Richmond coach Terry Wallace says his side has improved vastly since last season's 157-point drubbing by Geelong. The two sides meet at the MCG again today with the top-of the ladder Cats still...

The man was standing in the middle of High Street, Drysdale, when he was hit by the southbound delivery truck at 4.30am. Police said the man, believed to be a local, died at the scene. The truck...

Port Adelaide coach Mark Williams is predicting his key forwards will prove a huge headache for Hawthorn's defenders in Launceston this afternoon. Logic says prolific Hawks forward Lance Franklin...

A woman arrested in Victoria's south-west will be extradited to South Australia to face sentencing on animal cruelty charges. Seventy-four-year-old Margarete Higham, formerly of Linden Park, SA,...

A man had to be dragged from a burning house at Brunswick East in Victoria overnight. The fire broke out at the weatherboard home in Blyth Street at about 3.30am AEST, destroying the kitchen and...

, this isn't where or when you'd expect to meet your maker -- or see anyone else doing so. But for two young blokes, a driver aged 18 and his 20-year-old passenger, death came to Carlton yesterday. ...

AWARD-winning British acting hard man Ray Winstone will play Irish horse trainer Dermot Weld in a made-in-Melbourne movie about jockey Damien Oliver's emotional 2002 Melbourne Cup...

The nation's biggest supermarket operator said the recent fall in farm costs had been passed on to shoppers through lower prices. Mr Luscombe said that in April the retail group's annual price...

The retail giant held an open casting for parents to bring along their babies and dazzle the judges for the chance to star in the summer advertising campaign. More than 2500 people lined up outside...

The Restricted Breed Panel is overturning two in three council decisions to destroy Victoria's most aggressive dogs, leaving them to breed and roam unchecked. Panel members have quit in frustration...

His lawyers could argue he should not have been flown back to Melbourne with an appeal still pending. Mokbel's lawyers in Greece appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in a bid to stop...

The 18-year-old, who had two passengers in his older model Holden Commodore, clipped a parked Honda sedan on Lygon St, near Palmerston St, about 2pm. Police say the driver was killed on impact while...

PARTY doctor Richard George Young is being investigated over allegations he received sexual services from a prostitute during her medical consultations at a Port Melbourne...

Wheatley, who has served less than a year of his maximum 2 1/2-year sentence, will be met by his wife, Gaynor, at Beechworth Correctional Centre to serve out five months of his minimum term at home. ...

Williams, a convicted drug trafficker and ex-wife of killer Carl Williams, was thrown out of a swish city restaurant during a gangland tour with Nova 100's Hughesy and Kate. The promotion, which...

John Cuthbert Collingwood, 58, who claimed he blacked out at the wheel of his 4WD as he drove along Centre Rd, Bentleigh, was jailed yesterday for nine months. His car struck Joan Barnes, 67, as she...

The Yarram Football Club was to play Wonthaggi in four grades of football and six grades of netball today. Yarram president Peter Jenkins believed the Wonthaggi Power was unsuited to the Alberton...

A PILOT project to test Victoria's planned $3.1 billion desalination plant near Wonthaggi will go ahead after environmentalists yesterday lost a court...

The truck had been travelling toward Geelong near Avalon Rd when it lost control and ran off the road, rolling on to its side. A man in his 30s was thrown from the burning vehicle and was...

The compliance evaluation, which opened to tender this week, follows criticisms that state and local governments have passed the buck on policing last year's tough new regulations. Since July 1 last...

The arrest follows the conviction of a couple in Adelaide Magistrates' Court this month on 11 counts of animal cruelty. They had failed to attend court and were convicted in their absence, but...

Jessica Jacobs' career Mrs Jacobs collapsed in tears, unable to follow her daughter out to the hearse. All around her, teenagers, inconsolable with grief, fell into each others' arms. Tears started...

And of course, lucky me, the target in the basement shooting range of Site Security Training in South Dandenong wasn't firing back. I spent an afternoon testing Victoria Police's venerable Smith...

Several people left courtroom 11 of the Supreme Court yesterday as the crime scene video was played. David Fitchett sat just metres from his now ex-wife, Donna, 49, who has pleaded not guilty to...

Communication is a problem in many families, particularly when it comes to discipline and supervision, a study of 2443 Australian teens and their parents from the Australian Institute of Family...

