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Two Sunshine North men were killed when the factory they were sleeping in was destroyed by a fire that police believe was deliberately lit.

The idea of an underground train station at Melbourne Airport should no longer be entertained, says the man charged with getting the stalled project moving.

The Victorian health minister says she has asked health services to "take a good look at where they are spending their money", but emphasised the government was "not asking hospitals to stop any care whatsoever".

The 51-bed hospital in Melbourne's western suburbs had been open for just over a year before announcing its closure and the appointment of administrators.

A panel shop fire at Sunshine North quickly engulfed a nearby factory where two people were sleeping.

Melbourne Airport doubles down on its demand that the long-awaited $10 billion Airport Rail Link feature an underground station, saying a delay to the project meant it was achievable.

Police investigate a collision involving off-road motorcycles that claimed the lives of two teenagers in Melbourne's outer north-west.

Alisha Fagan, who caused the death of 69-year-old grandfather Sedat Hassan in a 2022 crash, will be eligible for parole in less than six months.

The Australian Electoral Commission has begun printing 13 million pamphlets containing the Yes and No cases for the upcoming referendum on the Voice to Parliament.

Two boys aged 17 and 18 have been charged with various offences following a brawl in Sunshine last month during which a teenager was fatally stabbed.

A 17-year-old boy is charged with murder over the stabbing of teenager Pasawm Lyhym in an altercation between two groups at Sunshine, in Melbourne's west, this month.

Detectives investigating the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Pasawm Lyhym are looking for a 17-year-old boy who has not returned home since the incident last week.

A teenage boy stabbed to death at a train station in Melbourne's west on Thursday has been remembered as a good and kind person.

Homicide squad detectives launch an investigation after a 16-year-old boy is stabbed to death near a train station in Melbourne's west.

A report calls for local governments to be given more funding and responsibility in getting people off the streets.

Firefighters say the cause of a blaze that burned through buildings in Melbourne's west and prompted a watch-and-act alert is being treated as suspicious.

In Melbourne's sprawling western suburbs, a lack of tree cover can make the summer heat unbearable. But work is underway to build a greener, cooler future.

Public schools are allowed to offer cash incentives to attract staff, but as a teacher shortage bites, some fear the practice is creating an "arms race" that leaves poorer state schools behind.

Headlines around the 2018 state election focused on the threat of so-called "African gangs" – leaving a mark on the community it tarnished and the Liberal Party.

Headlines around the 2018 state election focused on the threat of so-called "African gangs", and it's left an enduring mark – on the community it tarnished and the Liberal Party trying to win majority support so it can form government.

The Coroners Court of Victoria is told Nish Cash, a proud Jingili woman and respected artist, called triple-0 an hour and 40 minutes before emergency services arrived.

Police believe the female driver lost control of her vehicle while parking it before crashing it into a childcare centre in Melbourne's north.

A 66-year-old man's death could have been prevented if he did not have to wait six hours at a Victorian hospital emergency department, a coroner has found.

Police search for a person on the run after a car was shot at and two people were arrested Melbourne's north-west.

A fire at the Sunshine Landfill was identified in November 2019, but the owners of the tip say it won't be fully extinguished until the end of the year.