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With Origin III just 19 days away, Xavier Coates limped off the field as the Storm edge past the Raiders in Melbourne.

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

Music is the centre of Megan Burslem's life, but it wasn't until life threw her a few bumps that she realised music's power to help her be more comfortable with feeling the big feelings. 

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

The craft beer scene's biggest festival of the year became an inadvertent staging point for the many intersecting issues facing the industry. Brewers tried to put on a brave face but admitted "vibes were down."

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

A Perth man is released on strict bail conditions after appearing in court accused of starting up "evil twin" wi-fi networks, to get the personal details of users at multiple locations, including airports across Australia.

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

ABS data reveals a big lift in household wealth driven by Australia's white-hot property market.

Nuclear power is in the headlines a lot right now. So we ask energy experts to break down exactly what it is.

LeBron James is a step closer to one of his major dreams being realised after his oldest son Bronny was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers, but not before a spectacular threat involving Australia was sent out by his agent.

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

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.

A former councillor has avoided prison for tampering with voters' ballot papers to elect himself to local government.  

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

Only two New South Wales sides have won deciders on Queensland soil but after their thumping win in Melbourne, this year's Blues are certain they can climb Origin's highest mountain. 

A Melbourne church is defying the Pope with a centuries-old service in a dead language. Why are so many young Catholics travelling hours to get there?

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

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".

We sit down with the Naarm/Melbourne singer-songwriter to chat about her "wonky" new album, the song she couldn't stop playing last year, and what she's reading, watching and eating right now.

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

More often than not, the New South Wales halfback spot can be a poisoned chalice but under the harshest of scrutiny Mitchell Moses produced the game of his life. 

New South Wales has the momentum after putting Queensland to the sword in State of Origin II in Melbourne, but the Maroons do not have to think too far back for the last time they bounced back from a loss like this.

After a downturn during the pandemic, foreign buyers are back. Most are coming from China, Hong Kong and India, with the value of transactions hitting almost $5 billion over the past financial year.

At the end of a five-week trial, prosecution and defence arguments differed so vastly that the jury were left with just two options: murder or acquittal.