as much housing out of a development site as possible.

Councils say the controversial loophole allows build-to-rent developers to escape a green space levy.

An “absolute institution” could prove no match for the supermarket giant planning to set up shop next door.

For many drivers, free parking is seen as a right. But as Melbourne’s congestion grows, more councils may introduce user pays.

Nerves are high among soccer clubs in Melbourne’s south-east after three separate incidents, including the firebombing of a car and two blazes that have destroyed clubhouses.

Locals and councils have raised concerns that plans for the Suburban Rail Loop will cause a loss of sunlight and impact wildlife in the suburban sanctuary.

Australia’s busiest port plans to handle even more containers from even more mammoth ships. But some think its time in the inner city might be nearly over.

Australia’s busiest container port is pumping shipping containers onto Melbourne’s roads. And it’s about to get worse.

A family whose property was flooded by overflowing drains has been given sandbags in a situation that highlights a looming danger across the city.

Townhouses and apartments can now be built, with fast-tracked approval, closer to footpaths and neighbours under sweeping changes.

The future of e-scooters in Melbourne is increasingly under threat with Neuron and Lime announcing they will no longer operate in the City of Yarra after they copped a 400 per cent fee hike from counc...

The Victorian government stripped free housing from breast cancer patients and parents of ICU babies months ago, with no alternative system in place.

Once a single-lane road between farms, this is now a major thoroughfare carrying 14,500 cars a day. But locals say crashes, bottlenecks and dangerous manoeuvres prove urgent upgrades are needed.

Victoria’s top planners are warning that suburban activity centres risk becoming places where people don’t want to live if some crucial rules are ignored.

Nicholson Street is one of Australia’s oldest pedestrian malls but traders say it was the wrong move to install a playground.

The bridges over Footscray Road and Dynon Road remain fenced off, forcing cyclists to stay on dangerous roads.

Labor has held the seat of Werribee since 1979, but with crime on the rise and traffic eating hours of residents’ days, can the party hold onto its traditional heartland?

From cabanas to jet-skis, off-leash dogs and loud music, it seems everybody has an opinion on beach behaviour. With soaring beach visitor numbers, experts say we are facing a known phenomenon: the “tr...

The Age explores what’s driving the boom in Melbourne’s western suburbs, and challenges some of the common assumptions about the area.

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Campaigners push for filters to be installed on the project’s enormous vents in Melbourne’s inner west as pollution fears grow.

New research into impractical cooking areas in modern apartments has prompted calls for stricter standards to ensure the state government’s high-rise ambitions deliver quality, liveable housing.