Victoria

A Melbourne community is reeling after a 15-year-old and a 12-year-old were slain in an alleged targeted machete attack.

Police say the brutal stabbing deaths of two boys aged 12 and 15 were committed by up to eight masked male offenders, and have been questioned about reports that one boy was mutilated.

Victoria Police have revealed the last confirmed sighting of alleged cop killer Dezi Freeman and have announced a huge reward for anyone who knows where he is.

Victoria Police has announced a $1m reward for information leading to the arrest of alleged cop killer Dezi Freeman after 12 days on the run.

A man who claimed he took a loaded revolver into the MCG to protect himself will remain in custody for at least another five months.

The family of a young neo-nazi charged over an alleged attack on Indigenous activists at Melbourne’s Camp Sovereignty have publicly disowned him, saying they are ‘utterly devasted’ over the choices he’s made. 

Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart’s brother has urged mourners to remember the fallen officer ‘for the way he lived, not the way he died’.

There are fears self-proclaimed ‘sovereign citizen’ and accused cop-killer Dezi Freeman could be dead and may never be found.

A 27-year-old woman is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed in Wyndham Vale.

A 23-year-old man has been charged after police allege he disrupted the ANZAC Day dawn service at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance.

A Belgian-born police officer will be farewelled with full honours after he died doing his job, as the hunt for his accused killer continues.

Two women have been killed in a harrowing late-night crash on a Melbourne freeway, after stopping in the traffic to try and help an injured kangaroo.

AARON PATRICK: After visiting Israel, a Melbourne mother decided she needed to explain why Australia’s Jews aren’t directly confronting a wave of hostility from both ends of the political spectrum.

The three-time premiership-winning coach confronted three offenders, one of whom tried to stab him, while his wife was inside their home.

Here’s all the details you need to know as Erin Patterson prepares to learn her fate.