Cr So said on Wednesday he would take next week off for family reasons, but might now cut short his commitments for budget day. Yesterday Cr So's chief of staff, Kevin Louey, said: "There's now...

THE widow of slain underworld figure Victor Peirce has briefly appeared at Melbourne Magistrates' Court charged with stalking and threatening to...

Collingwood was edging St Kilda by four points at half-time to set up a mouth-watering second-half contest in their round eight AFL match at Docklands this evening. In a see-sawing affair, the Pies...

One of two people convicted of 11 counts of animal cruelty by the South Australian court recently has been tracked down by the RSPCA and arrested by Victorian authorities. Margarete Higham, 76, and...

Quang Minh Tran, 19, who was a member of a group known as the Khoi boys, died from a single stab wound to the chest during the fight with a rival group known as the Richmond boys in November 2003. ...

The Melbourne Storm have added New Zealand front rower Adam Blair to their list of newly re-signed players. Blair inked a three-year deal with the reigning premiers joining fellow representative...

A Melbourne coroner has been unable to work out who murdered a teenager outside a South Yarra nightclub almost five years ago. Nineteen-year-old Quang Minh Tran was stabbed in the chest outside the...

Miracle man Nick Malceski has made the cut and been named in Sydney's 22 for Sunday's clash with Essendon at ANZ Stadium.The 23-year-old defender will take the field just 86 days after undergoing...

Sen Sgt Mick Talbot, of the Major Collision Investigation Unit, confirmed a speeding Commodore with three youths inside was travelling well in excess of the 60kmh Lygon St speed limit when the car...

The lowest price in Melbourne yesterday was 135.9c per litre. the average price in Melbourne was 142.2c per litre. Just think we in gippsland are paying $1:55 to $1:57 for unleaded fuel . Think of...

Two of the AFL's oldest teams have agreed to take a public stance against violence towards women at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in a week's time. Players from Richmond and Essendon will link arms...

Two people have been killed in a car crash at in the inner Melbourne city suburb of Carlton. Emergency services say the men died in a three car collision at the intersection of Lygon and Palemerston...

With rain forecast for much of Victoria this weekend, the State's farmers have their fingers crossed their paddocks might get a soaking. Without rain the outlook for beef producers is looking grim. ...

Q: "I know you've tried to keep the contract extension low-key, but I'm just wondering … how's it feeling personally for you?"A: "It's just business as usual, we've got a game against Port Adelaide...

If you look at the environmental devastation to this once great State, it all has Labor stamps all over it. We can all sit swimming in a toxic bay, dodging the mega tankers dumping their poison...

A Sydney man who escaped from custody more than a year ago has been refused bail. Police allege John Visser escaped from custody after appearing in court on nine drug-related charges in April last...

The North Melbourne Kangaroos are looking for a win in tomorrow night's clash against the West Coast Eagles at Carrara Stadium. Kangaroos defender Josh Gibson says although it is his team's first...

David Fitchett sat in the Supreme Court this morning as a crime scene video was played to a jury. His now ex-wife Donna Fitchett, 49, is on trial, charged with murdering the two boys - Thomas, 11,...

They say the Nova 100 promotion glorifies and glamorises criminals. The station's Hughesy and Kate Show took underworld wife and drug trafficker Roberta Williams and radio competition winners to...

Up to 300 elderly citizens crammed the steps in front of the Flinders St Railway Station and spilled onto the road at the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets to push their message to the Rudd...

Port Adelaide's player development manager Daniel Healy says Northern Territory recruit Marlon Motlop could make his AFL debut later in the year. Motlop was picked in last year's draft along with...

Aged pensioners have gathered on the steps of Flinders Street Station to protest against their treatment in the Federal Budget. The pensioners want the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to increase their...

A Melbourne man who killed a 67 year old grandmother in a hit-run accident three years ago has been sentenced to nine months jail. Joan Barnes was getting into her car at Bentleigh in October 2004...

A community group opposed to the State Government's plan to build a desalination plant at Wonthaggi has lost its latest legal challenge. The 'Your Water Your Say' action group challenged approval of...

The burial blunder was discovered last week when the family of Mary Jane Janet Ryan, 85, requested a final viewing of their cherished matriarch the day before her funeral in Frankston. Bereaved...