Reservoir

Pedestrian dead after lying on road

Caroline Zielinski Police believe a woman was lying on a road in Melbourne's north before being run over and killed overnight.

Banned after being a 'victim of racism'

Peter Hanlon After the incident that followed last Sunday's game, Terrie Seymour told the Reservoir Colts under 15s to take a leaf out of Adam Goodes' book and speak up if they had been wronged.

Fare go: what taxi industry really wants

Jill Stark More than 1000 Victorian taxi owners and drivers turned out to a meeting in Melbourne amid concerns that government plans to radically overhaul the industry will force some operators out.

Two decades on, murderer's mutterings land him in strife

Mark Russell For more than 20 years, he got away with the murder of his wife. Then he started talking to himself about the case.

Police nab bikies in dramatic arrest

Dan Oakes Police arrest Bandidos sergeant-at-arms Toby Mitchell in a dramatic interception on a South Melbourne street on Wednesday afternoon.

Recordings tainted murder case, accused claims

Adam Cooper An elderly man convicted of the cold-case murder of his ex-wife has appealed against the verdict on the grounds that a jury should not have heard recordings of him talking to himself about where her...

Fish and chip knife attack 'bizarre'

Mark Russell Armed with a knife in one hand and a pack of fish and chips in the other, Gregory Currell approached a man walking his dog and demanded money.

Cyclist tries to snatch girl, 9

Adrian Lowe and Nino Bucci Police are investigating whether the attempted abduction of a nine-year-old girl in Melbourne's north could have been carried out by the same man who attempted to sexually assault a woman in the area...

Female fight club tackles issues facing warriors

Deborah Gough Shantelle Thompson is a mother to three young children and a graduate teacher, but six days a week she becomes Barkindji Warrior, Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter.

'Evidence lacking' to charge former police

Steve Butcher There is insufficient evidence to charge two former Victorian policemen implicated in the murder of self-confessed 'vampire' Shane Chartres-Abbott, the case's chief investigator has told a Melbourne...

'Vampire' gigolo murder brazen and brutal, court hears

Steve Butcher The murder of a male gigolo and self-confessed "vampire" while on trial for the rape and mutilation of a woman was brazen and conducted with "frightening brutality," a Melbourne court has heard.

Ex detectives were subject of legal brief in 'vampire' case, court hears

Steve Butcher A brief of evidence against a former and a then-serving Victorian police officer implicated in the murder of a self-confessed vampire and male prostitute was sent to the Office of Public Prosecutions...

Murderer implicates ex-policemen in case

Steve Butcher A triple murderer turned prosecution witness implicated two former police in killing of rapist.

Sanctions hit rogue aged care facilities

Cameron Houston The federal government has suspended funding and imposed a range of sanctions against several Melbourne retirement homes that were found to have compromised the welfare of elderly residents.

Charges laid over bikie kidnap attempt

Three men linked to outlaw motorcycle gangs have been denied bail after police investigating drug trafficking foiled an alleged kidnap attempt in Melbourne's north east.

Fury as minister slices into golf course row

Richard Willingham Planning Minister Matthew Guy's intervention to approve a controversial golf course development is set for the Supreme Court, after he gave the green light to the proposal days before an appeal was...