It speaks much for the centre of growth and vision in this country to compare the political difficulties that arise over plans for a 2nd Sydney Airport, and the general enthusiasm for a 3rd Melbourne Airport. The push for the selection and …
MELBOURNE’S future could be as grim as Detroit’s if planning for population growth keeps stalling. Major planning decisions needed to be made now or the city’s next generation would face a crisis, Committee for Melbourne chief Andrew MacLeod told the …
daytime temperature below 18 degrees. The low that formed last night, has drawn cold air from the Southern Ocean and is directing it towards the nation’s southeast. As the system deepened the winds strengthened, reaching peak intensity during the morning …
Industrial action that would have shut down half of the Port of Melbourne for 48 hours from Sunday night has been called off, the wharfies’ union says. About 500 DP World stevedores were to stop work in Melbourne for 24 hours from 10pm (AEDT) on Sunday …
A teenager was impaled through the stomach with a piece of metal when a car careered through a roadside guard rail and down an embankment, stopping just short of a lake in Melbourne’s north. The teen was a passenger in the car that lost control as it …
RESCUERS had to work for more than an hour to free a motorist who was impaled on his handbrake in a crash in Melbourne’s north today. Ambulance paramedics say the man became impaled and trapped when his van and a truck collided at the intersection of …
Flemington’s iconic 2012 Melbourne Cup on Tuesday November 6 is shaping up as an attractive spring carnival option for Gerald Ryan’s classy stayer Ironstein who by a stroke of luck missed last year’s edition of the ‘race that stops a …
FINE weather is expected to draw half a million people to Melbourne’s city centre for a spectacular golden fireworks display on New Year’s Eve. Melbourne will ring in 2012 with a $2.6 million celebration involving ten tonnes of fireworks exploding from 17 …
Melbourne is looking at a hot start to 2012, potentially the hottest start to a year in more than a century, according to weatherzone.com.au. If the city reaches 36 degrees on the first two days of 2012, as the current forecasts suggests, it will be the …
Police are hunting a blade-wielding man who may have been involved with 15 robberies No-one injured yet but police fear it is a only a matter of time Bandit strikes servos and convenience stores ever 24 hours Always uses a knife or tomahawk to steal cash …
