Jesse Thompson

Heritage laws protect tens of thousands of homes, but some housing advocates argue they could be incompatible with the city’s growing needs.

For decades, housing development in suburban Australia has favoured large family homes with backyards, but experts say there's a growing need for one and two-bedroom dwellings.

Builders will face harsher penalties for not having building insurance, while a bond scheme is on the table for apartment buildings.

The family of Jeffrey Winmar have remembered the Indigenous father of one as "bright, happy and respectable". They want more answer on why he died days after he was arrested by police.

A tenant who says she miscarried after falling through a hole in the floor of her rental home is suing her former landlord and agency for allegedly breaching a duty of care.

Landlords across Victoria say they are selling off their investment properties, citing issues such as rising costs and changing regulations as those pushing them away from housing.

Huge demand and dwindling supply has made it a tough market for renters, and new data shows more and more tenants with serious rental problems are turning to the legal system to solve them.

The one-bedroom apartment was advertised as a delightful ground-floor apartment with its own private courtyard. Within a day the price was raised twice due to increased market interest.

Ashlee Frost, 35, has been sentenced to more than three years behind bars after stealing from a pharmaceutical giant and posing as a travel agent and selling travel credits that didn't exist.

A mother tells the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide her son was "in hospital dying" when he was medically discharged from the Navy against his will.

Mary Nigro had a feeling Victorian Labor's branch stacking probe would not track down the person responsible for forging her dead father's signature. She was right.

After former Melbourne school principal Malka Leifer was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing two students in her care, one victim told reporters outside court of the "lifelong" effects of the offending.

Melbourne Water discussed "tweaking" the parameters of the Maribyrnong River flood review based on input from its insurer, documents reveal

The 46-year-old employee, Daryn Raines, was fatally crushed while operating a turret punch — a large piece of moving machinery used in the production of perforated metal — at a Melbourne factory in February 2021.

Truck driver Matthew Livingston, 44, is handed a 12-and-a-half year prison sentence for a string of driving charges, with prosecutors alleging he drifted in and out of sleep in the lead-up to the 2021 Diggers Rest crash.

A Melbourne-based chemical waste recycling company is fined millions for an enormous industrial fire in the city's north that took days to bring under control, but the judge presiding over the matter concedes that money may never be recovered.

Victorians who have fallen through the cracks in the wake of the Porter Davis collapse are calling for the government to include them in a $15 million insurance scheme.

Australians without a home discuss where they bed down each night — and how they came to be there. 

A party hire business owner who concocted a plan to target his industry rivals with a string of arson attacks has been sentenced to more than a decade behind bars.

Residents in a riverside retirement village that flooded last October, extensively damaging dozens of homes, say they were staggered to learn the village had a limit of $5 million for flood insurance.

A serial rapist will spend decades behind bars for spiking the drinks of female colleagues, sexually abusing them while they were passed out and posting images of the attacks online.

As residents along Melbourne's Maribyrnong River attempt to rebuild after last year's shocking floods, their local council fears they could be setting themselves up for future devastation with "like-for-like" rebuilds in the flood-prone area.

Victoria's energy sector regulator is being urged to reconsider a power price proposal that could increase energy bills across the state, worsening the cost-of-living crisis.

Everyday Australians are not alone in feeling the interest rate pinch, as the Victorian government sees its interest repayments expand.

Italian-Australian communities are facing uncertainty over whether they'll be able to keep their annual sauce-making tradition this year due to a tomato shortage.